REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

WIOA Service Providers— work2future

The City of San José’s (“City”) Office of Economic Development’s San José Silicon Valley Workforce Development Board (“WDB”), work2future seeks proposals from qualified organizations (“Proposers”) to provide Adult/Dislocated Worker, In-School Youth, and Out of School Youth Services to its local service delivery area.

The three services are unique and involve separate proposals. Organizations are encouraged to apply to all the programs to which they are qualified for.

Application deadline is Friday, January 24, 2025, 5:00 p.m. PST.

Proposal responses must be submitted online through WebGrants prior to the proposal due date and time.

Pre-proposal Technical Assistance Conference via Zoom: Thursday, December 5, 2024, from 10-11:00 a.m. PST

https://sanjoseca.zoom.us/j/97328986068?pwd=yjtC1yoe9t0LATh2Vt0LHBMMAHc1o5.1

All questions please contact Dat Luu: dat.luu@sanjoseca.gov

City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA)

FY 2025-2026 Operating Grant (OpG) Program

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY:

The Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA), a division of the Office of Economic Development and Cultural Affairs (OEDCA) announces its 2025-2026 Operating Grant (OpG) Program 

PURPOSE: OCA's Operating Grants provide unrestricted financial support for selected San Jose arts and cultural organizations at various stages of development.

GRANT GUIDELINES: OCA'S FY 2025-2026 Operating Grant Guidelines can be downloaded from the OCA Operating Grants webpage.

PRE-APPLICATION WORKSHOP: Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 10:00 AM. Register at the OCA Operating Grants webpage.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2025 BY 4:59 PM (PST)

SAFE SUMMER INITIATIVE GRANT (SSIG) 2025

The City of San José Department of Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services’ Safe Summer Initiative Grant is now accepting applications for summer 2025.  Applicants proposing services that run from June 1, 2025, through August 31, 2025, are encouraged to apply. 

Interested agencies are invited to attend a pre-proposal workshop to review critical information about the grant program and learn how to apply for this funding opportunity. The pre-proposal workshop is scheduled for Monday, December 16, 2024, from 10:00 a.m.- 11:00 a.m. via zoom ( Password: 298938). Meeting ID: 960 3644 1712

To register and access the application, please go to http://grants.sanjoseca.gov/index.jsp. Completed proposals can only be submitted on-line via WebGrants. Proposals must be submitted by 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 16, 2025.  

If you have questions or need additional information, please contact Dennis Bolger, Grants Analyst at Dennis.bolger@sanjoseca.gov

WELCOME NEW USERS: You must register before using WebGrants.

To begin the registration process please click on the Register Here link above.  You will receive a response via email confirming your registration.  The average time for registration to be complete is three (3) business days.

Required fields are starred (*),  all other fields are at the discretion of the Program Manager of the Funding Opportunity you are applying for.

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CITY OF SAN JOSÉ 

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY BEAUTIFYSJ CYCLE 7 2025 

APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED 

The deadline for the 2025 BeautifySJ Grant Program (Cycle 7) has been extended to Wednesday, December 18, 2024, by 4:00 p.m. 

Completed proposals must be submitted online using one of the following platforms dependent on your group’s status of either a ‘New Applicant’ OR a ‘Current Eligible Provider’.  If you have questions regarding your group’s status, please contact Adriana Vargas at adriana.vargas@sanjoseca.gov. 

*NEW APPLICANTS: Proposals will only be accepted online via WebGrants. To register for a WebGrants user ID and to access the application, please go to: http://grants.sanjoseca.gov/index.jsp.   

*CURRENT ELIGBLE PROVIDERS listed on the Eligible Service Provider list for Cycle 6: A Request for Proposal (RFP) must be submitted through Microsoft Forms.   

The BeautifySJ Grant Application, Q&A, and helpful tutorials are available in the ‘BeautifySJ Grant Cycle 7, 2025’ Funding Opportunity.

APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED AFTER 4 PM ON DECEMBER 18, 2024 WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.  

No exceptions due to negative impacts to the dates of final award and funding.  

take pART Grants for Participatory Arts and Culture Projects 

take pART Grants are awarded to arts and culture organizations, other public benefit organizations, and artists and collectives partnered with a fiscal sponsor/receiver (501c3) to help finance specific arts and culture activities and programs that are participatory. Grantees are usually smaller artist-run groups or community arts organizations where creative participation is the key. Other public benefit organizations may apply to this program to support arts-specific activities.  

Application Deadline:

Friday, January 24, 2025, 4:59 PM PST

NOTE:  See Section 4 for Online Application Submittal Requirements

See Office of Cultural Affairs website for details here:

https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/cultural-affairs/grants-program/take-part-grants

take pART: Cultural Participation and Community Engagement Grants (hereinafter referred to as “take pART Grants”) support arts activities offered by non-professional arts organizations and community service organizations with continuing arts programs, as well as small semi-professional and professional arts organizations seeking to secure City support for specific arts activities, rather than general operating support.

take pART Grants are intended to serve as partial support for arts activities, with awards no more than half of a granted project’s budget and usually significantly less. take pART Grants are intended to support one project or program per organization. All applicants are highly encouraged to include the full costs of the project or program in the budget section, including all administrative costs, overhead, insurance costs, facilities, artists, marketing, and all other operational and production costs born by the program or project.

Eligible activities include, but are not limited to, community-based arts projects that involve San Jose residents directly in the artistic process, as well as projects by small artist-centered groups that do not have the need to build the kinds of institutional infrastructure required of Operating Grant applicants.

take pART Grants support three guiding principles of Cultural Connection, San Jose’s plan for cultural development in the coming decade:

ü  Cultural Participation: Supporting residents’ personal, active participation in arts and culture.

ü  Cultural Pluralism: Using culture as a connector and fostering a “cultural commons” through arts and culture.

ü  Public Value of the Arts: Using personally meaningful arts experiences to help achieve community goals and create a better San Jose.

take pART Grants are intended to encourage:

¢  Opportunities for public participation in arts and cultural activities;

¢  Life-long arts and cultural education programs outside the school setting;

¢  Expressions of culturally specific traditions of San Jose’s diverse population;

¢  Opportunities to experience and engage in the arts in neighborhood and community settings; and

¢  Arts programs that serve the needs of the clients of health and social service institutions.