Cultural Trust Development Grant applications are due TODAY at 5pm!

Once that deadline has passed, Cultural Trust staff will read and summarize applications and enter the information into our database.

In June and July, four grant panels will convene. The creativity panel leads with its session on June 25. The capacity panel will meet on June 27. In July, access and preservation panels will gather – July 10 and 11, respectively.

Panel meetings are open to the public and applicants are encouraged to attend. However, representatives from applicant organizations may not make presentations to the panel or participate in the discussion.

Again this year we are offering the opportunity to participate in the panel meetings via teleconference webinar. Visit the Webinars page of the Cultural Trust website for information closer to the dates on to call-in and listen to the panel discussion. www.culturaltrust.org/webinars

Panelists will discuss and score each application in their respective categories. Then the ranked applications from each of the four review panels in Preservation, Capacity, Creativity and Access will be reviewed by a “super panel” which will develop a final list of awards.

The Trust Board will award FY2014 grants at its July 25 meeting and grant announcements will be made by July 30, 2013.