SCR Grants
Grants Overview
Notable Numbers
The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts (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 (NYSCA).
Through this program, ALCA is able to empower artists and nurture the arts throughout the Adirondack Quad-County region encompassing Clinton, Essex, Franklin, and Hamilton counties, including the Haudenosaunee tribal community of Akwesasne.
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With NYSCA's continued support, ALCA has tripled the amount of regrants awarded to Adirondack artists and arts organizations over the past three years - from $91,000 in 2022 to $291,000 in 2024.
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Including the 2021-22 Restart New York Mini-Grants that NYSCA provided to arts and cultural organizations to help offset the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, ALCA has supported organizations and artists with a total of $631,500 in arts funding since 2021.
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We were able to fund 100% of the eligible SCR Arts Education and Community Arts applications received since 2022, totaling more than $462,000 in regrants over three years.
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We regranted another $123,750 to 51 artists since ALCA revived the Individual Artist grant category in 2023. This was the maximum allowed by NYSCA in this grant category.
2024 SCR Funding Totals by Grant Category
Individual Artist
30 Projects
$71,250
Arts Education
14 Projects
$36,540
Community Arts
60 Projects
$179,160
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.
Statewide Community Regrant funds are disbursed locally by regional and local arts agencies, like ALCA, at the invitation of NYSCA. 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.