A financial and programmatic accounting of a grantee's implementation of its NYSCA grants. Failure to submit a final report will result in ineligibility to receive further NYSCA support.

The online form in which grant applicants provide project narratives and project budgets about their NYSCA requests. Access to this form is made using a link on the left navigation bar of the NYSCA on [..]

A series of questions, unique to each funding category,that the applicant answers as part of the application form. When the answers are displayed to the staff and advisory panelists, they form a descr [..]

A special panel, charged with reviewing appeals from grant applicants; it is comprised of former NYSCA panelists.

A report by a consultant on an arts event or activity, either as part of the review process or to establish eligibility for support in certain NYSCA discipline-based funding areas. In earlier editions [..]

Consultants with expertise in a particular art form or field are hired by NYSCA to conduct artistic evaluation or application reviews. Auditors and field representatives forward written reports to NYS [..]

Every person involved with NYSCA's grant-making process must make known any affiliations which may conflict, or appear to conflict, with the objective evaluation of a funding proposal. Any person [..]

These terms are used interchangeably in referring to the agency, the New York State Council on the Arts. "The Council" is also the 21-member board appointed by the Governor and approved by t [..]

A contract received by NYSCA grantees detailing the programs or services to be provided in exchange for public funds, and the terms governing the successful completion of the grant.

An organization that administers local or regional Decentralization regrant programs for community-based arts and cultural programs and activities. See a list of these programs.