Arts in Health Project Grants is sponsored by New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Funds arts projects integrating with health initiatives; AI art therapy or therapeutic digital art could fit.

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gov/grants/find-grant/arts-health-project-grants) Arts in Health Project Grants Arts in Health Project Grants support arts activities that occur in community spaces and health-based facilities. **Deadline: May 2, 2025** **Project Dates: August 1, 2025 – September 30, 2026** **Match will not be required for FY26 grant applications.

** The Arts in Health project grant category responds to the Arts Council’s recognition that arts and culture facilitate the physical, cognitive, and social -emotional aspects of individual healing, and that when applied to public health, promote healthy environments and policies in communities by promoting empathy, awareness, and social cohesion through shared narrative and aesthetic experiences.

Two tracks are available for this category: Health & Healing and Public Health. Arts in Health Project Grants support arts activities that occur in community spaces and health-based facilities; the latter may include hospitals, social service agencies, rehabilitation/ recovery centers, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, adult day centers, senior centers, veterans’ homes, hospice/grief programs, and correctional facilities.

Email Address: adele. c. sicilia@dncr.

nh. gov * Download the Grant Guidelines . pdf * Download the XLS Budget Form .

xlsx * Download the PDF Budget Form . pdf * How to Complete the Application . pdf Start the Online Application Please watch the video tutorials below for more information.

#### Budget Form Instructional Video (Five Program)") **Length:** 12:26 | **Transcript:**Budget Form Instructional Video (Five Program)") #### Budget Form Instructional Video (Five Program) **Transcript:**Budget Form Instructional Video (Five Program)") #### Budget Form Instructional Video (Five Program) ##### Transcript of video: This tutorial will show you how to use the budget form for five New Hampshire State Council on the Arts grant programs.

This form should be used for the following programs: artists in residence, youth arts projects, arts in health, arts for community engagement, and traditional arts project grants. One of the most important fields on this form is this orange line, where you are required to type your name. This is the name that you used on the application and it's very, very important that you include it.

We receive a lot of applications, a lot of budget forms, and you'd be surprised how many people don't include their names on their budget forms. When we download all of this stuff, if there isn't a name on everything, there's a chance that it could get lost, so please make sure that you include your name on this form. This is the Excel version of the form, and the Excel version is great because it does the math for you.

We do have a fillable pdf version available as well, but that doesn't do the math. Of course you always want to double check your math before you submit the form, but the Excel version is very handy. A little note- do not use dollar signs or commas or dots or periods in your dollar amounts.

If you do that, your budget will not total correctly- the formulas won't work. So as we go into the income section, the first thing you need to type in is how much you're asking for from us. When you do that, if you tab over, you will see that that six thousand dollars that I typed in shows up in the total income section.

Then you want to tell us where the rest of your income is coming from. There are a large number of options here- if you are receiving corporate contributions or contributions from private foundations, you need to list them for us; you need to identify them. If you need more rows, we've given you three rows in each section, if you need more rows, please reach out to your grant program coordinator.

Tell us how many rows you need and we will send you an updated form. It's best for us to update these forms to help you. You updating them may upset the formulas and cause the math not to work.

You want to identify your corporate and private foundations- you're getting money from a PTO, federal government, another branch of state government, any local government support, any cash that your organization is kicking into the project, and then if you have any other revenue you want to list it here as well. And again, we've given you four rows here, if you need more please reach out to us.

So on both the income and expense side of the budget is a column for in-kind support. In-kind support is the value of a support that you are receiving from a volunteer or volunteers. It's important that you tell us this and so you will include that support on both the income and the expense side of the budget.

Let's say you're getting some volunteer help from members of your PTO, and let's say they're going to do advertising for you, they're going to give you that. You want to put in the value of that, and let's say they're going to buy like a thousand dollars worth of ads for you, and they're donating that- instead of giving you the cash, they're going to do it directly.

So you put that in the in kind column, and then you would put it in the expense side of the budget also, because it's an expense. You may not be paying for it directly, but it's being paid for. There's more information here at the bottom of the form about in kind, and if you have more questions about that, please contact your grant coordinator.

