Manage Your Award

This page provides important information for LMCC’s Manhattan Arts Grants recipients about managing their award, along with links to forms required throughout the grant period.

  1. Grantee Contract (10 min)
  2. Crediting LMCC and Funders 
  3. Grantee Event Notification (10 min)
  4. Grantee Change Request (15 min)
  5. Grantee Final Report (45 min – 1 hour)

1. Grantee Contract: Required

LMCC will send grantees the Manhattan Arts Grants contract agreement through DocuSign for electronic signature. The document will be sent to the grant recipient’s email address.

In the contract, grantees will find:

  • Your responsibilities and deadlines as the grant recipient
  • LMCC’s responsibilities and deadlines as the grant administrator  and LMCC’s responsibilities as the administrator of the Manhattan Arts Grants
  • The total amount of the grant awarded
  • The funding sources of the grant awarded
  • Crediting language and instructions

Once the contract is signed through DocuSign, a copy will be emailed to the grantee. Grantees should keep this document for future reference.

2. Crediting Language & Logos: Required

All LMCC Grantees must properly credit LMCC and relevant funding sources on all print and electronic promotional materials related to grant-supported activities.

Please refer to your grant contract for exact crediting language and instructions.

Download LMCC & Funders’ Logos

3. Grantee Event Notification: Required

Creative Engagement and UMEZ Arts Engagement grantees must provide information about the public component of their supported projects. This allows LMCC to coordinate promotion of the awarded project and visits by LMCC staff, when possible. LMCC may highlight grantee events through its communication channels as capacity allows.We recommend submitting your Event Notification Form at least a week before the beginning of the month in which your event will take place:

Grantee Event Notification Form

Creative Learning grantees are required to notify LMCC staff of their sequential project activities by submitting the Project Activities Form.

Creative Learning Project Activities Form

4. Changes to Supported Activities: As Needed

All LMCC grantees must share any significant changes in the proposed grant-related activities with LMCC by submitting a Change Request Form prior to carrying out your project to receive approval from staff.

This is an optional form – If there are no changes to your proposed project, you do not have to submit this form.

Common supported changes include:

  • Postponement or cancellation of proposed activities
  • Change(s) in project location of proposed activities
  • Change(s) in the scope of the project (e.g. a reduced number of performances, a reduction in scale, or a significant change in the content of the proposed project)
  • Change(s) in key artistic or administrative project personnel or partner organizations

For more information about what constitutes a significant change, please refer to your grant contract and contact our staff.

PLEASE NOTE: The Change Request Form is connected to your grant application in Submittable. You should have received an email via Submittable notifying you that the form is available for your use.

Click below to locate it through your Submittable account.

Find My Change Request Form

5. Grantee Final Report: Required

All LMCC grantees must submit a Final Report form.The information collected helps LMCC to better understand the success and challenges of your work, share impact reports with our funding partners, and improve our services

PLEASE NOTE: The Final Report Form will be available in your Submittable account. You will receive an email alert that it’s ready for you.

Find My Final Report Form

Questions? 

For any questions, please reach out to CreativeEngagement@lmcc.net.