2010 Sundance Institute /Alfred P. Sloan Commissioning Grant for Science or Technology Related Project Established in 2005, the Sundance/Sloan Commissioning Grant is an annual cash award for a science or technology related project that is at an early stage such as full treatment or early screenplay draft. This grant will also include a small stipend for a science advisor to provide support through consultation and feedback, as well as the possibility of inclusion in a Screenwriters Lab. Some of the projects that have recently been supported by Sundance and the Sloan Foundation at the Sundance Film Festival are Max Mayer's Adam, Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer, Chen Shi-zheng's Dark Matter, Andrucha Waddington's House of Sand, and Shane Carruth's Primer. Eligible applicants: Projects must have science or technology as a major theme or scientists as major characters. We cannot consider science fiction or projects that stray too far from a base scientific reality. Screenwriters with any level of experience, including numerous produced works, may apply. Projects must be narrative features and not documentary in nature. Projects must be English language. However, screenwriter does not need to reside in the U.S. Projects currently in development within the studio system are not eligible. Projects based on source material must have proper permissions and rights to use that material. Award ceiling: $20,000.
Bank of America is partnering with the Institute to provide grants to small museums, libraries, and archives. The grants will raise awareness and fund preservation of treasures held in small museums, libraries and archives. Grants will help to preserve specific items, including works of art, artifacts and historical documents that are in need of conservation. Eligible applicants: Institutions that fulfill the general criteria may apply. Award ceiling: $3,000. Application deadline: September 15, 2009.
The American Theatre Wing is accepting applications for the 2010 Jonathan Larson Grants. Originally administered by the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation (from 1997-2008), the grants are given annually to recognize emerging composers, lyricists, and bookwriters who work in musical theater. The grants are intended for artists with a demonstrated commitment and dedication to a career in musical theater. Applicant artists should be working professionally in the field. Eligible applicants: Individuals may apply as lyricists, composers, composer/lyricists, or composer/lyricist/bookwriters. Individual bookwriter applications are not accepted. Collaborative teams may apply together as composer and lyricist or composer, lyricist, and bookwriter. Collaborators who work together regularly are strongly encouraged to apply as a team. Award ceiling: N/A. Application deadline: August 29, 2009.
National Endowment for the Humanities invites projects in the humanities that explore stories, ideas, and beliefs that deepen our understanding of our lives and our world. The Division of Public Programs supports the development of humanities content and interactivity that excite, inform, and stir thoughtful reflection upon culture, identity, and history in creative and new ways. NEH offers two categories of grants for America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations: This is the Planning Grants. Eligible applicants: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education. Award ceiling: $1,000,000. Application deadline: August 26, 2009.
America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations grants support projects in the humanities that explore stories, ideas, and beliefs that deepen our understanding of our lives and our world. NEH offers two categories of grants for America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations: This is the Implementation Grants. Eligible applicants: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education. Award ceiling: $75,000. August 26, 2009.
Airborne Inc. has established the Airborne Teacher Trust Fund, a nonprofit charitable corporation, to fund art and music programs in elementary and middle schools that are in jeopardy of being lost or have already been eliminated due to budgetary limitations. Eligible applicants are elementary and middle-School teachers. A total of $250,000 in grants will be awarded in 2006-2007. Application deadline: ongoing.
The American Heritage Preservation Program, an initiative of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in partnership with Bank of America, seeks to fund the preservation of treasures held in small and mid-sized museums, libraries, and archives throughout the U.S. Grants of up to $3,000 are available for the purpose of preserving specific items, including works of art, artifacts, and historical documents that are in need of conservation. Projects in the following areas are eligible for funding: treatment of library, museum, and archival collections; improvement of collections storage; and environmental improvement of collections. The application deadline is September 15, 2009.
Arts in Crisis: A Kennedy Center Initiative is a program designed to provide planning assistance and consulting to struggling arts organizations throughout the United States. Open to non-profit 501(c)(3) performing arts organizations, the program will provide counsel from Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser and the Kennedy Center executive staff in the areas of fundraising, building more effective Boards of Trustees, budgeting, marketing, technology, and other areas pertinent to maintaining a vital performing arts organization during a troubled economy.
