Creative Schools Fund 2023-24


Thank you for your interest in the Fall 2023 Cycle of the Creative Schools Fund.
Application period has closed. 

Grant Decisions will be announced in mid December 2023.

Creative Schools Fund grants target eligible Chicago Public Schools. They may be used to support in-school arts education residencies, teacher development, and capital projects to ensure dedicated arts spaces in a school. A school becomes eligible when they accomplish two tasks:

  1. The school Principal nominates an Arts Liaison who will serve as the primary point of contact for arts in their school.
  2. They participate in the Creative Schools Survey. 

Grants are allocated through a competitive annual application process.

About The Creative Schools Fund

The Creative Schools Fund 2023-2024 application cycle received an overwhelming response! Grants will prioritize those schools with the least systemic arts access and projects will bring immediate arts programs to students – and fuel sustainable, long term increases to arts education access for every student, in every grade.

Each year’s grants represent every CPS network, every Chicago neighborhood, and schools of every type within the public education landscape. Yet – investments are concentrated in the neighborhoods and student populations where access is currently most limited.

Grants Review Committee

The Grant Review Committee is composed of arts and education practitioners and/or experts, current and former CPS teachers, and community members. We actively seek those whose expertise is garnered through education and training as well as those whose expertise is built through experience and practice in teaching, education, and the arts. We are hopeful that the Grants Review Committee composition will include representation from every discipline and from those whose arts practice takes many forms – for example, arts: integration; therapy and social work; activism, justice and advocacy; philanthropy; consulting; production; and many more.

The CSF Grant Review Committee reviews grant applications, evaluates their merit, and makes recommendations regarding the granting portfolio in each granting year. CSF Grant Review Committee members are recognized for their work with a stipend aligned to the fair market rate, or higher, for the time they spend on these activities.


GRANT GUIDELINES

Guidelines for the 2023-2024 Partnership Grant Application can be found here.


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