Grant Panels

Grant Panelist Nomination Form

Thank you to all the panelists who dedicated their time and enery for the 2011-2012 cycle. If you are interested in being a panelist for the 2012-2013 cycle which would be in June/July 2012, please check back regulary for when the updated nomination form will be due. 

Below is the 2011-2012 Grant Cycle Panelist form and the call for panelists:

Nomination Form

Call for Grant Panelists

Each year Arts Council for Long Beach convenes grant review panels--comprised of local and area arts professionals and artists--to undertake the important task of deciding how to distribute limited grant funds to Long Beach-based artists, community groups, and arts/cultural organizations.

Here is how it works:

• A grant panel is created for each of the four grant categories. The four grant categories this year are: Professional Artist Fellowship (PAF), Community Project Grant (CPG) and Operating Grant I & II (OPG I & II). (The Neighborhood Grant has been replaced with the monthly Micro-Grant Program and is not part of this panel process)

• Panelists may only serve on one grant panel and cannot serve on a panel for a category in which they have currently applied. Also, panelists may not sit on panels for which there may be a conflict of interest. (Contact Arts Council for Long Beach for more information).

• Panelists must be Southern California residents.

• Panelists are chosen from various artistic and cultural disciplines so that each grant panel is comprised of a diverse cross section of the artistic and cultural community.

• Panelists receive copies of completed grant applications and scoring sheets where they "pre-score" applicants based on a set of criteria. (Panelists do this on their own time before the panel convenes as a group.)

• Panelists convene as a group for one, usually day-long session where they discuss the applications as a group and view supplemental artistic materials submitted by grant applicants (slides, videos, CDs, PowerPoint, etc.). This year the panel meetings will take place:

o July 5, Operating Grants I & II (OPG I &II)

o July 12, Professional Artist Fellowship (PAF)

o July 19, Community Project Grant (CPG)

• Panelists decide on a final score for each individual or organizational applicant. Scores are averaged between all panelists.

• Applicants with the highest scores receive the larger grant awards in their respective categories while lower scoring applicants receive lesser awards or no awards. (Grant award amounts are also dependent upon Arts Council funding levels established during City budgeting for 2011-2012).

Arts Council for Long Beach is seeking arts educators, arts administrators, individual artists, historians, community members active in the arts, and other arts or cultural professionals to become panelists for this year's grant cycle. Panelists must commit from 10-20 hours of time to this process (for reading and pre-scoring applications on their own time and attending the full-day panel meeting). Panelists are provided with lunch on the day of the grant panel meeting.