May 2024

Hey, how are you doing? That’s a question I ask or get asked daily. Family, friends or coworkers, the response is typically the same, “I’m fine, everything’s good.” Except that isn’t always accurate, is it? Sometimes we are not fine. Sometimes we know the person on the other end isn’t fine. But we go on asking, shielded by the conventions of social norms and polite conversation; we don’t expect people to give an honest answer. But, what if we were honest. In January of this year, Elmo – the...

As we’ve recently announced, the CRC Accelerator is taking an indefinite hiatus, but this moment of growth is anything but goodbye. Two years into this unique program, we are aware of the incredible impact access can have on PACEs initiatives and we now have a CRC Fellowship that grows with each CRC graduate.

TRENTON, NJ — The New Jersey Cultural Trust, in partnership with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (Arts Council), has released the guidelines for its Fiscal Year 2025 grant program , Institutional and Financial Stabilization Grants for Arts Organizations (IFS Arts). The IFS Arts program addresses the financial and institutional challenges that threaten nonprofit arts organizations’ stability, helping them build greater operational capacity. Past grant projects funded through this...