Miami-Dade County’s Cultural Affairs Department seeks to fund non-profit organizations developing small to medium scale community-based cultural arts programs, projects and events, such as fairs, parades, neighborhood festivals, conferences and publications. This program is particularly appropriate for projects which encourage the preservation of heritage and cultural traditions, and social service organizations and cultural groups developing collaborative intervention projects. Award ceiling: $7,500. Award ceiling: $7,500. Application Deadline and Workshop date: 2nd Quarter Cycle - Workshop date: September 10, 2009. Application deadline: September 21, 2009
The Conservation Assessment Program (CAP) is supported through a cooperative agreement between the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Heritage Preservation. The general conservation assessment (unlike a detailed collection survey) provides an overview of all of the museum’s collections as well as its environmental conditions and policies and procedures relating to collections care. The program supports a two-day site visit by conservation professional to perform the assessment. For museums located in historic structures, the grant supports a two-day site visit by a preservation architect. Assessment reports are then provided later. Eligible applicants: All types of museums, large and small, are eligible for funding. Eligible museums include aquariums, arboretums and botanical gardens, art museums, youth museums, general museums, historic houses and sites, history museums, nature centers, natural history and anthropology museums, planetariums, science and technology centers, specialized museums, and zoological parks. Application deadline: December 1, 2009.
The Conservation Project Support program awards grants to help museums identify conservation needs and priorities, and perform activities to ensure the safekeeping of their collections. Conservation Project Support grants help museums develop and implement a logical, institution-wide approach to caring for their living and material collections. Applicants should apply for the project that meets one of the institution’s highest conservation needs. All applications must demonstrate that the primary goal of the project is conservation care, and not collection management or maintenance. Grants are available for many types of conservation activities, including surveys (general, detailed condition, or environmental); training; treatment; and environmental improvements. Museums are encouraged to share the impact of conservation activities with their communities through outreach and programs. Eligible applicants: All types of museums, large and small, are eligible for funding. Eligible museums include aquariums, arboretums and botanical gardens, art museums, youth museums, general museums, historic houses and sites, history museums, nature centers, natural history and anthropology museums, planetariums, science and technology centers, specialized museums, and zoological parks. Award ceiling: $150,000. Application deadline: October 1, 2009.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) support fellowships at institutions devoted to advanced study and research in the humanities. NEH fellowships provide scholars with research time and access to resources that might not be available at their home institutions. Fellowship programs may be administered by independent centers for advanced study, libraries, and museums in the United States; American overseas research centers; and organizations that have expertise in promoting research on foreign cultures. Individual scholars must apply directly to the institutions themselves. Eligible applicants include: City, Township, State governments; Public, Private, and State controlled institutions of higher education; Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized); and Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS. Award ceiling: $700,000. Application deadline: August 20, 2009.
The Division of Cultural Affairs administers a variety of grant programs for non-profit Florida organizations, supporting a wide range of cultural activities, which provide access to the arts for all of Florida's residents and visitors. Through these programs, the Division helps sustain communities through organizational growth and stabilization, by providing funding for cultural projects, and through the construction and expansion of cultural facilities. Award ceiling: various. Application deadline: various.
The Guitar Center Music Foundation's mission is to aid nonprofit music programs across America that offer music instruction so that more people can experience the joys of making music. The applicant program must successfully enhance the state of music education in the U.S. 501(c)(3) organizations that offer music instruction programs to participants of any age are eligible to apply. Grant awards range from $500 to $5,000. Applications are accepted at any time and reviewed 3 times a year.
The Jim Henson Foundation awards grants for the creation and development of innovative works of puppet theater. Project grants of $5,000 are awarded for the continued development and production of new works ready to be presented in the coming year. Seed grants of $2,000 are provided for the development and workshopping of pieces in the earlier stages of creation. The Foundation also offers grants of $3,000 for the development of new and innovative work specifically for children and families. Applications for international collaborations are accepted, but the primary artist and fiscal sponsor must be American. Projects that will only take place outside of the United States are not eligible for funding. Awards can be made only to IRS tax-exempt organizations. Deadline for letters of intent is April 24, 2009; invited proposals are due September 14, 2009.
Johnson & Johnson, working in partnership with the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, seeks to promote the use of the arts to enhance the healthcare experience for patients, their families, and caregivers. From 2001 to 2009, the partners have provided grants to 117 programs in the United States and Canada representing leading models and initiatives in high quality healthcare through the use of arts. Proposals are now being sought from healthcare and/or arts organizations that have established arts in healthcare programs with evidence of initial impact. Eligible applicants: Must be a current member of Society for the Arts in Healthcare, located in the U.S. or Canada (partners may be international), and a nonprofit organization or a governmental agency (state or local, including education or institutions). Award ceiling: $60,000. Application deadline: October 15, 2009 Letter of Inquiry.
