Now Accepting Grant Applications

The National Guild  has received a $275,000 grant from MetLife Foundation to continue the MetLife Foundation Partners in Arts Education Program. The national initiative, now entering its eighth year, aims to improve teaching and learning in the arts by supporting and promoting exemplary partnerships between community arts education organizations and public schools. Objectives for 2012 include the distribution of grants of up to $20,000 to support arts education partnerships during the 2012-2013 school year.

Grants are available in 32 cities and metropolitan areas, as listed in the guidelines.

Applications must be received in the Guild’s office by 5:00 PM EDT, Thursday, May 17, 2012.

Informational Conference Call Recording

On April 12, the Guild held an informational conference call to review the guidelines with prospective applicants. The call was entirely optional.

Click here for a recording of the call

PLEASE NOTE: This link takes you to the Freeconferencing.com audio player. The call begins at 5 minutes and 45 seconds. Simply drag the button on the conference player to advance and rewind the recording. The total recording length is 1 hour and 27 minutes.

Participants' questions were answered at given points throughout the call. If you have further questions, please email PIAE@nationalguild.org.

The goal of the National Guild for Community Arts Education/MetLife Foundation Partners in Arts Education Grant Program is to enhance arts learning in K¬-12 public schools by supporting Guild member/public school partnerships that:

1. Exemplify best practices in creating and sustaining effective arts education partnerships;
2. Demonstrate joint design and execution of programming, curricula, professional development, and evaluation;
3. Provide high quality arts learning experiences that address national, state, and/or local arts education standards; and
4. Serve significant numbers of public school students during the school day or extended day.

Learn more:

Read Partners in Excellence: A Guide to Community School of the Arts/Public School Partnerships

Download Profiles in Excellence (a supplement to Partners in Excellence)

Training Institute (Read the description from our 2011 conference)

On behalf of MetLife Foundation, the National Guild for Community Arts Education awarded 12 grants totaling $215,000 to support exemplary partnerships between public schools and nonprofit community arts education organizations during the 2011-2012 school year.

Download press release (PDF)

Download 2011-2012 project descriptions (PDF)