Organizations may apply to this category only at the invitation of the Council.

The Program offers support to organizations to administer regrant programs that support arts partnerships between schools and cultural organizations or individual artists. Each Local Capacity Building program site serves a specific region of the state and is expected to promote the regrant program, coordinate application and panel review processes, and provide ongoing technical assistance and professional development.

Local Capacity Building programs generally support projects that are small and represent first-time or new forays into arts in education on the part of the school applicants. Each site creates guidelines and application materials within a framework of operational requirements within which all Local Capacity Building program sites must operate. These requirements are outlined in a Procedures Manual.

Eligibility Requirements

A full-time, paid executive director.

A designated, qualified staff member (preferably not the executive director) to serve as coordinator of the program.

Resources to provide appropriate technical assistance, outreach, and professional development opportunities for constituent schools, artists, and cultural organizations in the service area.

Application Instructions

Application Narrative Questions

Artistic/Programmatic

1. Overview
Describe your organization and how it was established.

Managerial/Fiscal

2. Panel and Advisory Committee
List this year's and next year's panelists and their titles, if available. Describe your panelist orientation process. In addition, provide the names and affiliations of the members of your Regional Advisory Committee.

Service to the Public

3. Marketing/Outreach
Describe your marketing and outreach efforts for your LCB program over the past year and any changes planned for the coming year.

4. Evaluation
How do you evaluate your regrant program? Have your evaluations resulted in any changes in the program?

5. Dissemination Efforts
Describe efforts to disseminate promising practices from funded projects to others in your service area.

6. Technical Assistance/Professional Development
Describe your technical assistance offerings and your efforts to provide professional development to both applicants and grantees. Provide information, including the number of attendees at each event, for the past year and describe any changes that are planned for the coming year.

Support Materials

7. Support Materials
Please list all of the support materials and/or work samples you are submitting. These materials are critical to your application's assessment. You may provide a list here or use an eScript for Work Samples to provide your list.

Support Material

Support material must be postmarked, hand-delivered or made available online by the deadline. Please direct them to your appropriate contact at: NYSCA, 175 Varick Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10014 or kmasterson@nysca.org

IMPORTANT NOTE: Refer to the Instructions for Work Samples and Support Materials prior to submission.

NYSCA encourages the submission of Web-based Work Samples and Support Material whenever possible.

1. Two copies of the organization's most recent guidelines and application forms

2. Résumé for the Local Capacity Building coordinator

3. Brief descriptions of funded projects from the last round of grant making