Upcoming Grant Deadlines and Opportunities (5/8/2019)
By Aisha Jordan, Program Associate at Fractured Atlas
The Clif Bar Family Foundation is accepting applications for the Small Grants program.
Description: Clif Bar Family Foundation supports innovative small and mid-sized groups working to strengthen food systems and communities, enhance public health, and safeguard the environment and natural resources.
These grants are awarded for general organizational support as well as funding for specific projects. Applications are reviewed three times a year; the deadlines are the 1st of February, June, and October. Grants awarded during a particular cycle will be announced at the beginning of the following cycle.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: June 1, 2019
The Mira Fellowship is accepting applications for its fellowship opportunity.
Description: Each year the Mira Fellowship accepts a small cohort from across the globe with visions of the cultural future. The fellowship helps participants research, test, and formulate this vision into a clear story and an actionable plan. The future is built from a set of specific actionable ideas available at any one time. The Mira Fellowship exists to make sure there are compassionate actionable visions that include all humans.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: June 1, 2019
The Vilcek Foundation is accepting applications for its 2020 Creative Promise Prizes in Literature.
Description: The foundation was established in 2000 by Jan and Marica Vilcek, immigrants from the former Czechoslovakia. The Vilcek Foundation mission was inspired by the couple’s respective careers in biomedical science and art history, as well as their personal experiences and appreciation for the opportunities offered to them as newcomers to the United States.
The foundation achieves its mission through several programs. The Vilcek Prizes are awarded annually in the arts and biomedical science to prominent foreign-born scientists and artists who are recognized leaders in their fields. Prizes are also awarded to younger foreign-born biomedical scientists and artists who have demonstrated exceptional promise early in their careers. These prizes were created to call attention to the seminal contributions made by immigrant professionals to the U.S.
The Vilcek Foundation will award three prizes of $50,000 each to foreign-born writers who have demonstrated outstanding achievement early in their careers. Eligible genres include fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: June 10, 2019
Film SF is accepting applications for the Film Space Grant for fiscal years 2019–2021.
Description: The San Francisco Film Commission Film Space (SFFCFS) grant is designed to provide financial assistance to nonprofit organizations that assist independent filmmakers by providing low cost office and film production space in San Francisco in order to facilitate film production activities in San Francisco.
Geographic Focus: San Francisco, CA
Deadline: June 10, 2019
New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) is accepting applications for its Creative City Boston Artist Grant.
Description: Creative City Boston Artist Grant provides project-specific funding to artists to create work that sparks public imagination, inspires community members to share in civic experience, and seizes opportunities to creatively engage important conversations taking place in Boston’s communities. By funding artists directly, NEFA is investing in artists’ creative agency as civic leaders in shifting public culture in Boston to be more equitable, diverse, and inclusive. Artist Grants range from $10,000-$20,000 per project.
Geographic Focus: Boston, MA
Deadline: June 17, 2019
The Fledgling Fund is accepting proposals for their Outreach and Engagement Fund and Rapid Story Deployment Fund.
Description: Fledgling is a small private foundation founded by Diana Barrett and guided by her vision that film and other creative media projects can educate, engage and mobilize us around entrenched and complex social issues that affect the most vulnerable. And, with the right support, at the right time, these visual stories can contribute to social change in important and unique ways. From the beginning, Fledgling has been focused on impact — the social impact of the projects they support and the foundation’s impact on the field.
- Outreach and Engagement Fund: Fledgling has an open, rolling application process for grants to support outreach and engagement for social issue documentary film projects that have the potential to inspire positive social change around issues that affect the health and well-being of the most vulnerable.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: Rolling
Center for Cultural Innovation is accepting applications for the Investing in Artists grants Program.
Description: The Investing in Artists grants program was established by the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) in 2007 to enhance the working lives and strengthen the creative support system for California artists working in all disciplines. Since that time, with the support of The James Irvine Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, CCI has awarded $2.19 million to 304 diverse artists working in various disciplines across the state.
Through the continued support of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, CCI is pleased to offer an additional three rounds of funding (2018–2020) for the Investing in Artists program for Bay Area performing and media artists.
Geographic Focus: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, Monterey and Santa Cruz counties.
Deadline: June 28, 2019
The Aaron Copland Fund for Music is accepting applications for its Performance Program.
Description: The program’s objective is to support performing and presenting organizations whose artistic excellence encourages and improves public knowledge and appreciation of serious contemporary American music.
Funds are available for General Operating Support for professional performing ensembles and presenting organizations with a history of substantial commitment to contemporary American music and with plans to continue that commitment. The program also provides Project Support for exceptionally important activities relating to contemporary American music proposed by professional performing ensembles and presenting organizations that do not normally feature contemporary American music in their programming.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: July 1, 2019
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