Child/Young Adult Group Grant for Production Funding : Scarlet Sock Foundation

The following application must be submitted by the theater organization producing the show. Beneficiaries of this grant are eligible to be considered if the majority of the involved young people have a demonstrated financial need, are between 5-23 years of age, are residents of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, or Berkshire counties of Western Massachusetts, and the majority are from historically marginalized populations.

Project Lead Name(Required)

First Last

Organization Name(Required)

Address(Required)

Street Address Address Line 2 City State / Province / Region ZIP / Postal Code Country

Email(Required)

Phone(Required)

STUDENT/PARTICIPANT DEMOGRAPHICS

Completion of this section helps SSF determine whether we are meeting our mission’s goals. Please answer the following questions to the best of your ability.

Total number of participating students(Required)

How many of your students are eligible for free or reduced lunch?

How many are first-time theater goers?

How many students come from single-parent households?

RACE/ETHNICITY

Completion of this section helps SSF determine whether we are meeting our mission’s goals. Please answer the following questions to the best of your ability.

How many of your current participants/students identify as Hispanic or Latino?(Required)

Regardless of your answer to the prior question, how many of your participants/students identify as:

Alaska Native

Asian or Asian American

Black or African American

Indigenous North American

Middle Eastern or North African

Multi-Racial or Multi-Ethnic

Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander

White

If none of the above apply, please specify additional ethnicities and the number of students who identify with each ethnicity:

GENDER (Required)

Completion of this section helps SSF determine whether we are meeting our mission’s goals. Please answer the following questions to the best of your ability.

If this information is already available to you, how many of the participants fall into the following categories?

Female

Male

Non-binary

Other

If other, please specify

AGE (Required)

Completion of this section helps SSF determine whether we are meeting our mission’s goals. Please answer the following questions to the best of your ability.

How many of your students/participants are in the following age brackets?

5-9

10-12

13-18

18-21

21-23

Your Project/Program

Program/Project Name(Required)

State your objective in 2-3 sentences(Required)

Briefly describe how your project will promote social justice?(Required)

Should we limit the characters for this one?

Describe the project/program and activities(Required)

This section is intended for a broader description of the details of your project.

Project Specifics(Required)

Please add rehearsal and production dates. Other examples may include the duration of the program, how many times the program meets, total number of hours of programming.

What are your goals for the participants in this project/program? Please be specific.(Required)

Ideally, the goals should be tangible and something you intend to measure. Examples: literacy, leadership skills, confidence, sense of belonging, etc. Ideally it will relate to a need in the community where you project takes place.

How do you intend to measure the project's impact and show that you've met your stated goals?(Required)

Please share a few questions you plan to ask your participants to measure the project’s impact. Formats for gathering this information could include a survey/poll, interview or short answer questions, for example. Please include the method/format you plan to use. If you have any questions about data collection, please reach out to us.

How will Scarlet Sock funds be applied to your project?(Required)

If this is year 2 or 3 for this grant, please note any changes/improvements in the proposed project based on learned successes and needs

Deleting this will delete entry data(Required)

Do we have all of the past applications stored somewhere?

Costs

Please attach a line item budget for this project

Max. file size: 256 MB.

Total Amount Requested(Required)

Post Program Expectations

Completion of a short data collection survey (to be completed by applicant) and an invitation to present at SSF’s annual Spring Gala.