Statewide Community Regrant Partner funding

Statewide Community Regrant Partner funding is sponsored by New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) via SCR partners. NYSCA distributed funding through local regrant partners across NY State; these partners fund arts programming locally including mental‑health‑related arts.

Statewide Community Regrant Program Overview - CREATE council on the arts • Greene • Columbia • Schoharie Founded in 1977 by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), the Statewide Community Regrant Program (SCR- previously known as the Decentralization Program) was developed to ensure that New York State’s cultural funding reaches every part of the state.

SCR has since become one of the Council’s most effective means of making arts support available to geographically, economically, and ethnically diverse segments of the state’s population. The program serves each of the state’s 62 counties and funds volunteer community organizations as well as established non-profit corporations with paid professional staff.

The program forms the cornerstone of the Council’s partnership with local arts agencies throughout the state, providing a link between the Council and portions of the community that might not otherwise be able to access funding from NYSCA.

In 1986, at the invitation of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), The Council established its Community Arts Grants (SCR) with funding provided by NYSCA to non-NYSCA supported community based nonprofit organizations and individual artists. By 1997, the program grew to include Arts Education and Community Arts Grants for Columbia County in addition to Greene County.

In 2012, The Council accepted and assumed the administration of same programs for Schoharie County, thus providing Re-granting in three counties. SCR funds are re-granted locally by regional and local arts agencies at the invitation of the Council.

SCR enables these designated agencies (SCR sites) to provide project support to a wide-range of professional, vocational and educational arts and culture in their respective communities and to support the creation of new work by individual artists directly through the Individual Artist Category. Applicants/artists must be at least 18 years of age at the time of application.

NYSCA has developed broad guidelines that provide a framework for implementation of the program, while giving local arts agencies flexibility to tailor the program to the diverse communities that they serve. Funding decisions are based on evaluative criteria designed by each SCR Site and approved by NYSCA staff.

SCR site administration is governed by a set of procedures outlined in this SCR Manual issued by NYSCA and available at every SCR site. SCR serves as an umbrella for three distinct funding categories: Community Arts, Arts Education and the Individual Artists. All SCR sites are mandated to fund the Community Arts category and may opt-in to fund the Arts Education and Individual Artist Categories.

CREATE Council on the Arts provides SCR funding for Community Arts Projects, Arts Education, and Individual Artists Commissions.

Community Project Support: Available to not-for-profit organizations, collectives, or individuals in partnership with a non-profit residing in Columbia, Greene, or Schoharie County Provides funding for cultural and art programs taking place in the county of registration Available to not-for-profit organizations, collectives, or individuals in partnership with a non-profit residing in Columbia, Greene, or Schoharie County Provides support for widespread participation in community arts and arts in education initiatives, supporting partnerships between teaching artists or cultural organizations and schools that focus on the exploration of art and the artistic process in all disciplines in the county of registration Available to individual artists legally residing in Greene, Columbia, and Schoharie Counties Provides support to significantly advance the work of the artist, resulting in the creation of new work, and actively engaging a segment of the community through a public program Please see the Upcoming Grants page for detailed guidelines, applications, and important information Become a CREATE member today!

Your support allows us to provide rich programming, curate exciting gallery shows and be your community arts council