Community Arts grants provide support for arts and cultural projects to community-based organizations, groups, collectives, or artists working with a fiscal sponsor. SCR support enables emerging professional artists and organizations to grow professionally and serve geographically, economically, and ethnically diverse populations to increase local communities’ vitality in Livingston and Monroe Counties.

Community Arts Grants may include, but are not limited to, exhibitions, workshop series, performances, festivals, screenings, or readings. All funded projects must be community-based and open to the general public. Examples of previously funded Community Arts Grants include Community summer concert series, Film Festivals, Theatre, Dance, and music productions (seasons and individual shows), and library programming.

The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) developed the State Community Regrant Program (SCR), formally known as the Decentralization Regrant Program, in 1977 to ensure that New York State’s cultural funding reached every part of the state. The Genesee Valley Council on the Arts administers the program for Livingston and Monroe Counties.