New Marlborough Cultural Council

Amount Available for Granting in FY 2012

$11,000

Applications for field trips are accepted. (Formerly known as PASS applications.)

LCC Program Guidelines (PDF)

The postmark deadline for applications is October 15

Funding Priorities

In awarding a grant, we favor, but do not limit, grant applications as follows:

GRANTEE: Applications proposed by residents of New Marlborough.

AUDIENCE: Applications that directly benefit residents of New Marlborough.

PROVIDER: Applications in which the creative work is provided by residents of New Marlborough.

VENUE: Applications for events or creative work that will occur within New Marlborough. This includes schools outside of New Marlborough that are attended by students resident in New Marlborough.

TARGETED AUDIENCE: In addition to children, who from past years' experience we expect will be well represented, we seek proposals where teens or elders benefit from the proposed cultural activity.

Local Guidelines

For the 2013 grant cycle, the New Marlborough Cultural Council is pleased to announce that it is offering $XX,XXX through its competitive grant process for programs in the arts, humanities or interpretive sciences. We are grateful to our generous supporters who, through their gifts and participation in Cultural Council events throughout the year make the bulk of these funds available. Of this amount, $X,XXX is provided by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

We welcome grant applications supporting all cultural projects, by individuals or groups, such as artists, schools, teens, organizations or elders.

Here are some examples of projects that could be submitted for consideration:

School field trips.
Important change from previous years: School field trip grants must be applied for on the standard LCC grant application. The NMCC will no longer accept field trip applications on the “short form”.

Performance: Music, Dance, Theater.

Artist in Residency.

Gallery Show and Awards: Prizes for juried artwork winner.

Grant proposals to the New Marlborough Cultural Council must be submitted on the standard LCC Grant Application available at :
http://massculturalcouncil.org/applications/lccapp.html.

All sections of the LCC Application should be completed, including (if not self-evident) who is responsible for sponsoring and managing all aspects of the event, a description of the creative work, publicity plan, resume of artistic provider(s), venue of the event and date of the event.

Organizations wishing to submit applications for multiple related events may submit a single master application, supported by a table fully disclosing the income and expense elements, as well as descriptions, of the separate events. Financial information on page two of the master application must provide aggregate amounts reconciling to the amounts of the several events. Depending on the merit of the individual events, the NMCC may fund all, some or none of the events.

Unless previously arranged, a grant proposal must be self-sufficient and not dependent upon the New Marlborough Cultural Council to provide publicity, venue, dates, etc. Applications failing to provide information covering these basic arrangements will be immediately declined.

When preparing your grant proposal, type the application into the on-line MS Word form and then save your work on your computer (your application is neither saved nor processed by the MCC web site). You must print and mail the PAPER COPY to NMCC, PO Box 206, Mill River, MA 01244-0206