The Children's Theater Foundation of America

Application Guidelines

CTFA Grant Application Guidelines

CTFA is concerned solely with:

theatre for children and youth;
the utilization of drama or theatre in education for children grades K-12;
development opportunities for theatre artists working in the area of theatre for children and youth

Only one grant proposal per year may be submitted to the Foundation by an applicant.

Priority consideration will be given to applicants not funded by a CTFA grant during the previous grant year.

Most grant projects are for one year, however exceptional projects extending up to two years may be considered when included in the original grant submission.

Applications for general operating support or for activities undertaken for academic credit will not be considered.

Each grant application must give information to address the review criteria regarding

the quality of your work;
the feasibility for the project to be accomplished;
the significance of your project to the field (locally; nationally)
the relevance of the CTFA grant funds to the outcome of the project.

Each grant application must be accompanied by a completed CTFA GRANT APPLICATION SUMMARY SHEET and the requested documentation to support the information listed.

OPTIONS for GRANT SUBMISSIONS FOR CTFA Founders Grants, Aurand Harris Grants and Aurand Harris Fellowships.

PRINTED SUBMISSION BY MAIL or CARRIER: Grant Applicants may submit 5 copies of the grant cover sheet and all support materials by mail or alternate carrier postmarked by the April 1st deadline and delivered no later than April 7, to CTFA GRANTS COMMITEE, c/o M Miller, 617 Baxter Ave, Louisville, KY 40204-1105. Email address must be included. Notification of receipt of application by CTFA Grants Committee will be to your email address.

ELECTRONIC (email) SUBMISSION: Grant Applicants my submit one transmission of the Grant Cover Sheet and primary information support materials electronically in MSWord/Excel Files, RTF Files, or Adobe Acrobat pdf files to info@childrenstheatrefoundation.org by the April 1 deadline. For electronic submission you must include this information in the email subject line: CTFA Grant application from- _________ (insert name of submitter). (5 copies of support materials such as brochures, playbills, etc. may be submitted by mail separately---properly identified.)
Notification of receipt of application by CTFA Grants Committee will be to your email address. Please do not submit in electronic formats other than those listed.

Applications are accepted only from theatres and theatre artists within in the United States of America.

Grants Timeline

Founders Grant, Harris Grant, Harris Fellowship

January 1-April 1:
Proposals may be submitted between January 1st and April 1th of a calendar year. Hard copy submissions must be postmarked by April 1 and received no later than April 7.
(Incomplete applications will not be forwarded for grant review. Email submissions are preferred.)

May-July:
Proposals will be reviewed between May-July of the submission year.

August 15 & 31
Grant applications to be funded will be notified by August 15. All applicants will receive email notice by August 31st.

September 1:
Grant proposals must be for projects that begin no earlier than September 1st of the grant application submission year and completed by July 15 of the following year unless otherwise stipulated.

September 29:
Grant award recipients must return to the CTFA a completed contract agreement to be received no later than September 29. (Electronic return not accepted.)

July 20 of the year following:
Final project report is due no later than July 20 of the year following the award. Final project reports should be submitted electronically.

Monies for all funded proposals will be distributed: 75% when granted, 25% upon receipt by the CTFA of the final project report. (If the granted project spans more then one year, the reporting date will be specified in the grant contract agreement.)

Grant Recipients Requirements

Recipients of any CTFA grant must include the CTFA logo in all official programs or publications and the statement: “Funded in part by a grant from the Children's Theater Foundation of America.”

Theatres that commission and then retain the work created in part by the grant must make that work publicly available for use by other theatres within three years.

Recipients of the Aurand Harris Children’s Theatre grants; the Alvin Cohen Fund grants; and the Reba Robertson Award have additional requirements for inclusion of biographical material in any official program or publication used in association with the project.

See specific instructions on the application details sheet for each grant or award.

Applications are accepted only from theatres and theatre artists within in the United States of America.