New Bedford Cultural Council
New Bedford Cultural Council (NBCC) funds programs that promote excellence, access, education, and diversity in the Arts, Humanities and Interpretive Sciences to improve the quality of life for New Bedford city residents.
NBCC ensures that New Bedford’s share of Massachusetts Cultural Council funds are administered fairly and in the best interests of the community.
Contact
newbedfordcc@gmail.com
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Address
PO Box 2027
New Bedford, MA 02741-2027
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Application Information
FY24 Allocation
$140,200
FY24 Local Priorities
Local cultural council (LCC) funds are used to support programs in the arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences. This definition includes the study, pursuit, performance, exhibition, and appreciation of cultural activities in the broadest sense. Each year the New Bedford Cultural Council (NBCC) adjusts its guidelines and criteria based on responses to a community input survey.
To be considered, the proposed project must either take place in New Bedford or directly benefit the citizens of New Bedford. The New Bedford Cultural Council will give priority to grants that have a measurable impact on the New Bedford community through the following:
1. Projects that provide free or low-cost events and programming
2. Projects that provide opportunities for education, enrichment, and skill-building (ie: workshops). These include but are not limited to the subjects of nature, science, and the environment.
3. Projects with a focus on inclusivity, diversity, or local history.
4. Projects offering outdoor concerts and festivals, public art and performances, and gallery/museum exhibits.
5. Projects that provide opportunities and offer support to individual, emerging or established visual, literary, and performing artists and filmmakers.
FY24 Local Guidelines
LOCAL COUNCIL GUIDELINES:
1. The NBCC will only accept applications submitted online. No paper applications will be accepted.
2. This is a direct grant program. Award money will be available to you ahead of your project, under the guidelines outlined in your award letter.
3. Grant requests must be between $250-$4,000 per application. The NBCC looks more favorably on applicants who pursue additional funding sources to support their projects. Food, lodging, and fund-raising are not funded by NBCC.
4. Applications from applicants must be capped at $12,000 per grant cycle (ie: you many apply for 3 grants of $4,000 or 6 grants for $2000, etc.)
4. If the budget includes salaries or stipends, attach a detailed breakdown of the allocation of funds for salaries on a separate page. Project locations (i.e. performance venue/gallery space) must be secured in advance of the application. Please attach confirmation letters from the venue or any letters of support for your project.
5. If individuals or an organization collaborate on a single application, one member of the collaboration must be designated as the lead applicant for fiscal management purposes.
6. The Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) and the LCC must be credited by using the MCC’s credit logo or credit line. We encourage grant recipients to use both the MCC logo and the credit statement, but you are only required to use one. Logos are downloadable from this site. The logo must be produced as a unit without alteration.
The credit line is as follows:
“This program is supported in part by a grant from the New Bedford Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.”
FOR SCHOOLS THAT ARE APPLYING
1. Any field trip that fits with your class curriculum is eligible to be funded. Some examples of trips we’ve funded in the past are: trips to shows at the Zeiterion, the Rotch-Jones-Duff House, the Museum of Science in Cambridge, etc. In your application, please describe how this trip/program directly connects or relates to classroom learning.
2. Schools organizing the field trip are eligible to apply, as well as cultural organizations hosting the field trips. Using the online application, please insert the name of your school in the “applicant” field and your contact name in the “contact name” field.
3. There is no set maximum on the amount that a given school can receive for field trips. However, the amount that we will be able to give to each school will depend on the number of overall requests and the amount of money we receive.
How Grant Recipients Are Paid
Direct Grants
FY24 Funding List
Name | Project Title | Amount |
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3rd Eye Youth Empowerment, Inc. | 3rd Eye Open | $3,060 | AHA! New Bedford | AHA! Seaport Sessions | $3,600 | AWEgmented Inc. | Digital Abolition Row Park | $3,060 | Andrews, David | Wampanoag Social | $2,600 | Anello, Andrew | New Moon Projects: BodyBodyBody, Riverside Beats, and New Moon Roller Disco | $3,060 | Angeley, Jeffrey | "Find Your Voice" Teen and preteen open mic series | $918 | Angeley, Jeffrey | Old Time Fiddle Session and Community Gathering | $918 | Angeley, Jeffrey | “Balance and Swing” reclaiming the physical language of community through dance | $2,295 | Arakelian, Garine | Colorful Clay Relief Tile | $455 | Ashley, Sarah | Identity Unveiled | $3,600 | Baptista, Candida Rose | KabuMerikanus - The Sum of US: Exploring the Cabo Verde/United States Musical Connection and Legacy | $1,000 | Bean, Cara | Doodle + Tranquility Workshop | $455 | Bishop, Scott | Unexpected Music | $3,060 | Botelho, Alyssa | Sweet Freedom | $3,060 | Bridgewater Antiphonal Brass Society, Inc. | Old Fashioned Brass Band Concert | $338 | Cannizzaro, Peter | Gollywobbles Circus Show | $413 | Co-Creative Center, Inc. | Co-Creative Sessions Season 4 | $3,600 | Coastal Foodshed, Inc. | Showcasing Local Musicians & Local Food | $3,600 | Community Boating Center, Inc. | Rising Waters at CBC | $950 | Connolly-Masson, Margaret | Literacy and Creativity in the City | $2,998 | Downtown New Bedford, Inc. | 2024 Holiday Stroll | $3,060 | Dream Out Loud Center, Inc. | The Student Showcase | $2,600 | Easton Children's Museum, Inc. | Fossil Discoveries | $268 | Enloe, Stephanie | Trash to Treasure - Free Art Workshops at NB Library | $2,000 | Ethnic Arts Center of Somerville, Inc. | Madeiran Musical Traditions Alive!