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Forsyth County ARPA Funding

About the Program

In March 2022, the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners earmarked $4.5 million from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to be managed by Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County. In January 2023, Arts Council received a contract from Forsyth County Government and began making allocations to provide aid to the local arts and cultural sector, including arts and cultural organizations and artist small businesses. The funding supports recovery, new revitalization and expansion of community-based arts programming, arts workforce development programs, and technical assistance. Between January and September 2023, Arts Council’s Public Support and Community Engagement Committee reviewed hundreds of requests totaling more than was available through these once-in-a-lifetime ARPA funds. The below summarizes projects approved by Arts Council’s Public Support and Community Engagement Committee thus far. At this time, we are not accepting new requests for ARPA funding.

Committee members: Jake Wharton, Chair, Jim DeCristo, Kenneth Pettigrew, and Talitha Vickers. Arts Council staff oversight: Chase Law, Rebecca Bender, Shannon Stokes, and Cécile Boynton.

Forsyth County ARPA Awards/Allocations

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Award Recipient	Project Description	Amount Awarded/Allocated	Populations Served
Winston-Salem Delta Fine Arts Center	Provide capacity building funds to support a Program and Operations Manager position to support the growth of the organization.	$75,000	27105
Winston-Salem Freedom Schools	Support of Expanding Arts Enrichment Opportunities in Winston-Salem Freedom Schools to bring high quality and meaningful opportunities in the arts.	$8,000	27101, 27105
Winston-Salem Symphony	Support the launch of a films-in-concert series to recover from the pandemic, and attract new and diverse audiences to the world of orchestral music.	$112,500	27101. Local attendees will be from the following Forsyth County zip codes: 27009, 27012, 27019, 27023, 27040, 27045, 27050, 27051, 27101, 27103, 27104, 27105, 27106, 27107, 27110, 27127, and 27284

Timeline

Application Deadline: As of June 2023, we are not accepting any new applications.

Please Note: All applications and required supporting documents must be submitted via the Submittable Grants Portal.

Review of Application: Applications will be reviewed by Arts Council Public Support and Community Engagement Committee on the 3rd Wednesday of every month. To be considered at the monthly review meeting, applications must be submitted by the 5th of the month.

Award Notification: By the end of each month the application was submitted.

Project Period: All projects must be completed by December 31, 2024

Reporting: Monthly reporting will be required as outlined in the Eligibility Documents below.

Eligibility Criteria

Must be an organization, business entity or individual artist that resides and/or produce most of their program and services in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County.
ARPA contract recipients must acknowledge the receipt of eligibility documents for the ARPA Fund Application, and agree to comply to all guidelines, procedure and policies of this contract award process

Evaluation

Arts Council staff will review all applications to ensure their eligibility. All eligible applications are evaluated by Arts Council Public Support and Community Engagement Committee on the 3rd Wednesday of every month.

Applications will be reviewed and evaluated based on the following guidelines:

BUDGET: Is the budget clear with detailed expenses? Does the project budget align with the project narrative?
SUSTAINABILITY: Is the sustainability plan for this project clear and feasible?
COMMUNITY IMPACT: Is it clear as to the constituency being served in this project? How does this align with Arts Council strategic visioning roadmap.

Note: At least 50% of the ARPA Funds must serve project initiatives in disproportionately impacted communities, and provide initiatives in areas that are at or below 200% of the Federal Poverty level. More information about the Federal Poverty level can be found in our resource drive below.

For ARPA Contract Recipients

Please note that part of ARPA compliance is that Contractors will give proper credit to Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County and Forsyth County Government with use of logos in all publicity, including on flyers or advertisements and will use the following tagline acknowledgement:

“The Project Name is a sponsored project of the Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County and funded through ARPA supported by the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners.”

You can share all project marketing and/or promotional information with our CMO and VP, Development, Katie Hall, khall@intothearts.org.

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