Leveraging Local Cultural Council Grants

Sep 6, 2024 | Grants & Funding Resources, News, Resource finding, State

Many MA artists, performers, and other cultural program-creators routinely partner with senior centers to apply for Local Cultural Council grants. These grants, offered yearly, provide funds for arts programming that might otherwise be inaccessible to Councils on Aging with limited budgets.

The application deadline for Mass Cultural Council’s Local Cultural Council Grants is October 16.

If this is news to you and you’re interested in learning more about the kinds of programs that these grants support, you can look up any community’s LCC on the MCC website and see the list of recent grant recipients, the titles of their projects, and the amount they received. If you or the artist you’re working with are interested in offering a program to residents of more than one city or town, the applicant (usually the artist devising the program) may submit applications to more than one LCC.

Each LCC has its own set of funding priorities, so be sure to read up on your particular community’s LCC profile, which will also provide local contact information.

 

 

 

FY25 SIG Field Demonstration Project Grants

Apr 2, 2024 | Grants & Funding Resources, State

MCOA is pleased to announce grant opportunities for Field Demonstration Projects (FDP) for the FY25 Council on Aging direct grants cycle. MCOA intends to award state Service Incentive Grant (SIG) funds, contingent upon final approval by the Governor of the state budget. These funds will be used to provide direct grants to COAs under the following three categories and twelve project areas that have been approved by EOEA.

Colorful Graphic with squares denoting due dates for SIG process

Capacity Building

  • Age & Dementia Friendly Capacity Building
    (up to $20,000)
  • Memory Café Capacity Building or Startups
    (up to $7,500)
  • Development and Implementation of Outreach Programs
    (up to $10,000)

Innovations

  • Nutrition Innovations and/or Expansion
    (up to $20,000)
  • Provision of Transportation Services
    (up to $25,000)
  • Digital Equity
    (up to $15,000)
  • Other Innovative Programming
    (up to $10,000)

 

Improving Access and Inclusion

  • Senior Center Modernization
    (up to $25,000)
  • Public Health Connections
    (up to $7,500)
  • Enhanced Public Awareness of your COA
    (up to $7,500)
  • Creating a Welcoming Space for People with Sensory Disabilities (related to hearing, vision, or both)
    (up to $10,000)
  • Caregiver Respite Services or Financial Assistance
    (up to $10,000)

 

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A bidders conference was held via zoom on
April 24, 2024 at 10:00 am.

 

Click here to view the recording.

Click here to view the slide deck.

Click here to view the Q&A from the bidders conference.

Questions submitted in writing and those posed during the bidders conference, along with the answers, will be posted here by April 26, 2024.

Written questions must be submitted by email, with the subject line FY25 FDP, to Madeline Noonan at madeline@mcoaonline.com by 4:00 PM on April 24, 2024.

 

  • Download the full RFP announcement and instructions here.
  • Download the FY25 FDP application form here.

The Intent to Bid is now closed and only those who submitted this form by the May 8th at 4:00 p.m. deadline are eligible to submit a Field Demonstration Project proposal. Any proposal for which an Intent to Bid form was not submitted by the deadline will not be considered for funding.

The FY25 FDP application period has now closed. Award notifications will be made by June 21st.

Municipal Americans with Disabilities Act Grant

Mar 27, 2024 | Grants & Funding Resources, State

  • application is open May 1st to June 14th, 2024

The Massachusetts Office on Disability, (MOD) is pleased to announce the Municipal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Improvement Grant Programapplication and selection process. Eligible applicants include any Massachusetts city or town. These grants will support capital improvements specifically dedicated to improving programmatic access and/or removing barriers encountered by persons with disabilities in applicant facilities throughout the Commonwealth.  Grants will be awarded to successful applicants to remove barriers and create and improve accessible features and programmatic access for persons with disabilities throughout the Commonwealth.

Examples include but are not limited to increasing both physical access and programmatic access through the addition of features such as: ramps, elevators, power lifts and Limited Use/Limited Application (LULAs) signage, communication access devices, curb cuts and/or any other features that are designed to improve architectural access and/or programmatic access.  Grants will be awarded on a competitive basis to projects that demonstrate real and tangible positive impacts to persons with disabilities.

More information is available here.

Municipal Americans with Disabilities Act Grant

Mar 7, 2024 | Grants & Funding Resources, State

  • application is open May 1st to June 14th

The Massachusetts Office on Disability, (MOD) is pleased to announce the Municipal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Improvement Grant Programapplication and selection process. Eligible applicants include any Massachusetts city or town. These grants will support capital improvements specifically dedicated to improving programmatic access and/or removing barriers encountered by persons with disabilities in applicant facilities throughout the Commonwealth.  Grants will be awarded to successful applicants to remove barriers and create and improve accessible features and programmatic access for persons with disabilities throughout the Commonwealth.

Examples include but are not limited to increasing both physical access and programmatic access through the addition of features such as: ramps, elevators, power lifts and Limited Use/Limited Application (LULAs) signage, communication access devices, curb cuts and/or any other features that are designed to improve architectural access and/or programmatic access.  Grants will be awarded on a competitive basis to projects that demonstrate real and tangible positive impacts to persons with disabilities.

More information is available here.