-Puppetry & Stories of My People | $1,760 | Evans, Midori | Artists Share! | $2,000 | Evans, Midori | Writing and Uncertainty | $2,000 | Fazio, Rhonda M | Seafood at Sunset | $975 | Frangiadis, Anthi | Johnny Cake Hill: Music, Art & Culture | $3,060 | Gallery X, Inc. | Gallery X Unplugged | $2,295 | Hamelin, Richard L. | Clay Gnome | $367 | John B. Devalles School | Zeiterion - Our Revolution | $250 | Keith, Michelle | New Bedford Clean Ups - Antitrash Awareness | $1,148 | Kennedy-Donovan Center, Inc. | Recreational Activities for Day Habilitation Participants | $1,878 | Knutsen, Katherine | Free Figure Drawing | $2,496 | Knutsen, Katherine | The Siren | $2,000 | MCLEAN, MICHAEL | Stove Boat Concert Series | $3,060 | MUSIC Dance.edu | I am Autistic I am Fantastic -- The Musical | $444 | MUSIC Dance.edu | Hip Hop Chair Dance for Seniors! -- a dance series | $325 | Martell, Scott | Magic and Illusion Workshop | $455 | Massachusetts Design Art & Technology Institute, Inc. | Transform 2024: Designing, Upcycling, and Making Public Art with Local Youth | $3,060 | Nelson, Alanna | Sippizine | $383 | New Bedford Ballet Foundation, Inc. | Building Healthy Communities Through Dance | $2,700 | New Bedford Ballet Foundation, Inc. | Hansel & Gretel, Opera Meets Ballet | $383 | New Bedford Economic Development Council, Inc. | Seaport Art Walk | $3,600 | New Bedford Economic Development Council, Inc. | ArtWeek SouthCoast | $574 | New Bedford Festival Theatre, Inc. | New Bedford Festival Theatre Summer Academy | $3,600 | New Bedford Festival Theatre, Inc. | NBFT & NBSO present Broadway on the Lawn | $3,600 | New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center, Inc. | Spotters, Strikers, and Swordfish | $3,060 | New Bedford High School Drama Club | NBHS Drama Club presents A Musical Theatre Revue & SIX: Teen Edition | $3,060 | New Bedford Historical Society, Inc. | The Makanda Project/Jazz and the Music of Langston Hughes | $3,060 | New Bedford Museum and Art Center, Inc. | Friyay | $3,060 | New Bedford Museum and Art Center, Inc. | Movie Nights with Mocha | $2,600 | New Bedford Museum and Art Center, Inc. | Twirl & Whirl | $3,060 | New Bedford Parks, Recreation & Beaches | Filming of Indigenous Cultural Fair | $2,600 | New Bedford Parks, Recreation & Beaches | Boston Museum of Science Field Trip-Full STEAM ahead | $3,060 | New Bedford Roots and Branches Festival | New Bedford Roots and Branches Festival | $3,420 | Old Colony Historical Society | Passport to History 2024 | $325 | Old Dartmouth Historical Society | Whales Today, Squid Dissections, and History on the Hill Programs | $2,295 | Old Dartmouth Historical Society | NBWM vacation week programs | $3,060 | Our Sisters' School, Inc. | Zeiterion Performance & Transportation | $2,310 | Practice Best Practice, Inc. | Practice Best Practice Workshops | $3,150 | ROTH, Julia | The Soul Expressions Project | $3,060 | Roberge, Mandy H. | Henna at the Library | $598 | Rodden Walker, Katy | Community Blooms | $3,600 | Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum, Inc. | Shakespeare in New Bedford 2024 - Twelfth Night | $1,989 | Round The Bend Farm, Inc. | Powwow 2024 | $2,000 | Song Keepers, LTD | The Thump & Soul Sessions | $2,000 | South Coast Almanac, LLC | Transcendentalists, Ralph Waldo Emerson & New Bedford | $727 | South Coast Almanac, LLC | Mapping Acushnet Avenue to Begin a Career: John Bullard's Hometown | $650 | South Coast Children's Chorus | Songs of the Sea | $3,060 | SouthCoast Children's Theatre, Inc. | SCCT Presents "Finding Nemo Jr" | $1,000 | Southeastern Massachusetts Educational Collaborative | Celebrating Differences | $3,060 | Spinner Publications, Inc. | The Goat Lady of Lucy Little Road | $2,000 | The Greater New Bedford Choral Society, Inc. | Greater New Bedford Choral Society's 2023-24 Season | $1,500 | The New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance, Inc. | Terrapin Head Start for the Classroom | $693 | Thomas, Patricia | Culture*Park Playwriting Lab | $995 | Wells, Alison | Art & Music | $1,430 | Whaling History Alliance, Inc. | 2024 WHA Summer Concert Series | $3,060 | Winning, Nicole | Mindfulness and Art | $2,000 | YWCA of Southeastern Massachusetts, Inc. | YWkids How to See Program | $765 | York, Matt | Matt York - Songs & Stories: Willie Nelson | $250 | Your Theatre, Inc. | 12th Annual New Bedford JazzFest | $2,000 | Your Theatre, Inc. | Jazz at AHA! | $1,300 | Your Theatre, Inc. | Playwright Original Works Service (POWS) | $1,885 | Your Theatre, Inc. | Your Theatre Improvisation Class and Performance Series | $700 | Youth Opportunities Unlimited | Everybody Moves to their Own Beat: Music, Movement, and Nature | $765 | Zeiterion Theatre, Inc. | The Z’s 2023/2024 Season Free Arts and Culture Programming: Jazz Jam Sessions, Mobile Creative Classroom, an HBCU College Fair, a Battle of the Bands, and a 1920s Fashion Show | $3,060 | the Wizard, Ed | Alchemy Laboratory | $344 | vaughan, laura | The New Bedford Blubber: Writers' Workshops | $3,060 |