Belmont Cultural Council Grant Deadline

Grants Are Available for Belmont Artists

DEADLINE: Organizations, schools, and individuals with creative ideas for cultural, scientific and technological activities and events in Belmont are invited to apply for grants from the Belmont Cultural Council (BCC). Grant applications are being accepted now and must be postmarked by October 15 to be considered for the 2016 funding cycle.

The Massachusetts Cultural Council announced its 2016 spending plan which will award $12 million to local non-profit cultural organizations. The Belmont Local Cultural Council (LCC) was awarded $5,000 for the 2016 fiscal period. Recent Belmont grants have included Belmont World Film, a multi-cultural fair, the Winslow Homer exhibit at the Belmont Woman’s Club and a print making workshop at Habitat.

The Belmont Cultural Council will be holding a grant writing workshop for interested persons on Wednesday, September 23, from 7-9pm at the Belmont Public Library. Contact Juliet Jenkins at jerbly@yahoo.com for more information about the workshop.

For grant application forms, specific guidelines, and more on the Belmont Cultural Council, visit www.mass-culture.org/Belmont or by contacting Laurie Gianotti, the BCC chair at laurie2276@comcast.net.

The BCC is part of a network of 329 Local Cultural Councils serving all 351 cities and towns in the Commonwealth. The LCC Program is the largest grassroots cultural funding network in the nation, supporting thousands of community-based projects in the arts, sciences and humanities every year. The state legislature provides an annual appropriation to the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, which then allocates funds to each community.