Grants
Grants Overview
ALCA is honored to serve as the coordinating site for the Statewide Community Regrants (SCR) program offered by the New York State Council on the Arts. Through this program, ALCA is able to empower artists and nurture the arts throughout the Quad-County region encompassing Clinton, Essex, Franklin, and Hamilton counties, including the Haudenosaunee tribal community of Akwesasne.
Since 2020, ALCA has regranted $XXXX to support XXXX projects in our surrounding counties. Our 2024 regrants, hit an all-time high of $xxx for a single year, and 2025 promises to be another record with $xxx available.
2024 Regrant Activity
Individual Artists
30 Projects
$xxxx
Arts Education
9 Projects
$xxxx
Community Arts
45 Projects
$xxxx
Program History
Founded in 1977, the regrant program was developed to ensure that New York State's cultural funding reached every part of the state and was aptly named the "Decentralization (DEC)" grant program. The concept of decentralization has since become one of the most effective ways for the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to make arts support available to geographically, economically, and ethnically diverse segments of the state's population.
The program - renamed the "Statewide Community Regrants (SCR)" program by NYSCA in 2021 - forms the cornerstone of the NYSCA’s partnership with local arts agencies throughout the state.
Project name & date
ALCA's Role as a Coordinating Site
Statewide Community Regrant funds are disbursed locally by regional and local arts agencies at the invitation of NYSCA. ALCA was selected as a coordinating site in xxxx. In our role, we are charged to be advocates and catalysts for arts and cultural development across the four counties we support and to provide a wide range of multi-arts programming and services for local communities, artists, and small organizations in these areas.
The New York State Council on the Arts has developed broad guidelines that provide a framework for implementing the program while giving the SCR sites the flexibility to tailor the program to the diverse communities they serve. Funding decisions are based on evaluative criteria designed by each SCR site and approved by NYSCA staff. A group of volunteers serve as peer reviewers.