Colorado Creates Grant
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Colorado Creates Grant supports arts-focused organizations with general operating funding for public arts programming that emphasizes artistic excellence, community involvement, and access across Colorado.
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Funder: Colorado Creative Industries
Due Dates (Anticipated): May 2027 (Online application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $6,000–$14,000 per application, based on cash operating revenue, within a one-year funding period
Summary: General operating support for Colorado arts-focused organizations presenting public arts programming.
Key Information: Recipients must sit out one year after their funded year; fiscal sponsors are not permitted.
Description
Colorado Creates is Colorado Creative Industries’ largest annual competitive grant program, providing general operating support to arts-focused organizations presenting public programming in Colorado. CCI administers the program within the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, with support in part from the National Endowment for the Arts. Funding supports arts programs, services, and activities associated with the NEA strategic plan.
The program emphasizes artistic excellence and merit, community involvement and impact, and organizations’ capacity to implement programming. Priorities include high artistic, educational, and cultural standards, equitable compensation for artists and collaborators, meaningful community partnerships, and engagement with people whose access to the arts is limited by geography, economic status, or disability.
