Who May Apply

Category A:
A public entity which is a municipality, state government agency or political subdivision of state government or sovereign Native American Nation located primarily in Broward County and which is collaborating with one or more other eligible entities or individuals. Eligible entities or individuals refer to Broward County based public entities, school entities, nonprofit organizations, and qualified individual artists from Martin, Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade or Monroe Counties. 

Category B - A nonprofit organization:

• Whose primary mission is cultural,

• Which has a governing board at least fifty (50) percent of whom reside in Broward County, which meets regularly, and operates under a set of bylaws,

• Which has tax-exempt status under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code,

• Whose principal office address, as recorded in the Secretary of State's office, is in Broward County, with a minimum of one fulltime staff position in that office,

• Which has conducted education projects in the year immediately preceding the date of application,

• Which receives Broward community support through subscriptions, memberships, earned income, and/or planned fundraising,

• Which has been operational in its cultural discipline(s) for a minimum of two (2) uninterrupted years immediately preceding the date of application, and

• Which is collaborating with one or more eligible entities or individuals. Eligible entities or individuals refer to Broward County- based public entities, school entities, nonprofit organizations, and qualified individual artists from Martin, Palm Beach, Broward, Miami- Dade or Monroe Counties. the date of application, and

Category C:
The School Board of Broward County, Florida or the Broward Education Foundation, Inc.

Category D - An individual:

• Possessing the necessary academic and/or professional qualifications to deliver the project for which funding is sought under this Program

• Who lives within Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Palm Beach, or Martin County

• Who has lived continuously in one or more of the five identified counties for the twelve consecutive months prior to date of application.

• Who has conducted an educational project in the year immediately preceding the date of application, and

• Who is collaborating with one or more eligible entities. Eligible entities or individuals refer to public entities, school entities and nonprofit organizations. No applicant or collaborating entity or individual may appear as an applicant or collaborator in more than two grants under this program in any one County fiscal year.

Eligibility Requirements

• The eligibility requirements must be met at the time of application deadline.

• Applicants must have complied with all grant reports and audited financial reporting requirements of previous Broward County grant agreements, if any.

• An applicant organization may not apply under more than one (1) organizational name in one (1) Broward County fiscal year unless a new name is registered with the Secretary of State during that period.

• A late or incomplete application will not be eligible for funding. An incomplete application (i.e., missing attachments, lack of proper support materials, missing pages, etc.) may be rejected at the Grants Staff level and not recommended to the Panel for consideration. Applications with deficiencies will receive a lower score. An applicant may submit only one application and appear as a collaborator in only one other application to the Education & Community Development Program per grant year.