This program supports projects to develop faculty and library leaders, to recruit and educate the next generation of librarians, to conduct research on the library profession, and to support early career research on any area of library and information science by tenure-track, untenured faculty in graduate schools of library and information science. It also supports projects to attract high school and college students to consider careers in libraries, to build institutional capacity in graduate schools of library and information science, and to assist in the professional development of librarians and library staff. Eligible applicants: Libraries. Award ceiling: $1,000,000. Application deadline: December 15, 2009.
Museums for America is the Institute’s largest grant program for museums, supporting projects and ongoing activities that build museums’ capacity to serve their communities. Museums for America grants strengthen a museum’s ability to serve the public more effectively by supporting high-priority activities that advance the institution’s mission and strategic goals. Museums for America grants are designed to be flexible: funds can be used for a wide variety of projects, including ongoing museum work, research and other behind-the-scenes activities, planning, new programs, purchase of equipment or services, and activities that will support the efforts of museums to upgrade and integrate new technologies. IMLS also welcomes proposals that promote the skills necessary to develop 21st century communities, citizens, and workers. Eligible applicants: All types of museums, large and small, are eligible for funding. Eligible museums include aquariums, arboretums and botanical gardens, art museums, youth museums, general museums, historic houses and sites, history museums, nature centers, natural history and anthropology museums, planetariums, science and technology centers, specialized museums, and zoological parks. Award ceiling: $150,000. Application deadline: November 2, 2009.
The National Projects Fund from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is seeking proposals to support select national projects that strengthen the health of the dance, jazz, presenting, and/or theater fields. National projects must engage a broad national constituency, occur once (or periodically) rather than annually, and have the potential to significantly impact a field. Eligible projects include national research, national public awareness activities, cross-discipline collaborations (including national meetings or conventions), and other national activities. Award ceiling: $200,000 over two years (not to exceed 40% of total project cost). Single nonprofit organizations and consortia are eligible to apply. Application deadline: open.
The National String Project Consortium (NSPC) is a coalition of String Project sites based at colleges and universities across the United States. The NSPC is dedicated to increasing the number of children playing stringed instruments, and addressing the critical shortage of string teachers in the U.S. The NSPC is affiliated with businesses, foundations, professional music organizations, and individuals who support these goals. The consortium seeks to help support the creation of up to ten more String Projects which will be centers of excellence in the training of string teachers around the country. Each center will receive up to five years of grant support from the NSPC, to be matched each year by $10,000 from the host college. The university's match may include the income from the fees charged for the lessons and classes, and it may include in-kind expenses such as secretarial help for running the program. Application deadline: November 17, 2009.
Through American Masterpieces, the National Endowment for the Arts will sponsor performances, exhibitions, tours, and educational programs across all art forms that will reach large and small communities in all 50 states. This component of American Masterpieces will celebrate the extraordinary and rich evolution of chamber music in the United States. Through performances and related educational activities, American chamber music of the highest quality will be experienced by Americans in communities across the nation. Eligible applicants: Nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3), U.S. organizations; units of state or local government; or federally recognized tribal communities or tribes may apply. Award ceiling: $75,000. Application deadline: October 08, 2009.
Through American Masterpieces, the National Endowment for the Arts will sponsor performances, exhibitions, tours, and educational programs across all art forms that will reach large and small communities in all 50 states. This component of American Masterpieces will celebrate the extraordinary and rich evolution of dance and choreography in the United States. Through American Masterpieces: Dance, reconstructions and restaging of significant work of the highest quality will be experienced by Americans in communities across the nation. Eligible applicants: Nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3), U.S. organizations; units of state or local government; or federally recognized tribal communities or tribes may apply. Award ceiling: $150,000. Application deadline: October 08, 2009.
Through American Masterpieces, the National Endowment for the Arts will sponsor performances, exhibitions, tours, and educational programs across all art forms that will reach large and small communities in all 50 states. This component of American Masterpieces will celebrate the extraordinary and rich contribution that presenting organizations make in American communities. Through American Masterpieces: Presenting, presentations of the performing, visual, media, design, and literary arts of the highest quality will be experienced by Americans in communities across the nation. Eligible applicants: Nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3), U.S. organizations; units of state or local government; or federally recognized tribal communities or tribes may apply. Award ceiling: $100,000. Application deadline: September 24, 2009.
