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Grants
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Falmouth Cultural Council Announces Call for Grant Proposals
Deadline: Monday, October 15th
The Falmouth Cultural Council is seeking proposals from Falmouth individuals and organizations for projects in the areas of arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences.
Application forms and additional information about applying for the grants can be found at the reference desk of the Falmouth Public Library, the main desk at Town Hall, and on the FCC website at www.arts-cape.com/falmouthcc
All proposals must be submitted to Town Hall by 4:00 PM on Monday, October 15th.
Potential applicants with questions are invited to bring them to the next Falmouth Cultural Council meeting. It is scheduled for 6:00 PM, October 1, at Town Hall.
The Massachusetts Cultural Council allocates grant funds to all city and town Cultural Councils for distribution as local grants. This year, Falmouth has received $4,000 for the encouragement and support of the arts in Falmouth.
The emphasis this year will be on proposals for Public Art Projects which contribute to the cultural vitality of the community as a whole. In addition, we are seeking and encouraging proposals from groups and individuals who do not normally apply.
The application is relatively easy compared to most other grants, and the kinds of projects funded are often of a small to medium scale. Most grants are in the $200 to $500 range, with only the occasional grant to $1,000.
Falmouth Cultural Council chairman, Marty Tulloch may be contacted at 508-563-2327.
The Massachusetts Cultural Council
YOUTHREACH INITIATIVE
Applications Due: February 6, 2008
FY2009 Funding Guidelines Now Available
The YouthReach Initiative provides funding to programs that integrate substantive out-of-school arts, humanities and science opportunities into a collaborative community response to the needs of youth at risk.
Guidelines, application forms, and the schedule of information and training sessions are available online.
Questions? Please contact H. Mark Smith, YouthReach Program Manager, at mark.smith@state.ma.us ( mailto:mark.smith@state.ma.us )
Taproot Foundation Accepting Applications for Capacity-Building Service Grants
Deadline: September 15, 2007
The Taproot Foundation engages highly-skilled business professionals to deliver capacity-building services to nonprofit organizations in New York City, Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, and Seattle. A service grant from the Taproot Foundation can provide an organization with the tools and resources necessary to achieve specific goals and objectives in their strategic plan, marketing/communications plan, technology plan, and staffing structure. Each type of Service Grant produces tangible deliverables that are tailored to meet the unique needs of each recipient.
The Boston office expects to award five (5) Service Grants during the September grant round. We strongly encourage applications for an Annual Report, Brochure, and Key Messages & Brand Strategy Service Grant. Taproot Foundation will be accepting applications from all nonprofits that meet our basic eligibility requirements.
Visit the foundation's Web site for complete program information: www.taprootfoundation.org. For questions call Mick Minard: (718) 923 –1400, Ext. 251; OR email: mick@taprootfoundation.org
Grants Listing on Boston Beyond's Site
The George Sugarman Foundation –
George Sugarman (1912-1999), was a prolific, controversial, and forward-thinking American artist. His sculptures, drawings, and paintings defy a definitive style. As an innovator in pedestal-free sculpture and vividly painted metal sculptures, Sugarman was continually expanding on the metamorphoses of his prodigious creativity.
Always interested in the well-being of dedicated, young, and developing artists, Sugarman provided for them in his will. Thus, the establishment of The George Sugarman Foundation, Inc.
The Creative Capital
Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program
Apply online starting: August 6, 2007
Deadline: September 12, 2007
Initiated by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and administered by Creative Capital, the Arts Writers Grant is a three-year pilot program designed to support critical writing on contemporary visual art through project-based grants issued directly to individual authors. The first program of its type, it was founded in recognition of both the financially precarious situation of arts writers and their indispensable contribution to a vital artistic culture. Through awards for books, articles, short-form writing, and work in new and alternative media, the Arts Writers Grant aims to honor and encourage:
- Writing about art that is rigorous, passionate, eloquent, and precise
- Writing about contemporary art in which a keen engagement with the present is infused with an appreciation of the historical
- Writing about art that is neither afraid to take a stand, nor content to deliver authoritative pronouncements, but serves rather to pose questions and to generate new possibilities for thinking about, seeing, and making art
- Writing about art that is sensitive to both the importance and difficulty of situating aesthetic objects within their broader social and political contexts
- Writing about art that does not dilute or sidestep complex ideas but renders accessible their meaning and value
- Writing about art that challenges creatively the limits of existing conventions, without valorizing novelty as an end in itself
Approximately fifteen to twenty grants will be awarded per annual cycle, ranging from $3,000-$50,000. Art historians, artists, critics, curators, journalists, and practitioners from other fields that engage contemporary visual art are welcome to apply.
The Arts Writers Grant will open for on-line submissions on August 6, 2007.
The deadline for grant applications is September 12, 2007.
For more information, please visit http://www.artswriters.org
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