Watauga Arts Council
2007-2008 Grassroots Grants Awards -- 2nd Cycle
Information and Forms:

New! Press Release regarding Grassroots Grants January 30, 2008 deadline Word PDF

Grassroots Grants Process Word PDF
Application Cover Page Word PDF
2007-2008 Application Word PDF
Budget Worksheet with Explanations and Instructions Excel

The deadline for 2007-2008 2nd cycle Grassroots Grant applications is 5 pm, Wednesday, January 30, 2008.  Read our press release (written for the 1st cycle of 2007-2008 Grassroots Grants) for further information.  

Grassroots Grants are one of the most effective ways in which the Watauga County Arts Council serves our community.  Our Executive Director, Cherry Johnson, puts it this way:

"When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, little ripples waft out from the center and stretch far away to the outermost parts of the pool. That’s the effect that I feel the Watauga County Arts Council’s Grassroots Grants Program has upon Watauga County. The pebble is the funding sent to us each year via the North Carolina Arts Council from the North Carolina General Assembly.

In 1977, the North Carolina General Assembly established the Grassroots Arts Program to ensure that every citizen had access to quality arts experiences. The program distributes funds for the arts, primarily through local arts councils, to all 100 counties using a per capita based formula. Our legislators have been very supportive in the past few years and, as a result, each year we have been able to fund a lot of great programs and activities (see our listing of Past Grassroots Grants Awards).  Each of them was a wonderful project which we would have loved to conduct ourselves…but there are only so many volunteers, dollars, and hours in a day! By putting seed money into the hands of these worthy organizations, we were able to drop the artistic pebble into the community pool one more time. Have you felt the ripples?"

Past Grassroots Grants Awards