About The Program
Responding to emergent opportunities, New York Folklore provides information about funding opportunities to artists and cultural communities. Opportunities can take the form of support for apprenticeships, internships, projects by individual artists, or capacity building support to organizations. New York Folklore continues to serve as a fiscal sponsor for grassroots cultural community organizations.
Current Opportunities
The Museum at Eldridge Street, a museum located in an 1887 historic synagogue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, is seeking a Freelance Festival Coordinator to support planning and execution of our 25th annual Egg Rolls, Egg Creams, and Empanadas Street Festival, taking place on June 21, 2026.This is a March–June freelance contract (approximately 20 hours per week), and we’re especially interested in candidates with festival or street fair experience and a background in folklore, cultural programming, or community-based work.
Folk Arts in Education Residencies
New York Folklore announces a residency opportunity for K-12 educational institutions to host traditional artists and/or tradition bearers at their institution. Limited funds are available to support a two or three-day residency with tradition bearers and traditional artists in New York State public schools. Awards of up to $1750.00 will support a residency artist for up to three days. In addition to honoraria for artists, funds support planning time and the writing of a residency-specific lesson plan/curriculum by the participating teacher. Up to 10 awards will be made
for this opportunity in 2026 for the spring semester of the 2025-2026 school year, or the fall semester of the 2026-2027 school year. This opportunity is provided through support from a “Regrants and Services Grant” of the New York State Council on the Arts. Funds must be used solely for honoraria. Travel and supply costs must be borne by the applicants
Link: https://forms.gle/2FMHdh3wvAA8BZeN6
Deadline: Available until 10 awards are made
Arts Mid-Hudson and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) announce the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a funding program with over $170,000 in NYSCA funds to support the arts in Dutchess, Orange, and Ulster Counties. This funding is available to individual artists to create new work in 2026, and to nonprofit organizations, Tribal Nations, individual artists, libraries, and municipalities for arts and cultural activities in 2026.
Deadline: Thursday, February 26th, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Link:https://www.artsmidhudson.org/statewide-community-regrants
Arts Center of the Capital Region
NYSCA Statewide Community Regrants (SCR)
The Arts Center is the SCR regrant site for Albany, Rensselaer, and Schenectady Counties. Grants are awarded through a competitive, peer-reviewed process, and technical assistance is available to help applicants apply. The Arts Center will award $112,000 total across all categories: Community Arts Grants, Arts in Education Grants, and Individual Artist Grants.
Link:https://capartscenter.org/nysca-statewide-community-regrants-scr
Deadline: Friday, March 20, 2026
Grants are available in three categories, Community Arts, Arts Education and Individual Artists. Auburn Public Theater is the SCR regrant site for Cayuga, Ontario, Seneca, Wayne, and Yates Counties. All new applicants are required to attend an informational seminar. Individuals and organizations are eligible for funding.
Deadline: March, 8th 2026 at 11:59PM
Link: https://auburnpublictheater.org/grants/
2026 Statewide Community Regrants Program
Earlville Opera House (EOH) and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) are pleased to announce the 2026 Statewide Community Regrants Program (SCR) available in Broome, Chenango and Otsego counties. Grants are available for not-for-profit organizations, municipalities and Tribal Nations, as well as individual artists or artist collectives. A total of $124,500 is available for projects taking place beginning April 1, 2026 and ending March 31, 2027. Of this amount $108,000 is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts and $16,500 is provided by the Stewart W. and Willma C. Hoyt Foundation for additional support in Broome County.
Link: https://www.earlvilleoperahouse.com/news/2026-scr-annoucement
Deadline: March 13th 2026.
Statewide Community Regrants (SCR) Program
The CNY ARTS Statewide Community Regrants (SCR) program funds projects taking place in Cortland, Herkimer, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga an Oswego Counties. There are five types of projects eligible for funding. Community Arts Projects, Community Arts Project MicroGrants, Arts Education Projects, Artist Commissions, and Special Projects community and cultural significance.
Project period January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2026.
Link: https://cnyarts.org/grants/statewide-community-regrants
Application Deadline: Friday, March 13, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Arts Services of Western New York
NYSCA SCR Grants
ASI’s SCR grants provide support for community-based arts programs and projects presented by any nonprofit organization, government entity/municipality, tribal nation, or individual in Erie, Niagara, or Chautauqua counties, and the Native nations that share this geography. The SCR program offers grants in three (3) categories: Community Arts, Arts Education, Individual Artist (Creation of New Work)
Link: https://www.asiwny.org/scr-grants/
Deadline: March 25, 2026