Cultural Sustainability: Operational Impact Grants for Small Arts Organizations is a new grant program offered by the six U.S. Regional Arts Organizations (USRAOs) in partnership with The Wallace Foundation. It provides general operating support to small, culturally driven arts organizations with annual operating expenses under $500,000.

Cultural Sustainability acknowledges the invaluable contributions arts and cultural organizations make in our communities and the broader cultural landscape. This pilot program will endeavor to support and understand how small, community-based arts organizations can advance their sustainability and well-being.

Through operational grants, capacity building, and cohort learning, Cultural Sustainability will support culturally driven organizations with resources to expand their practices and increase arts engagement in their communities.

To better serve groups that may face barriers with other grant programs, this initiative also expands the types of operational structures eligible for support to include nonprofits as well as art-centric businesses.

M-AAA expects to grant a total of $1,100,00 in the region,  through 22 organizational grants of $50,000 each.

Applications open October 30, 2024, for M-AAA’s six state region of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.