Project Grant Information
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Grant Information
The Commission exists to assist the growth of worthwhile programs in the arts and humanities in the City of Virginia Beach. Toward this end, the Commission provides financial assistance to organizations (in the form of project grants) for activities serving the residents of Virginia Beach. Applicants may apply for only one project grant in any grant period.
These grants are supported by taxpayer revenues in an annual appropriation from City Council. A small portion of the funds available for grants may be supported by a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Description:
- This grant program supports a wide variety of artistic and cultural activities.
- The Commission does not fund general operating support for cultural organizations. Additionally, funding will not exceed 50% of the total cost of the project.
- There is no guarantee of funding or increases in grant awards year-to-year. Projects that receive funding one year may or may not receive funding the following year.
Virginia Beach Arts & Humanities Commission grant recipients for the 2024 fiscal year:
- Access Virginia
- Ballet Virginia International
- Hurrah Players
- Little Theatre of Virginia Beach
- Mosaic Steel Orchestra, Inc.
- Symphonicity
- The Governor’s School for the Arts
- Tidewater African Cultural Alliance
- Tidewater Arts Outreach
- TWP - The Youth Movement
- United Jewish Federation of Tidewater
- ViBe Creative District
- Virginia African American Cultural Center
- Virginia Arts Festival
- Virginia Beach Art Center
- Virginia Beach Chorale
- Virginia Musical Theatre
- Virginia Stage Company
- Virginia Symphony Orchestra
- WHRO
- Young Audiences of Virginia
- Zeiders American Dream Theater