Apply To Toyota Alumni Fund

Fall Application Deadline: October 17, 2021, 11:59 p.m. EST

Fall Award Notification: Late November/Early December 2021

Spring Application Dates: TBD

All funds are distributed upon receipt of a signed contract from the grant recipient. All applicants will be notified of their award status.

• Alumni of Kentucky’s Governor’s School for the Arts, regardless of whether you have previously received a TAF grant and regardless of how many TAF grants you have previously received. Individual and group applications are acceptable. 
• For the Fall 2021 cycle, GSA is waiving the previous requirement that current TAF recipients must wait one year after receipt of their grant to reapply. 
• For the Fall 2021 cycle, GSA is waiving the previous requirement that grantees may receive a TAF award a maximum of 3 times.
  

• Costs associated with a training opportunity: tuition, printing, instructional fees, equipment, supplies, lodging, meals, travel, etc.
• Projects providing training opportunities for artists, e.g., a music training program for elementary aged students in a community, acting classes for adult actors, etc.
• Costs associated with the development of an arts-based project: equipment, space rental, marketing, artist fees, etc. Creation of materials to further promote the artist.
• For the Fall 2021 round of the Toyota Alumni Fund, GSA is waiving the previous requirement that no more than 50% of your proposed budget can be devoted to artist fees.  Please still present a comprehensive budget as possible in your application.

• Post-secondary tuition (i.e., college tuition)
• Re-imbursements for expenses that have already occurred or a project that has already been completed. 
  

• Minimum award per applicant: $100
• Maximum award per applicant: $5,000 (unique to Fall 2021)
• Partial funding of the request amount is at the discretion of the grant review panel.
• Applicants may apply for one grant per grant cycle. 
• A final grant report is required within six months of the completion of the professional development/project. 
  

A Final Grant Report is due six months after the completion of your professional development/project. Failure to complete and submit the final report will render the applicant(s) ineligible to apply in the future.  

Download the Final Grant Report document, here.