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Topic: Grant Advice

Posted By: Heather Elise
Subject: Grant Advice
Date Posted: 3/11/05 at 7:26am

Hello!

I am a new Exec Director for a new community theater in New Hampshire. I've started looking around for grants to apply to, and am having some difficulties finding any that match our specific goals (community involvement in theater). Where do you all look for grants? Are there specific organizations that you use?

Thanks very much!!

Heather

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Posted By: JCCTony
Date Posted: 3/11/05 at 9:57am

if you look for local grant writers in your area they usually have the resources to find what you're looking for if it exists.

Posted By: dougb
Date Posted: 3/11/05 at 11:16am

Our best luck has come from our local Community Foundation. They like to make grants for "hardware": computers, copiers and so on. We got grants for our sound equipment and, later, our lighting equipment. There are two issues you might run into: First they insist that organizations have their 501(c)(3) in hand and that the organization have some track record. Sounds like a Catch -22 doesn't it? Anyway they were the first to give us significant grants.

I know other organizations that are very successful getting grants for childrens programs - instruction as well as performance. Our state has a very active Community Theater Association. I would check with yours - if nothing else they can steer you to a theater with grant experience. I have found other theaters more than willing to help me any way they can.

Hope this helps

Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 3/12/05 at 5:13am

Originally posted by JCCTony

if you look for local grant writers in your area they usually have the resources to find what you're looking for if it exists.

Blimey 'Grants writers' that would be a great asset, whish we had rgem here!

Although it would probably cost a few gold bricks &/or a percentage of the grant?

I wonder if we could do that here?

That's a fantastic service!

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Joe
Western Gondawandaland
turn right @ Perth.
Hear the light & see the sound.
Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"}
May you always play
to a full house}

Posted By: dougb
Date Posted: 3/12/05 at 10:49am

Around here grant writers get paid whether you get the grant or not - I think the ususal rate for small grants is 10% to 15% of the amount of the grant. Unless you are going for a high probability grant any profit from the grant gets quickly eaten up with the cost of grants you do not get.

Posted By: JCCTony
Date Posted: 3/12/05 at 11:52am

I appologize. My mother-in-law is a grant writer in her spare time and I never remember what she charges.

Posted By: Heather Elise
Date Posted: 3/15/05 at 9:18am

Thanks SO MUCH for all your helpful responses!! I do appreciate them!

Heather

Posted By: AnonymousActor5
Date Posted: 3/24/05 at 11:50pm

i am so confused with grants myself. I am a 14 year old trying to recieve a grant so i can start a theater company...the sad thing is i have no clue what a grant is...so could someone please educate me what exactly a grant is, this is the only form of business within my theater company that has not been completed