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Application deadline: Applications are accepted quarterly during the following periods: March 1 to April 15, May 1 to July 15, August 1 to October 15, and November 1 to December 31, 2024.| Geographic scope: Communities with Walmart stores, Sam’s Clubs, and distribution centers | Grant amount: $250 to $5,000 | Description: Walmart’s Spark Good Local Grants aim to address the unique needs of the communities where Walmart operates in the United States. Grants are provided to organizations that operate locally and directly benefit the service area of local facilities in U.S. communities where Walmart stores, Sam’s Clubs, and distribution centers are located. Grants support a variety of organizations, such as animal shelters, elder services, and community clean-up projects. Eligible applicants include 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations; state or local government entities, including law enforcement or fire departments; K-12 public or nonprofit private schools, charter schools, and higher education institutions; and churches or other faith-based organizations with a proposed project that benefits the community at large, such as food pantries, soup kitchens, and clothing closets.

Geographic scope: National, but with emphasis on California | Description: The Wilhelm Family Foundation supports nonprofit arts organizations with the goal of helping improve the quality of life of artists and creative communities nationwide. While applications are welcome from across the U.S., most grants support organizations in California. The Foundation’s mission is to help expand artists’ access to resources by supporting organizations making creative expression, experimentation, public programming, and discourse accessible to all people, artists and non-artists alike. Grantmaking focuses on nonprofit arts organizations of all types and sizes, with an interest in organizations and programming that prioritize diversity, inclusiveness, community, and freedom of speech. Organizations that utilize art and programming to engage diverse, marginalized, at-risk, or underserved communities of all kinds are of particular interest. Generally, the Foundation’s grants are given to small nonprofit organizations that use their staff, programming, and resources to further dialog around creativity, cultural issues, and environmental and social justice issues for the benefit of artists and the communities in which they operate.

Geographic scope: United States, including U.S. territories. Grant amount: $10,000 to $50,000 |Description: Recordings at Risk, a national regranting program administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources, supports the preservation of rare and unique audio, audiovisual, and other time-based media of high scholarly value through digital reformatting. The grants cover the costs of preservation reformatting for fragile and obsolete time-based media content by qualified external service providers. Eligible media may include but are not necessarily limited to, magnetic audio and video tape, grooved discs, wax cylinders, wire recordings, and film (with or without sound). Applicants must be U.S. nonprofit academic, research, or cultural heritage organizations. (Government units and their agencies focused on cultural heritage and Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages, regional corporations, and village corporations are also eligible.)

The New Jersey Historical Commission (NJHC) is now accepting Declarations of Intent (DOI) to apply for its annual Project Grant program. Applicants can ask for up to $20,000 for eligible New Jersey history proposals. This includes, but is not limited to, research, conservation of historical materials, educational initiatives, editorial and publication projects, exhibitions, media, public programs, and capacity building. For FY 2025, a 1-year pilot initiative will allow prospective applicants with organizational budgets of at least $50,000 to apply directly to the NJHC for project grant support. This is a decrease from the traditional $100,000 threshold of previous years. This budget figure should be based on income received for the applicant’s most recently completed fiscal year. | Guidelines | Declarations of Intent (DOIs) to Apply are due by 3pm on March 8, 2024. Full applications will be due by 3pm on April 12, 2024. | February 28th - Virtual Workshop | March 1 - Virtual Workshop | To register for the in-person workshop, please email Shawn.Crisafulli@sos.nj.gov with your name and/or organization and how many will attend no later than Monday, March 4th.

The New Jersey Historical Commission (NJHC) is now accepting Declarations of Intent (DOI) to apply for its annual Project Grant program. Applicants can ask for up to $20,000 for eligible New Jersey history proposals. This includes, but is not limited to, research, conservation of historical materials, educational initiatives, editorial and publication projects, exhibitions, media, public programs, and capacity building. For FY 2025, a 1-year pilot initiative will allow prospective applicants with organizational budgets of at least $50,000 to apply directly to the NJHC for project grant support. This is a decrease from the traditional $100,000 threshold of previous years. This budget figure should be based on income received for the applicant’s most recently completed fiscal year.

Declarations of Intent (DOIs) to Apply are due by 3pm on March 8, 2024. Full applications will be due by 3pm on April 12, 2024. | February 28th - Virtual Workshop | March 1 - Virtual Workshop | To register for the in-person workshop, please email Shawn.Crisafulli@sos.nj.gov with your name and/or organization and how many will attend no later than Monday, March 4th.

February’s Black Art Matters program will feature a film screening and discussion of The League. The League is a Magnolia Pictures documentary about the formation and evolution of the Negro League through the early 1900’s in America. The film also mentions the Negro League-winning baseball team the Bacharach Giants that existed in Atlantic City in 1928. This 2023 film is rated PG and is 1 hour 43 minutes.| Sunday, February 25 from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m

This session is designed for those who run and work in arts programs within a university setting. When planning and implementing programs and policies, what steps towards accessibility can you develop specifically for your arts programming? How can you be an accessibility advocate for the entire university campus? | Thursday, March 7, 2024 | 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

ArtPride, along with arts advocates from around New Jersey, is heading down to the nation’s capital to meet with elected federal officials to garner support for arts in the state. A delegation of advocates, accompanied by ArtPride staff, will travel to the United States Capitol to represent the state of New Jersey. | Wed, Mar 13, 2024 | 10:00am - 11:00am

Please join New Jersey's arts service organizations, the collaborators of ArtsPay NJ, and the research team at Baker Richards to hear highlights of the survey's findings and learn how to use the public interactive dashboard that will enable workers and employers to compare salary and other information by artistic discipline, job title, budget size, geographic area, etc.

March 8, 2024 10:00am - 11:00 am

The New Jersey State Council on the Arts will host a quarterly teaching artist community of practice. These virtual sessions will allow teaching artists to share their experiences, discuss new opportunities, and connect with the State Arts Council. Through loosely moderated discussions, the sessions will provide an opportunity to network with other New Jersey teaching artists, share the challenges and successes of working in the state, and discuss what teaching artistry could look like as we move into the future.