Founded in 1977, the New York State Council on the Arts’ (NYSCA’s) Statewide Community Regrants Program, (formerly the Decentralization Program or DEC), was developed to ensure that New York State’s cultural funding reaches every part of the state. Renamed the Statewide Community Regrant Program (SCR) in 2021, these grants have since become one of NYSCA’s most effective means of making arts support available to geographically, economically, and ethnically diverse segments of the state’s population.

The program forms the cornerstone of the Council’s partnership with local arts agencies throughout the state, providing a link between NYSCA and portions of the community that might not otherwise be able to access funding from NYSCA. Through SCR regrant funding, SCR sites such as the Arts Council for Wyoming County provide project support to a wide range of professional, vocational and educational arts and culture in their respective communities including the creation of new work by individual artists. Statewide Community Regrants serve as an umbrella for three distinct funding categories: Connect, Mentor and Elevate.

Congratulations Grantee!

Whether you have been selected to receive a Connect, Mentor, or an Elevate Grant, part of your responsibilities as a grant recipient, to remain in compliance with your grant contract, is to include the following language in all publicity, including signage. For paid promotion on social media sites, please pin this verbiage to the top of comments:

This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered in Wyoming and Allegany counties by the Arts Council for Wyoming County.

In addition, you must include the ACWC logo whenever possible. Images of the ACWC logo, (see button, below), should be downloaded for this purpose (click to download).