In 2023, HAA launched the Grants Working Groups. These groups now play a major role in creating the annual grants evaluation. The groups are composed of arts community members who review and provide input on every aspect of the grants process. HAA invites arts community leaders, arts managers, artists, and creatives to join the 2025 Grant Working Groups.
Throughout their engagement, the working groups provide input on how HAA supports grantees, grant term touch points with grantees, and final reporting, as well as the annual evaluation itself, marketing and launch of grant opportunities, guidelines and applications for our annual programs, and panel adjudication. The feedback from the working sessions will become the majority of the content of the 2026 Annual Grants Evaluation, which is presented to the Grants Committee of the board of HAA and then to the city.
