The application windows for the 2025 Statewide Community Regrants (SCR) cycle covering Community Arts projects and, for organizational applicants, the "Intent-to-Apply" submission form are NOW OPEN through Friday, January 31, 2025. The windows for Arts Education and Individual Artist applications will follow as soon as possible thereafter, with deadlines of approximately one month from the date each window opens. Deadlines may be extended for approximately a month at a time until enough applications in each of the three categories are received to regrant the total of $285,000 available this year.
Meanwhile, Round 2 of the 2024 SCR cycle, covering projects in Arts Education and Community Arts only (Individual Artist grants maxed out for 2024 in Round 1), remains open. For those nonprofit organizations, governmental/quasi-governmental entities, tribal organizations, and individual artists not ready to apply for either current opportunity, much of the information on the four pages of this website's grants section also remains relevant to future SCR application cycles.
To learn more about what kind of projects are eligible, applying for current or future grants, or any other aspects of the SCR program that you may have questions on, you also can email ALCA’s NYS SCR Coordinator Fred Balzac at fred@adirondackarts.org, as well as call or text him at 518-588-7275 (if texting, please include your full name).
Grant Guidelines
Not sure how to get started applying for a Statewide Community Regrant (SCR) grant? Reviewing the 2025 application guidelines as presented on this website (see the link immediately below) should give you a comprehensive, yet concise picture of what’s involved in the application process for the category that applies to the project(s) you have in mind proposing—Arts Education, Community Arts and/or, for fiscal-year 2025 and beyond, Individual Artist. Reviewing the SCR guidelines is also a prerequisite to applying. If you need help determining which category you are eligible for, please contact Grant Coordinator Fred Balzac.
2025 ADK Quad-County Region SCR Application Guidelines
Grant-Application "How-to" Seminars
The SCR application process typically begins with prospective applicants attending one of the many "how-to-apply" informational seminars scheduled throughout the Adirondack (ADK) Quad-County service area of Clinton, Essex, Franklin, and Hamilton counties and the Haudenosaunee tribal community of Akwesasne and/or virtually (e.g., via Zoom) or an individual consultation with the grant coordinator by phone or Zoom. The ADK Quad-County Region SCR Program offers these free seminars and consultations to prospective applicants, with the aim of making the SCR application process as accessible, simple, and user-friendly as possible.
At these seminars/consultations, the grant coordinator will walk participants through the guidelines, including by highlighting changes from the previous year, especially for any past attendees/grantees present; preview the application form itself; answer participant questions; and/or provide feedback and technical assistance on the projects that the participants have in mind or already are in the process of developing.
To be eligible to receive funding in the 2025 and/or Round-2 2024 application cycle, first-time applicants and returning ones who did not apply for 2021 Decentralization (DEC) or 2022, 2023, or Round-1 2024 SCR funding are required to participate in an individual or group consultation with the grant coordinator BEFORE completing the application. Those who have applied in any one of the past four DEC/SCR cycles must check in with the coordinator by email or phone to determine whether such participation is necessary. In addition to being free, the consultations are open to the general public. Please note: if the contact person for the application, the writer of the grant, and/or the project coordinator are different persons, they all must attend the same consultation.
To participate in a consultation, prospective applicants must sign up in advance—ideally, no later than the day before—by contacting Grant Coordinator Fred Balzac by email at fred@adirondackarts.org and having him confirm the appointment. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, "How-to-Apply" seminars for the 2021 and 2022 application cycles were held online via Zoom. For 2023 and 2024, they were held both in person and online. Individual and group consultations for the 2025 cycle will cover the SCR Arts Education, Community Arts, and/or Individual Artist grant opportunities depending on the interests of those participatng in a given session.
For the fiscal-year 2025 grant opportunities, to register for a seminar or consultation once they are posted below on this page, prospective applicants need to email Fred at the address given above and/or call or text him at 518-588-7275 (if texting, please include your full name). In general, prospective applicants who have any difficulty with attending any seminars that are scheduled for an in-person gathering and/or an online session held via Zoom should contact him regarding scheduling an individual phone consultation, which is an option open to all applicants. In fact, for the 2023 and Round-1 2024 cycles, Fred conferred with more applicants on an individual basis than via a group seminar, and numerous applicants found the former approach to be an effective, as well as efficient, way to obtain the necessary information and answer participants' questions to their satisfaction.
Info on 2024 SCR grant-application seminars and individual consultations
How to Apply
All applications must be submitted electronically through our online submission platform, Submittable. If you do not have an account, you will have to create one. Fiscal-year 2025 and Round-2 2024 applications will be accessible by using the following link: https://adirondacklakescenterforthearts.submittable.com/submit. The application format must be adhered to and each application completed in its entirety, including all required attachments.
Applications for the 2025 and Round-2 2024 cycles must be submitted electronically to the ALCA Submittable site (accessed via the link in red above). Because approval for funding in Round 2 will be determined by applicants meeting all of the 2024 SCR guideline requirements as assessed by the grant coordinator on a first-come, first-served basis, there is no specified deadline. Applications for up two projects in one or two categories—Arts Education and Community Arts—will be accepted until the Round-2 funding (approximately $30,000) is expended.
The total amount requested cannot exceed $2,500 whether this application is for one or two projects. The total minimum amount requested must be $1,000 unless the Round-2 applicant is a 2024 Round-1 SCR grantee that received more than $4,000 but less than $5,000. In that case, the applicant may request the difference between $5,000 and the amount awarded but for one or two entirely different projects. For example, if the applicant was awarded $4,250 in Round 1, it may request $750 in Round 2. Projects that have already been completed in 2024 may be eligible for retroactive funding.
The initial deadline for 2025 Community Arts applications and, for organizational applicants applying for 2025 funding, the "Intent-to-Apply" form is Friday, January 31, 2025 at 5 pm. Funding requests are capped at $5,000 for each applicant, whether for one, two, or three projects in various combinations of the three categories (fiscal sponsorship requests do not count toward the $5,000 cap). Because the Individual Arts grant commission is now $3,000 (up from $2,500 in 2024), artists applying in that category can also apply for up to a total of an additional $2,000 for one or two other projects in the Arts Ed and/or Community Arts category.
Please note: all required fields in the application form must be completed in order to finalize and submit your application. These fields are indicated by red asterisks. After you have submitted your application successfully, you will receive a confirmation email generated by Submittable to the email address associated with your Submittable account. If you do not receive a confirmation email, assume your application was NOT submitted and contact Submittable technical support (via the platform or see our SCR Resources page for the support team's contact info) and/or email the grant coordinator at fred@adirondackarts.org.
Grant-Application Form Templates (for reference only)
The application-form templates for the FY 2025 grant cycle will be posted here once the application window has opened in Submittable for those opportunities:
2024 SCR Community Arts grant application form
2024 SCR Individual Artist grant application form
2024 SCR Arts Education grant application form
For a copy of the Word version of the SCR applications, which you can use to draft your application offline (which is recommended), please email the grant coordinator at fred@adirondackarts.org.