So the expense side of the budget is pretty straightforward as well, but we want to know how much of each expense the grant is going to cover and how much is not going to be covered by the grant. So you'll just have to you know go through each expense that you have, and we've given you a number to choose from here, and if you have other expenses we've also given you a good series of rows here to identify what those expenses are.

The page will do the math for you, and you can also include notes. You can include notes on your income side, the expense side, we've got a nice big block that you can type in right here, so if you have notes to explain things a little bit better for us so that we understand your budget, feel free to use those fields. So now I'm going to show you how to save this document as a pdf.

So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to save it as a document and ideally, when you save it, save it as an Excel spreadsheet first, you want to name it, and we suggest that you use your organization's name as the file name.

To save it as a pdf, you're not going to do save as, you're going to go to print, and when the print dialog comes up on your computer, you're going to click pdf, and save as pdf, and when you do that, it will offer you a place to save the document, and, again, name it properly so that it's easy to identify, for you and for us. So that's the budget form.

Please reach out if you have questions; we want to help you fill out this form successfully. Thank you so much.

#### Online Tutorial Video (AIH)") **Length:** 11:24 | **Transcript:**Online Tutorial Video (AIH)") #### Online Tutorial Video (AIH) **Transcript:**Online Tutorial Video (AIH)") #### Online Tutorial Video (AIH) ##### Transcript of video: This tutorial will take you through the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts’ Arts in Health Grant application at submittable. com.

This tutorial assumes that you have created a free account at submittable. com and that you are logged into the system. The first section of the application is the applicant data.

An applicant refers to the organization that is implementing the project. If you are applying with a fiscal agent, you will have to provide that information in section two of the form. All fields that have an asterisk next to them are required.

We want the information that you would figure we would want: the official IRS name of the applicant, and then if you're applying it with a fiscal agent, you want to click this box. We want the applicant email address, snail mail address, daytime phone, website URL, Creative Ground URL, the authorized official's name, and title, and email address, and then we want you to choose an arts discipline.

This is the primary area of the applicant organization's work, and there's a lot to choose from here, and if you have questions about this, reach out to the administrator of this grant program. We have to report this information to the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, and so this kind of information is very, very important and required.

For arts organizations that are applying for this grant, you have to verify that you've had at least one year of arts programming already. The next area is your Unique Entity Identifier. This is a requirement now from the federal government that every organization that receives a grant must have a UEI.

You can't apply without a UEI, and so if you haven't yet applied, we've got a couple of links here- you can go to sam. gov, which is the Federal Government website, or you can also go to our website for some basics about the transition to UEIs.

Non-profit organizations- we want to know the year you were founded, the year you incorporated in the state, whether you have a letter of good standing from the Attorney General if we ask you for it. Also a certificate of good standing from the Secretary of State if we ask you for it. We also want to know the year that you were granted your IRS exemption and that your determination letter is available on request.

We also want to know how many staff you have- full-time, part-time, how many volunteers your organization has. Then we want a fiscal summary- want to know the dates of your current fiscal year and then we want to see three years worth of total income: the past fiscal year, present fiscal year, and projecting into the next fiscal year; same thing with expenses.

If you are applying with a fiscal agent, this is where you would put that information- the official IRS name of the fiscal agent, their DUNS number or UEI. If you're using a fiscal agent and that entity doesn't yet have a UEI, we won't be able to release funds to the fiscal agent until they have a UEI. So again, those same links are right here- sam.

gov and a link to our website.

We also need the snail mail address, daytime phone, website, Creative Ground profile, all of that information about when the fiscal agent, if it's a non-profit, was founded, incorporated; same thing that we were asking for up above, with the letters of good standing, the year granted, the IRS exemption, the determination letter, staff information, fiscal summary- basically exactly what we've asked for in section one.

Section 3 is the grant request information, and so the first thing you want to do is tell us which track this project falls under, because there are two tracks in art in health. Then you want to select, if you are taking the public health track, there are certain priority areas, and you want to choose the one that is closest to what you're planning to do.

