Civic Practice Grants help Professional Company Members and their partners develop new and/or deeper relationships that lead to mutual understanding, sustained collaboration, shared projects, and programs that emerge from interconnections.

The grants are intended to support opera company efforts to learn more about civic priorities within their communities, to develop relationships with arts and non-arts organizations and their leaders, and to discover and deliver programs that serve the community as well as the presence and and build trust of opera and the opera company in the community.

Civic Practice Grants are supported by OPERA America's Opera Fund, which was launched by the National Endowment for the Arts with additional support from the Helen F. Whitaker Fund, the Mellon Foundation, and generous individual donors.

Grant Details

Civic Practice Grants of up to $50,000 will be awarded to support up to 100 percent of project costs. These grants are offered biennially.

Eligibility: OPERA America’s Professional Company Members based in the United States and Canada can apply. See the Guidelines for additional eligibility requirements.

 How to Apply

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