1,000+ Opportunities
Find the right grant
Search federal, foundation, and corporate grants with AI — or browse by agency, topic, and state.
This listing may be outdated. Verify details at the official source before applying.
Find similar grantsOklahoma Arts and the Military Initiative is sponsored by Oklahoma Arts Council. Oklahoma's New and Emerging Arts Leaders (ONEAL) Oklahoma Creative Aging Initiative Oklahoma Online Fine Arts Curriculum Oklahoma Performing Artist Category: Arts & Culture.
Get alerted about grants like this
Save a search for “Oklahoma Arts Council” or related topics and get emailed when new opportunities appear.
Search similar grants →Extracted from the official opportunity page/RFP to help you evaluate fit faster.
Oklahoma Arts Council: Arts and Military About the Oklahoma Arts and the Military Initiative Launched in 2015, the Oklahoma Arts and the Military Initiative is a strategic effort directed at meeting the needs of Oklahoma’s military community through the arts.
With the military community representing nearly 10 percent of the state’s residents, the initiative will allow the Oklahoma Arts Council to extend the reach of its programs to a meaningful segment of the population that has specific needs meriting our support. The initiative is aimed at serving active-duty service members, reservists, National Guard members, family members, and caregivers.
Goals of the Oklahoma Arts and the Military Initiative include: Strengthening connections between the arts and military communities Service to veterans as part of their reintegration and clinical rehabilitation Building the capacity of teaching artists and community organizations throughout the state to provide arts-focused programs to those who have served our country Leveraging the arts as part of the military experience in Oklahoma Oklahoma Arts and the Military Grants The Oklahoma Arts Council offers funding for learning-based and audience-based programs serving individuals who are connected to the military.
Oklahoma Arts and the Military Grants are designed to empower organizations statewide to serve military-connected individuals through the arts. Military-connected individuals include active-duty service members, reservists, National Guard members, veterans, and immediate family members and caregivers.
Learn more about Oklahoma Arts and the Military Grants 'Engaging Veterans through Creative Expression' Catalogue In 2016, as part of the Oklahoma Arts and the Military Initiative, the Oklahoma Arts Council and Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs began a collaboration to offer a pilot arts program to residents at the Norman Veterans Center.
In conjunction with the program, a researcher from the University of Oklahoma's Knee Center for Strong Families was brought in to formally evaluate the program and work with the Oklahoma Arts Council to publish his findings. Titled "Engaging Veterans through Creative Expression," the resulting evaluation catalogue can assist individuals and organizations in providing programming for veterans and military members in their communities.
Download "Engaging Veterans through Creative Expression." Norman (2016) and Lawton (2017) View a video of the pilot arts program at the Norman Veterans Center . In partnership with the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs and Norman’s Firehouse Art Center, the Oklahoma Arts Council piloted a series of hands-on arts learning courses at the Norman Veterans Center in 2016.
Led by professional teaching artists, the program featured photography, creative writing, and visual art courses, each lasting between eight and twelve weeks. A special session in creative writing was offered for residents with dementia.
To evaluate the pilot program, an assessment of the impact of the courses on veterans center residents was conducted by a researcher from the University of Oklahoma's Knee Center for Strong Families at the Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work. Download the evaluation catalogue of the Norman Veterans Center pilot arts program. A second pilot arts program was launched in March 2017 at the Lawton/Ft.
Sill Veterans Center. In addition to multi-week courses in creative writing and visual art, Native American flute music was also offered. With the pilot arts programs serving as case studies, the Oklahoma Arts Council aims to provide a model for public agencies, nonprofit organizations, teaching artists, and community groups to use in serving the military population statewide through the arts.
Oklahoma Arts and the Military Summits As part of the Oklahoma Arts and the Military Initiative, the Oklahoma Arts Council has held numerous arts and military summits as preconference sessions of the biennial Oklahoma Arts Conference.
Summits provide a forum for staff from arts and veterans organizations as well as teaching artists across the state to network and learn how to better serve members of Oklahoma’s military community through the arts.
The agency has held the following summits: Oklahoma Arts and the Military Summit I: Stillwater (2016) Oklahoma Arts and the Military Summit II: Oklahoma City (2018) Oklahoma Arts and the Military Summit III: Lawton (2023) Oklahoma Arts and the Military Initiative 2015 Community Survey Report As part of the first phase of the Oklahoma Arts and the Military Initiative, the Oklahoma Arts Council distributed the Oklahoma Arts and the Military Initiative 2015 Community Survey in order to collect data from across the state to assess the presence of arts programs serving members of the military community.
The survey garnered 400 responses from individuals representing 86 cities and 51 counties across Oklahoma. Survey participants expressed interest in having arts-based programs available that directly serve military personnel and their families.
Respondents cited combat stress and recovery, family support, community support, engagement, physical rehabilitation, and economic empowerment as needs with the potential to be met through arts programs. Oklahoma Arts and the Military: 2015 Community Survey Report For more information, contact our Arts Learning in Communities Director .
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: See the Oklahoma grants portal for complete eligibility requirements. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
Oklahoma Arts and the Military Initiative is funded by Oklahoma Arts Council. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
This opportunity targets applicants in Oklahoma. If your organization operates elsewhere, check the official notice for location requirements.
Start from the official opportunity page linked in this listing — it carries the sponsor's submission instructions.
Jerome Early-Career Project Grants is a grant from Forecast Public Art, funded by the Jerome Foundation, that funds the creation of new public art projects by early-career artists based in Minnesota. Two grants of $8,000 each are awarded annually to support temporary or permanent public artworks anywhere in Minnesota. Projects may be supported by public or nonprofit agencies but private commissions are not eligible, and a secured project site is required at the time of application. The program places special emphasis on supporting BIPOC and Native artists, LGBTQIA+ artists, women artists, immigrant artists, rural artists, and artists with disabilities. Eligible applicants are Minnesota-based individual artists with 2–10 years of generative experience. The application deadline was October 15, 2025.
The Local Cultural Council Program is a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council distributing $1,000 to $10,000 through a statewide network of 329 Local Cultural Councils (LCCs) representing every city and town in the Commonwealth. Each LCC awards funds based on local community cultural needs as assessed by council members. Eligible applicants include artists, nonprofits, schools, and organizations pursuing arts, humanities, and science projects. Applications are submitted directly to local councils and are typically due by October 16. Grants from most LCCs are reimbursement-based. Massachusetts Cultural Council funds the LCCs centrally, which then regrant to community projects.
NEA Grants for Arts Projects runs its second FY cycle with a July 9 Part 1 (Grants.gov) deadline and a July 21 Part 2 (Applicant Portal) deadline. Awards run $10,000–$100,000 against a mandatory 1:1 match, and only 501(c)(3)s with five years of arts programming qualify. Here's how the two-step submission, the match math, and the five-year rule decide who actually gets funded.
Read articleRoundhouse funds rural Oregon and Tribal communities exclusively, across arts, education, environmental stewardship, and social services. Its Spring 2026 Open Call alone moved $1.6M to 125 organizations. The Fall Open Call runs June 10 to August 14, 2026. Here is how a place-based family foundation actually evaluates applicants — and how rural nonprofits should approach it.
Read articleThe OpenAI Foundation opened applications June 15 for $50M in unrestricted, one-time grants to U.S. 501(c)(3) public charities — but a tight $500K–$10M operating-budget band, a 10-percent-of-budget award ceiling, and an explicit ban on fiscal-sponsorship arrangements have made eligibility a sharper filter than the AI-curiosity test most applicants are focused on. Here is the strategic landscape, the three program lanes, and what the October notification timeline means for nonprofits considering a Q4 launch.
Read article