Through American Masterpieces, the National Endowment for the Arts will sponsor performances, exhibitions, tours, and educational programs across all art forms that will reach large and small communities in all 50 states. This component of American Masterpieces will celebrate the extraordinary and rich evolution of the visual arts in the United States. Through the creation and touring of major exhibitions, art of the highest quality will be experienced by Americans in communities across the nation. Eligible applicants: September 17, 2009. Award ceiling: $300,000. Application deadline: September 17, 2009.
The National Endowment for the Arts seeks to make the excellence and diversity of the arts widely available to the American public through nationally distributed television and radio programs. The Arts Endowment's support of a project may start on or after May 1, 2010. Grants are available to support the development, production, and national distribution of radio and television programs on the arts. Priority will be given to artistically excellent programs that have the potential to reach a significant national audience, regardless of the size or geographic location of the applicant organization. Only programs of artistic excellence and merit, in both the media production and the subject, will be funded. Eligible applicants include: City, Township, County, State governments; Public, Private, and State controlled institutions of higher education; Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized); Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS; Special district governments; and Independent school districts. Award ceiling: $200,000. Application deadline: September 3, 2009.
The National Endowment for the Arts seeks projects that consist of one or more specific events or activities; it may be a part of an applicant's regular season or activities. Organizations that undertake a single short-term project in a year (i.e. a ten-day jazz festival) could apply for that event, or they could identify certain components (such as the presentation of a key artist and the associated activities) as their project. Eligible applicants include: State Governments; Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Federally recognized); City, Township, County Governments; Special District Governments; Independent school districts ; Public, Private and State controlled institutions of higher education; and Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS. Award ceiling: $150,000. Application deadline: August 13, 2009.
Individual translators who meet the publication requirements that are listed below are eligible to apply. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States. See "How to Prepare and Submit an Application" for the documentation that is required to demonstrate eligibility. Ineligible applications will be rejected without panel review. An individual may submit only one application for FY 2011 funding. You may not apply for both a Translation Project under this deadline (January 7, 2010) and a Creative Writing Fellowship under the March 2010 deadline (when fellowships in poetry are offered). Eligible applicants: Individuals. Award ceiling: $25,000. Application deadline: January 07, 2010.
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) support ancillary public humanities programs to accompany NEH on the Road traveling exhibitions. Typical formats involve lectures, reading and discussion programs, film discussion programs, Chautauqua presentations by scholars, family programs, exhibition tours, or other appropriate formats for reaching the general public. Eligible applicants include: nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status and has already received a confirmed booking for one of the NEH on the Road exhibitions through Mid America Arts Alliance. Award ceiling: $1,000. Application deadline: December 31, 2009.
The National Endowment for the Humanities invites proposals for local and regional projects that foster collaboration between K-12 educators and humanities scholars to encourage engagement with the rich resources of American art to tell America's story. The Picturing America School Collaboration Projects grant opportunity is designed to help teachers and librarians whose schools display the Picturing America images form connections with courses in the core curriculum. These projects will be grounded in the great works of art included in Picturing America, which is part of the Endowment's We the People program. Eligible applicants include: City, Township, County, State governments; Special district governments; Independent school districts; Public, Private, and State controlled institutions of higher education; Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized); and Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education. Award ceiling: $75,000. Application deadline: October 7, 2009.
The State of Florida Quarterly Assistance Program has four main goals in funding: to act as an introductory grant program for new organizations or organizations with no prior Division grant experience; to capture "sudden opportunities" for projects of arts organizations (that is, opportunities that were not anticipated or known in time for other grant program application deadlines); to promote professional development for arts organizations within the Consultant, In-Service Training, or Staff Exchange categories; and to provide a place for small Division-initiated projects or to provide organizations with a larger funding request for special projects that are broader in scope than what is offered by the mini-grant. Arts organizations are eligible for funding in all five grant subcategories; non-arts organizations are eligible for funding in only the Special Project category. Award ceiling: 1 to 1 dollar for dollar match. Application deadline: April 13, July 13, and October 12, 2009.
The Sundance Institute/Alfred P. Sloan Commissioning Grant is an annual cash award for a science- or technology-related film that is at an early stage of development, such as full treatment or early screenplay draft. The program is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and administered by the Sundance Institute. Eligible applicants: Projects must have science or technology as a major theme or scientists as major characters. Science fiction projects or projects that stray too far from a base scientific reality will not be considered. Projects must be narrative features and not documentary in nature. Projects must be in the English language, but the screenwriter does not need to reside in the U.S. Projects currently in development within the studio system are not eligible. Award ceiling: The award includes a cash grant of up to $20,000 to provide support during the writing period, a stipend of up to $5,000 for a science advisor, plus creative support during the writing process from a select group of advisors, the possibility of a fellowship to a Sundance screenwriters lab, and strategic and practical support from the Sundance feature film program staff. Application deadline: September 8, 2009.
