Yes. Individuals, businesses, and nonprofit organizations are eligible to receive a grant award from LCEF one time per year, but not in consecutive grant rounds.
LCEF-HI connects uninsured and under insured cultural workers with affordable healthcare options. Our services include:
Finding doctors and dentists for cultural workers and their families
Helping cultural workers and their families access affordable prescription
Providing health screenings for cultural workers at festivals and other events
Giving information on healthcare programs that are available for your specific needs
Making it our ... read more →
All Louisiana cultural workers and their families
Retired Louisiana cultural workers who met eligibility while they were working
It costs nothing to register with LCEF-HI or to receive information, however:
If you choose to visit a doctor that you were referred to, then you will be charged based on your income and ability to pay, unless you are referred to a free clinic
If you need specialized treatment and testing, you will be referred to ... read more →
Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation Healthcare Initiative
101 Jefferson Street, Suite 100
Lafayette, LA 70501
337-366-8970
kathy@culturaleconomy.org
assist@culturaleconomy.org
www.culturaleconomy.org
Fill out our online LCEF-HI registration form to enter yourself in our system.
If you are in need of immediate care, we need to speak to you directly for more detailed information about your condition.
call our LCEF-HI office at 337-366-8970 or
email Kathy at kathy@culturaleconomy.org or
email Julie at assist@culturaleconomy.org
Yes – as long as it’s for a new unique opportunity; not for general marketing/promotion
No – we do not fund start ups or standard operating experiences – only specific, unique opportunities to earn new income.
Yes – as long as it’s associated with a specific, unique, new opportunity to earn income and fits within the grant budget.
No – we do not fund fundraising efforts, only projects that will generate an earned income stream
No – if your opportunity budget exceeds our maximum grant amount ($2500 for individuals, $5000 for businesses and nonprofits), then you need to tell us how you will secure the additional funds (either out of pocket or through other funding sources)—but there is no matching requirement.
We do not typically fund events unless it is a new opportunity for an organization to create a continued income stream.
Yes – the more unique/new it is, the better – but there are some cases where we’ll fund a very specific component of an ongoing project; in both cases, you need to demonstrate that our funding will be like “seed money” for you – opening up the opportunity for you to earn more income for ... read more →
Submit your operating budget and board of directors; please also create a document in Microsoft Word detailing your date of incorporation and why you don’t currently have a 990, then upload that document.
No, not typically – if your opportunity budget exceeds the amount requested from LCEF, we do look to see what other funding sources you have available to see how viable it is.
Use the contact information of the organization, not the grant writer. Both people should have access to the application user name and password.
You may email Lisa Picone at info@culturaleconomy.org or call the office at 504-895-2800. However, we encourage you to consult the guidelines carefully before requesting assistance.
No – We are not able to view the applications until you complete and officially click the submit button; you will receive a confirmation email once the application is officially submitted.
Yes. However you must first copy and paste the text into Text Edit or Notepad, then copy and paste it into the application.
Yes, you are encouraged to reapply. The number of applicants and money requested always exceeds the budget we have available for EOF grants.
We recommend before you submit your application a second time that you contact our grant administrator Lisa Picone by calling 504-895-2800 or email Lisa at lisa@culturaleconomy.org , so she may advise you on how to improve your application and make it stronger.
Yes, you can contact our grant administrator Lisa Picone at 504-895-2800 or email Lisa at lisa@culturaleconomy.org and she will review your application with you and give suggestions on how to improve it for the next grant round.
No – you can only apply for one opportunity per grant round; unless the two opportunities relate to each other and fit within the max grant budget.
You must show where the additional funds will come from. After the line-item budget section, if your budget exceeds what you’re requesting from us, there’s a box where you can type in additional funding sources. If it’s yourself, put self funded.
Yes. Organizations lacking 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status must arrange for a nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status to serve as fiscal agent for the grant. The fiscal agent assumes legal and financial responsibility for the applicant’s grant, so it is recommended that organizations applying with a fiscal agent draft an agreement outlining the terms of their ... read more →
Innovation & Increased Income
Louisiana’s cultural economy is defined as the people, enterprises, and communities that transform cultural skills, knowledge, and ideas into economically productive goods, services, and places. It includes: visual arts and crafts, performing arts, culinary arts, design, traditional culture bearers, entertainment, literary arts and humanities, and historic preservation.
The Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation Economic ... read more →
Individual Economy Cultural Workers:
Individuals must be professionally active in their discipline (artistic or cultural), earning income through their talents, and reside in Louisiana. If awarded a grant, individuals must provide a valid social security number. Originating and/or interpretive cultural work will be considered. Students are not eligible.
Nonprofit Cultural Economy Organizations:
Organizations must provide evidence of their ... read more →
Individuals, businesses, or nonprofit organizations that are not based in Louisiana
Students
Government entities/municipalities
Any individual, business, or nonprofit organization that was awarded an EOF grant in LCEF’s previous grant round. (You will be eligible again in our next round of funding.)
Step by step, we help you get to your appointment by providing contact information and directions for your chosen clinic. We help you determine what paperwork to bring in order to get the lowest affordable fee for your visit. We will also remind you about your appointment and follow up with you after ... read more →
Yes. LCEF-HI conducts numerous health screenings during the year throughout the state. We also send out email newsletters with tips for your wellbeing. In addition, we provide timely notices concerning potential health threats such as the flu, and how to get free or low cost assistance in your area.
LCEF-HI gives you clinic options and resources depending on where you live and what difficulties you are having. You make the ultimate decision about which choice is right for you. LCEF-HI wants you to have the best help in the area closest to your neighborhood. And, just like the hometown doctors of ... read more →
If you’re a Louisiana cultural economy worker, here’s what:
You can read about and apply for an economic opportunity grant that will fund a unique opportunity for you to increase your earned income.
You can find out more about healthcare options available to you
You can find out about free healthcare screenings near you
You can toot your own ... read more →
LCEF-HI provides health screening dates in the Calendar and Healthcare Screenings sections of our website and we send email notices to our cultural worker database.
Yes. We know that seeing the doctor is only the first step. We also know that costly prescription medications can put a strain on your income. LCEF-HI can connect you with resources that provide free medications to uninsured or underinsured individuals. LCEF-HI is also a qualified screening site for all the major pharmaceutical ... read more →
LCEF-HI believes prevention is the best way to keep you healthy and creating. We go onsite at festivals, backstage at concerts, in restaurants or anywhere our cultural workers are to check for three major prerequisites to bad health: blood pressure (stroke), blood sugar or glucose (diabetes) and cholesterol (heart disease). Should the screenings indicate ... read more →
Yes. All Louisiana cultural workers are eligible and can be helped. Our current satellite offices serve the following parishes: Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline, Iberia, Jeff Davis, Lafayette, Rapides, St. Landry, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Vermilion. But even if you live you live outside these parishes, please, give us a call if you ... read more →
