AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

from LA Culture Net

New Funding Opportunity to Boost City of LA Arts and Cultural Enterprises

Application Deadline: Friday, April 17, 2015 at 12 pm

With support from the Surdna Foundation, the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) have partnered together to create the Creative Economic Development Fund (CEDF), a funding opportunity for projects that will help launch startup ventures or expand micro-sized creative enterprises with five or fewer employees. This year, the partnership will provide $100,000 in grants of up to $12,500 each to independent businesses, self-employed artists or cultural producers, artist collectives, or nonprofit organizations with earned income activities that use commercial strategies in pursuit of an arts or cultural mission.

The objective is to support creative enterprises that will have a positive economic development impact in the City of Los Angeles. Priority consideration will be given to enterprises and their projects that will benefit economically-disadvantaged communities or impact the thoroughfares of the City's Great Streets Initiative.

Learn more about the Creative Economic Development Fund Program and to begin your application at http://www.cciarts.org/Los_Angeles_CEDF.html.

Free information session will be held on Monday, March 30th from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. in downtown Los Angeles. Registration is required and can be found at http://www.cciarts.org/cgi/page.cgi/calendar.html?evt=542.