The Social Science Research Council and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership have announced the Abe Fellowship for Journalists to encourage in-depth coverage of topics of pressing concern to the United States and Japan through individual short-term policy-related projects. Eligible applicants: The competition is open to citizens of the United States and Japan with at least five years of professional journalistic experience in newspapers, newsmagazines, wire services, and online news organizations. Freelancers are also eligible. Nationals of other countries must be permanent residents of the United States or Japan, or have a long-term affiliation with the American or Japanese journalistic communities. The program provides support for six weeks in Japan or the United States, starting April 1, 2010. The term may be divided between the principal destination and another country. Award ceiling: $23,500.
The State Touring Program (STP) seeks to bring live performance to every corner of the state by the finest of Florida's performing and visual artists. The program has two components: STP Presenters and STP Roster. The Presenters component supports live performances by Florida's performing and visual artists by providing matching grants to non-profit organizations wishing to present companies listed on the State Touring Roster. Priority is given to under-populated counties. Applicants (presenters) may request fee support to represent artists featured in the State Touring Program Roster. The Roster component offers presenters a menu of peer-reviewed artists (solo and companies) from which to select bookings for their organizations. Eligible applicants include: Florida-based artists or organizations that have a touring program in place. Presenters deadline: May 1, 2009; Roster deadline: August 2009.
The National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to scholars and general audiences in the humanities. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly tools. Summer Stipends support full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months, support projects at any stage of development, and are awarded to individual scholars. Eligible applicants include: Individuals. Award ceiling: $6,000. Application deadline: October 1, 2009.
The Surdna Foundation is pleased to announce the tenth round of the Surdna Arts Teachers Fellowship Program, a national initiative to support the artistic revitalization of outstanding arts teachers. We have expanded our eligibility guidelines and awards this year. Arts teachers working in specialized public arts high schools and arts-focused magnet and charter high schools can apply for grants of up to $5,500 in support of artistic growth, with a complementary grant of $1,500 provided to each fellow's school for post-fellowship activities. Surdna's goal is to help arts teachers in public arts high schools increase their effectiveness as they guide and train young people for careers or advanced study in the visual, performing, and literary arts. The foundation believes that if teachers can immerse themselves in their own creative work and interact with professional artist/colleagues, they will bring new ideas and practices into the classroom. Twenty awards of up to $5,500 each will be made. Letters of Intent to Apply will be due by November 13, 2009.
The Theatre Communications Group/International Theatre Institute Travel Grants are designed to support cultural exchange and artistic partnerships between theatre professionals in the United States and their counterparts in Russia and Eastern/Central Europe. Grants will be provided for trips in either direction by theatre artists, administrators, and educators, enabling these professionals to share ideas, gain exposure to each other's cultural traditions and theatre techniques, and/or work together. Eligible applicants: Individual applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents who wish to initiate or continue relationships with artists and theatre companies in Russia and/or Eastern or Central Europe. Award ceiling: $3,500. Application Deadline: September 21, 2009.
The Tides Foundation is seeking general operating proposals from indigenous organizations working to preserve and enhance the rights, health, safety, and education of women and girls in native communities. Applications will be accepted from nonprofit organizations. United States-based organizations must include the organization's IRS determination letter. Non-U.S. organizations must provide government-issued documentation certifying that the organization is a non-governmental organization. Grant awards will range from $15,000 to $40,000 each.
French American Cultural Exchange (FACE), a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting contemporary creative work in the context of French-American cultural and educational exchange, has announced a new season of the Tournees Festival, a program designed to bring contemporary French cinema to college and university campuses in the United States. To be eligible for a grant, applicants must be affiliated with an American university or college with nonprofit status. Qualifying candidates must plan to show the films for which they are seeking the support of the Tournees Festival as part of a festival, and screenings of all films must take place within a one-month period. The festival should consist of a minimum of five films. The films may be presented as part of a larger festival of French or international films. The Tournees Festival distributes a total of over $200,000 in grants annually. Schools that show films in 35mm will receive a grant of $2,300 to show their five films ($460 per film). Schools that show films on DVD will receive a grant of $1,800 to show their five films ($360 per film). Schools that show a combination of DVD and 35mm prints will receive a grant corresponding to each film's format. The program has two application deadlines: June 30, 2009 for film festivals in the fall semester, and October 1, 2009 for film festivals in the spring semester.
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