Organizational Support Program

Program Coordinator:
Cassandra Erickson, cassandra.erickson@dcr.nh.gov, (603) 271-7926

Purpose
To help New Hampshire arts organizations and cultural facilities advance in their work, strengthen the arts infrastructure throughout the state, and provide a vibrant cultural environment for its citizens.

Goals

• Encourage and support arts organizations and cultural facilities in their long-range planning efforts.
• Encourage the conservation of publicly owned cultural facilities, artworks or documents that contribute to New Hampshire's cultural heritage.
• Provide Operating Grants to established arts organizations to recognize and support standards of excellence and accessibility. Provide Project Grants to support projects that provide high quality arts services for the public and strengthen the arts organizations that provide those services.
• Provide technical assistance and grants for the design, renovation, and maintenance of cultural facilities where arts activities regularly take place for the general public.
• Encourage and support diverse, inclusive arts programming that has the potential for statewide, regional, national, or international impact.
• Provide incentives for featuring New Hampshire artists in exhibitions, performances, and publications produced or presented by the state's cultural organizations.
• Increase opportunities for professional development and peer networking for boards of directors, arts administrators, and program staff.

This Program Serves

• New Hampshire 501(c)(3) art organizations that have been in operation for at least 3 years.
• Dedicated arts components within nonprofit parent organizations that have at least a 3-year history of arts programming.
• New Hampshire cultural facilities, operated by 501(c)(3) organizations, schools, or municipalities, where arts programs for the general public regularly take place.
• Government entities that manage historic cultural facilities, arts documents or art works that contribute to the state's cultural heritage.

Types of Grants

Please see individual grant guidelines for requirements and restrictions.

Program Services

• Technical assistance for arts administrators on long-range planning, arts management, and cultural facility operation issues.
• Counseling on grant writing and project development.
• Collection of data about New Hampshire cultural organizations.
• The following links provide valuable information of interest to New Hampshire's cultural organizations:
• CultureCount,
• creative economy information,
• economic impact studies,
• www.TheCorporateFund.org, which provides a listing of consultants that specialize in non-profit management, and
• an online interactive Cultural Calendar for events listings.
• Information about the New Hampshire Visual Arts Coalition

Last updated: June 5, 2008