Become a grant panelist
Erie Arts and Culture seeks artists and administrators to serve as grant review panelists. Panelists play a crucial role in our grant-making process by reviewing applications, providing valuable insights, and helping select recipients for our funding programs.
What Does a Grant Panelist Do?
Learn Program Guidelines: Panelists participate in a 30-minute orientation session with the program officer to understand the program guidelines and evaluation process.
Review Applications: Panelists asynchronously read and score applications according to the program rubric, making constructive comments. The review period lasts about four weeks.
Panel Meeting: After the scoring period, panelists convene virtually for 1-2 hours to discuss applications, review scores, and make a funding recommendation.
Time Commitment: The overall time commitment is generally 4-8 hours.
Why Become a Grant Panelist?
Professional Growth: Serving as a panelist is a valuable professional development opportunity, especially for those applying for similar funding opportunities. It offers a chance to understand the review process and see what makes a strong, compelling application.
Honorarium: Panelists receive an honorarium for their time and expertise.
Diverse Representation: We aim to assemble review panels that represent the applicant pool in artistic discipline, geographic location, age, and race/ethnicity, among other considerations.
Filling out the application does not guarantee a person will be selected to serve as a panelist, but it is the first step in joining our team.
Questions? If you have any questions or need more detailed information, please contact our team at info@erieartsandculture.org.
