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.
If you have any questions or need more detailed information, please contact Program Officer of Arts, Culture, and Creative Entrepreneurship Casey Corritore at casey@erieartsandculture.org or 814-452-3427 x 108.
