Impact Projects
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Impact Projects supports organizations, artists, and community members in California through collaborative arts projects that address community-defined needs, advance equity, and help communities thrive.
Funder: California Arts Council
Due Dates (Anticipated): May 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to $25,000 for a one-year grant activity period
Summary: Supports collaborative arts projects addressing community-defined needs in historically and systemically under-resourced California communities.
Key Information: Organizations with total revenue at or above $3 million are ineligible.
Description
Impact Projects is administered by the California Arts Council to support collaborations between organizations, California-based artists, and community members. Projects center artistic practice in responding to social, political, and economic inequalities. The program prioritizes artists and cultural expression unique to, or historically rooted in, the communities served, with goals of strengthening collaboration, fostering equity and access, and helping communities heal, stabilize, and thrive.
Supported issues include systemic marginalization, incarceration and justice systems, poverty, health disparities, disability accessibility, housing and food insecurity, violence, cultural and social justice, arts learning, and intergenerational learning. Projects may also address veterans’ experiences, LGBTQIA+ issues, immigrant and refugee experiences, environmental sustainability, climate change, natural disasters, and climate displacement. Former grantees and applicants of Reentry Through the Arts and Veterans in the Arts are encouraged to apply.
