Manage Your Grant

This page is intended for grant recipients to help you manage your grant. (For more information on types of grants available, click here.)

On this page, you will find:

1. Grant Management 
2. A Public Relations Toolkit
3. FAQs for Grantees

Grant Management

The following materials are intended to help you track the required and recommended steps for grant management throughout the grant period.

How To View Your Grant, Reporting Forms, and Additional Forms in the Submittable Portal

You can view your grant documents at any time by logging into your account and clicking on the Submissions link at the navigation bar at the top left of the page.

1. Your personal Submissions List is organized into categorized tabs.
2. Locate the submission you want to view, and click on the name (or number) of the submission.
3. You’ll be taken to the submission’s details page where you’ll see various tabs for information about your submission:

• The Activity tab shows any activity associated with that submission, such as any status changes or message notifications.
• The Messages tab contains a record of messages that have been sent between you and the CMA.
• The Forms tab shows the content of your original submission, plus any additional forms that have been sent to you in association with your initial submission.
• The Notes tab enables submitters to make notes to themselves regarding each submission. Please note: the Notes tab is not a communication tool; nothing that a submitter writes here will be seen by the organization.​

4. To return to your Submissions list, click Submissions at the top of the page.

Grant Agreement and Grant Guidelines

Refer to your Grant Contract to ensure that you are adhering to the grant requirements. You can find your Grant Agreement in your original email from CMA via DocuSign. You can also contact CMA for a copy of your agreement.

Announcing Your Grant Award

Please review the instructions under “Public Relations Toolkit” and “Announcing Your Grant”

Publicity for Your Grant Activities

Please review the instructions under “Public Relations Toolkit” and “Publicity – Informing CMA About Publicity for Your Grant”

For help with your specific grant, contact CMA staff:

José Feliciano, Director of Grant Programs, at jfeliciano@chambermusicamerica.org (New Jazz Works, Performance Plus, Presenter Consortium for Jazz)

Susan Dadian, Associate Director of Grant Programs, at sdadian@chambermusicamaerica.org (Ensemble Forward & Classical Commissioning).

Adriana Vergara, Grants Programs Associate, at avergara@chambermusicamerica.org (Artistic Projects, New Jazz Works).

Requesting Changes to Your Grant

If you have any major changes to your grant, you must request a change of approval form to track this change.

Major changes to your grant include:

• Changes in ensemble members paid with CMA grant funds
• Your project will not be completed by the end of your grant period
• Your bank information or address has changed
• Your Primary Contact has changed

If you need to request approval for changes to your grant please reach out to your CMA Grant Programs contact (listed above) so they can activate the appropriate form in your Submittable portal.

Scheduling a Call With The Grant Department

Please use the link to schedule a time to talk with the Grants Department. The Grants Department will use the number you provide to call you or use the email you provide to send a Zoom link.

Public Relations Toolkit

Announcing Your Grant Award
We kindly request that you refrain from sharing news of your award until after CMA has shared the formal press release or news of the grant awards via its newsletter or social media channels.

Funder Acknowledgements

• You will find the funder acknowledge language in Section 5 of your grant contract. (This language will be specific for your grant.)
• Required Uses of Acknowledgement and/or Acknowledgement Copy: The Acknowledgement Copy should permanently appear on all publicly distributed materials, whether in print or digital form, or as part of any live announcements and broadcasts referring to the Grant, such as:
  • All marketing, press, advertising materials (e.g.: posters, postcards, press releases, program notes, etc.);
  • All broadcast and online activity;
  • All educational materials;
  • All stage and live announcements;
  • All documentation and/or recordings.

CMA Logo Files

You should make every effort to use the CMA logo in conjunction with the acknowledgement as part of all project releases and related publicity, advertising, and documentation materials for the grant. You can find our logos here:

• CMA logo with black text
• CMA logo with white text

Keep CMA Informed

CMA welcomes all tagged posts that announce new works, performances, or other important grantee announcements. Please keep in mind that we receive an overwhelming number of submissions and cannot guarantee that each will be reposted. Still, CMA strives to amplify many as possible submissions as possible from grantees and members.

Please tag @chambermusicamerica on Instagram and Facebook. You can also use the hashtags,  #chambermusicamerica and #CMAgrantee.

Please also send information or press releases to cmanews@chambermusicamerica.org to let CMA know about upcoming performances or exciting press received in connection to your grant projects.

Sample Press Release

• Download a sample press release here