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.
