Mini Grants

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Arts Alive is passionate about supporting people with passion and creative ideas to pursue and share creativity and artistry with the community. The organization offers mini grants of up to $250 to artists and creative businesses in the Monadnock region. Applications are accepted in August and September and a jury of local arts leaders and past grantees will review the applications in early October. Arts Alive will distribute grants to selected projects in November.

Through the Mini Grants program, Arts Alive seeks to boost our local creative community, especially those that identify as experiencing financial hardship, in their professional and creative endeavors. We encourage emerging artists to apply as well!

Grants support one or both of the following goals:

• Artists get better at their craft by getting time, equipment, or other support to bring their ideas or creative practice to "the next level"

• The wider community, or specific groups within the wider community, have increased access to meaningful arts experiences

Grants can be used to cover a wide range of costs, including

• travel expenses

• renting a space

• website building

• purchasing or renting equipment or materials

• child or family care

• attending a class or workshop

• marketing a project, workshop, album, or event

• studio renovation

• applying to festivals

• getting takeout dinners for the family for a week while you work on a project

• expenses related to a community event

• fees for installing public art

• hiring a creative collaborator

• documentation of work

Arts Alive raises the bulk of the funds for mini grants online through The New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits’ 24-hour online fundraiser NH Gives in early June. If you would like to make a gift to the program, you still can! Visit our Minigrants Campaign on GiveButter, a secure online donation platform.

APPLICATIONS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED UNTIL AUGUST

There are three sections and you must fill out each section. Some questions are required (marked by a star) others are optional. You must hit the “SUBMIT” button at the bottom of the 3rd section or your application will not be processed.

Section 1: About the project or idea you’d like to use the grant for

Section 2: About you (Required so we can contact/notify you - not used in determining grants)

Section 3: About your creative practice & Demographic info collection (Optional and not used in determining grants)

Don’t forget to hit the SUBMIT button at the bottom of section 3