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Travelers Arts & Diversity Grants Overview
 | Travelers’ Arts & Diversity employee driven grant program is a signature, award-winning nonprofit-corporate partnership that supports and encourages employee involvement in the community. |
Developed in 1991 through a grant from The St. Paul Companies, now known as Travelers, it has provided thousands of employees and community members with an expanded opportunity to deepen their relationships within the community that houses the corporate headquarters of Travelers. In addition, it provides hands-on leadership learning and exposure to the broader, diverse community for involved employees, through the arts and community arts programming, while successfully addressing the business case of the sponsor corporation.
The Travelers’ Arts & Diversity Grants Committee grants funding twice a year to organizations that use the arts as a communication tool to broaden and deepen learning and opportunities of middle and high school students in St. Paul, and extends participation opportunities deep into the community. Preference is given to organizations that benefit financially disadvantaged youth in the East Metro area.
FISCAL YEAR 2010 GUIDELINES
1. Only 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations are eligible to apply.
2. Grants are specific to the St. Paul metro area.
3. One application per organization per year is allowed.
4. Operating fund requests are limited to $10,000 and under.
Review Criteria
• Artistic merit/quality of proposed activities
• Organization’s potential to effectively communicate diversity learning across communities
• Organization’s history of directly serving low-income communities, specifically youth in the East Metro
• Organization's history of successfully producing similar/comparable art activities
• Demonstrated need for activity in the community
• Ability of organization to effectively involve the community in its work
• Ability of organization to effectively carry out the activity
• Budget
Contributions will not be granted for:
• Organizations that discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, culture, age, physical disability, sexual orientation or status as a military veteran.
• Sectarian religious organizations, unless it can be shows that the organization is seeking charitable funds in the direct interest of the whole community.
• Veterans’ and fraternal organizations.
• Political and lobbying organizations.
• Benefits, fund-raisers, walk-a-thons, telethons, galas or other revenue-generating events.
• Advertising.
• Scholarships to individuals.
• Health care or other health-related emergency assistance for individuals; direct delivery of health or medical services to individuals or groups; medical research, medical equipment; or hospital capital or operating funds.
• Replacement of government funding.
• Start-up, capital or operations of public or charter schools.
• Human services such as counseling, chemical abuse or family programs.
• Environmental programs.
• Special events, except when the event is a key strategy in a continuum of efforts to achieve community goal in the foundation’s priority areas.
Review Procedures
A Travelers employee review panel will review proposals and make funding decisions.
Download Application (Word document)»
Application Timeline:
Application deadlines are Friday, March 5, 2010 and Friday, September 10, 2010.
Decisions will be announced within approximately 16 weeks of application deadline.
Submission Process:
1. Please download the application to your computer and complete as directed.
2. Please submit the completed application to becky@kohnstamm.com.
Use the body of the email as your cover letter and attach the completed application.
Should you need further assistance, please contact Becky Robb Hotzler @ becky@kohnstamm.com or at (651) 228-9141.
