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United Arts Grants ’25-’26 OCPS Arts In Education Fund

About the OPPORTUNITY

Description: Orange County Public Schools receives an annual pool of funding from the County with which to allocate to local partner programs in order to provide arts enrichment programming to the K-12 students across the district. United Arts has contracted with OCPS for over two decades to help manage this funding stream. Partner programs that wish to be considered for an allocation decision by OCPS will need to submit a new proposal annually along with all of the necessary supporting information and documentation.

This program is not a grant initiative but rather a contract for services. Allocation decisions are not guaranteed and are solely within the purview of OCPS district leaders. Please note that if you have received funding in the past and do not feel that you can provide programming and fully activate your funding pool for this academic year you may simply forfeit this round of program proposals thereby freeing up additional funding for other programs to utilize.

Deadline: The program proposal application process will open on March 3, 2025, and close on May 31, 2025. This will allow for OCPS district leaders to review the submitted proposals and make allocation decisions in time for chosen partner programs to begin the booking process and ensure the possibility of program delivery for the start of the academic year in August of 2025.

Important Dates

Deadline: Program proposals are accepted between March 10 and May 31, 2025 with a goal to have funding allocations decided by July. To apply for funding, go here.

New applicants must also create a  United Arts Arts Ed account and submit their program(s) for 2025-26.

Returning applicants with significant changes to their program(s) must reflect those changes on their  United Arts Arts Ed account. Also, please expire all events that are no longer offered.

FAQS

Updates to the Process

Previous program partners will notice some minor changes within the application itself. Many external forms used in the past have now been embedded into the portal process for ease of reporting and capturing accurate data. Overall the policies will remain exactly the same as they have been but with a few updates to the ways in which we will collect invoice and attendance data if and when your program has been approved for an allocation.

If at any time you or someone on your team needs assistance with the application or has questions or concerns regarding the process please do not hesitate to reach out to me directly.

Documents

Please consult the Guidelines here for further information.

Learn How to apply

This video guide on the right is designed to help grant holders manage their grants and clarifies our expectations and requirements. For more how-to videos, please go to our YouTube channel.

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