If there's a different priority that's not in the drop down for your project, you want to type it into this box. You want to tell us if this is a new or recurring project, how much you're asking for. Then a very clearly stated phrase or sentence, in 25 words or less, describing your project.

We want to know the start and end dates, if there's an event date or dates, we want to know those, who the primary contact or project coordinator is if it's different from the contact information in section one, and that person's email address, and then you're going to choose an arts discipline again, but this time it's for the project; so you'll do that.

You'll tell us how many towns or communities will benefit, how many youth will be engaged, and adults engaged through live arts experiences; so you don't count anything that's happening virtually, remotely, or through recorded events. Then we want some demographic information about who's going to benefit from your project. We want that information by age, by ethnicity, and certain distinct groups.

We also want to know how many artists are directly involved and how many of them are New Hampshire artists. Next, we want accessibility assurances and some information about the facility or facilities where the activities funded by the grant will occur.

So you want to tell us where, the name of the facility, who your ADA coordinator is, whether the facility is accessible to people with disabilities, if accessibility is part of the applicant organization's long-range plan, whether you've done an ADA self-evaluation, and then you're going to upload your completed National Endowment for the Arts brief accessibility checklist, and there's a link here to get it; the link is also in the guidelines.

So you're going to click choose file, a window will open on your computer, you will navigate, it will allow you to navigate to where you have saved the file, you will choose it, and attach it to the application. We want to know whether your organization has established policies and procedures that address non-discrimination against people with disabilities, and whether that information is publicly posted.

We want to know whether you own the facility that the activities will be occurring in; if you don't, we need to know the name of the owner, the address, and the length and expiration date of the lease.

Now we come to the document uploads section, and again, as I just said, it's very, very easy to attach files to this application- just click choose file, a window will open from which you can navigate to where you have saved your files, you will choose the file that you need, and attach it. If you're unclear about that, we have a little video on how to do it and there's a link right here to get to that information.

So you'll upload your narrative, the answers to your narrative questions, and those questions are usually at the end of the guidelines. You'll upload the budget form, and before I go on, I just want to say that we really prefer that all of your documents be in PDF format, that way we won't inadvertently edit one of your documents.

So please convert your word processing documents to PDFs and your budget form as well, and in fact, we have a little video on how to save your Excel budget form as a PDF, and we strongly, strongly encourage you to watch that, because it's not as easy as you think.

We also want a timeline and work plan for the project, a list of your current board or arts advisory committee, the board approved financial statement for non-profit applicants, a one-page project coordinator resume or biography, any information about outside contractors, very important.

We also want three current letters of support that directly relate to the project, any evaluations, assessments, and rubrics that you are using to evaluate the success of your project. Any program materials that you want to attach. And again, with a lot of these, because you can attach multiple files, we suggest that you zip them up into a single zip file, and there's a little video on how to do that at these links.

Program materials- artist worksheet and resume and work samples. Now ideally, you would reference the artists work samples in your narrative with a link to their portfolio page or their Creative Ground profile, but you can attach work samples here. And again, we do prefer that things be zipped- multiple files be zipped.

Section six are certification and assurances- the first one is Covid-19, the next is that you will credit us and the National Endowment for the Arts, there are contractor assurances here, and then finally, there's your certification. This is your electronic signature- you click agree, type in your name and title, and then you click submit.

Now hopefully the system will accept your application- if it does not, that means that you probably didn't fill out a required field and so you'll have to scroll back up and double check that you have filled out all of the required fields. You can also save your draft as you're working and we recommend that you do that. Submittable is a very stable system but it's always a good idea to save your work every five or ten minutes.

So that is the Arts in Health application. Please let us know if you have questions and we look forward to seeing your application. Visit the NH Department of Natural and Cultural Resources **172 Pembroke Road | Concord, NH | 03301** (603) 271-2789 | TTY/TDD 1-800-735-2964 Monday - Friday, 8am - 4pm * NH Arts Learning Network An official NEW HAMPSHIRE government website Your feedback will be used to help improve Google Translate