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Other Grants

National Endowment for the Arts Media Arts on Radio & Television

WHAT: Grants support the development, production, and national distribution of radio and television programs on the arts.
DEADLINE: September 5, 2008
INFO: www.arts.gove/grants
POSTED: June 18, 2008

Reader’s Digest Foundation – Inspiring Stories from the Public

WHAT: The Foundation will donate a total of $1 million to non-profit organizations through a new initiative called “Make it Matter.” Grants will be inspired by individuals who are taking action by giving back to their communities.
DEADLINE: rolling
AWARDS: Grants are $100,000 each
INFO: www.makeitmattergrants.com
POSTED: April 22, 2008

Princess Grace Foundation-USA – 2008 Awards in Theater, Playwriting, Dance, Choreography, and Film

WHAT: The foundation is dedicated to identifying and assisting emerging artists in theater, dance, and film and awards
grants to individual artists across the United States.
DEADLINE: Various 2008
AWARDS: scholarships and general operating support to organizations
INFO: “www.pgfusa.org”: http://www.pgfusa.org/
POSTED: March 11, 2008

Lego Children’s Fund to Support Youth Creativity Programs

WHAT: Foundation supports nonprofit organizations that inspire and encourage youth creativity.
DEADLINE: quarterly
AWARDS: $500-5,000 generally with one annual award of $100,000 to one organization
INFO: www.legochildrensfund.org
POSTED: August 17, 2007

The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

WHAT: Through the Arts Program, the Foundation supports the important work of institutions dedicated to the decorative arts. An additional focus is on the preservation and conservation of national cultural treasures.
DEADLINE: Letters of inquiry may be submitted at any time.
INFO: www.tiffany.com
POSTED: August 17, 2007

Surdna Foundation Arts Program – Creative Writing Residencies for Teens

WHAT: New initiative supports young creative writers through the development of summer creative writing retreat program.
DEADLINE: Open
INFO: www.surdna.org
POSTED: August 17, 2007

The Wachovia Foundation – Community Needs Grant

WHAT: Grants support the efforts of arts and cultural nonprofit organizations that address specific community needs.
DEADLINE: Ongoing
INFO: www.wachovia.com
POSTED: June 11, 2007

The Guitar Center Music Foundation Grant

WHAT: The foundation aims to assist nonprofit music programs.
DEADLINE: Ongoing
AWARDS: $500 to $5000 each
INFO: www.guitarcentermusicfoundation.org
POSTED: June 11, 2007

National Endowment for the Arts Grants for Art Projects

WHAT: Three categories for organizations – Access to Artistic Excellence, Challenge America: Reaching Every Community Fast-Track Review Grants, and Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth.
DEADLINES: Various (check NEA website)
AWARDS: $5,000-$150,000
INFO: www.arts.gov
POSTED: January 24, 2007

The Surdna Foundation – Creative Writing Residencies for Teens

WHAT: Funding supports a new initiative in recognition of young creative writers. The foundation is seeking proposals from writers’/artists’ colonies which have experience with
or an interest in working with young people, to develop a summer creative writing retreat program for teens.
DEADLINE: Ongoing
INFO: www.surdna.org/usr_doc/creative_writing_rfp.pdf
POSTED: February 1, 2007

The Arthur Vining Davis Foundation

WHAT: The foundation aims to provide financial assistance to certain cultural institutions.
DEADLINE: Ongoing
INFO: www.avdfdn.org/programs.htm
POSTED: January 9, 2007

The Guitar Center Music Foundation Grant

WHAT: The 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.
DEADLINE: Reviews of all applications takes place three times annually.
AWARDS: $500 to $5000
INFO: www.guitarcentermusicfoundation.org/submit/index.cfm?sec=info
POSTED: November 29, 2006

Barnes and Noble Corporate Contributions Program to Support Literacy, Arts and Education

WHAT: Barnes & Noble supports local and regional nonprofit organizations that focus on literacy, the arts, or education (K-12). Applicants must be located in the communities where company stores are located.
DEADLINE: Ongoing
INFO: www.barnesandnobleinc.com/our_company/sponsorship/Sponsorship_main.html
POSTED: November 29, 2006

Google Grants Program Provides In-Kind Advertising Services to Nonprofits

WHAT: The Google Grants program supports organizations that share the company’s philosophy of community service worldwide in areas such as science and technology, education, global public health, the environment, youth advocacy, and the arts. Designed for 501{c}{3} nonprofit organizations, Google Grants is a unique in-kind advertising program that harnesses the power of Google’s flagship advertising product, Google AdWords, to non- profits seeking to inform and engage their constituents online.
DEADLINE: Ongoing
AWARDS: Google Grant recipients use their award of free AdWords advertising on Google.com to raise awareness and increase traffic. Each organization awarded a Google Grant receives at least three months of in-kind advertising.
INFO: fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10003588/google
POSTED: November 29, 2006

William Randolph Hearst Foundations – Education, Health, Social Service and Culture

WHAT: The foundations provide support for endowments, specific programs or projects, a limited number of challenge grants and general operating support within the following funding priorities:
Education – Support is provided for efforts that ensure students access to a quality education. Preference is given to institutions of higher education, particularly in the fields of teaching and health care.
Health – Support is provided for programs that seek to improve and assure access to quality health care for underserved populations in both urban and rural areas.
Social Service – Support is provided to human service agencies that foster effective solutions to social and economic problems.
Culture – The foundations support programs that enrich the lives of young people by engaging them in cultural activities, primarily through arts-in-education programs.
DEADLINE: Ongoing
AWARDS: $50,000 – $250,000
INFO: hearstfdn.org/index.html
POSTED: August 29, 2005

National Trust for Historic Preservation – National Trust Loan Funds

WHAT: Loans may be used for acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, restoration, bridge funding, predevelopment, mini-permanent financing and capitalizing revolving funds. Lines of credit are also available for acquisition and construction. Properties must be local, state or nationally designated historic resources; contributing resources in a certified local, state or national historic district; resources eligible for listing on a local, state or national register; or locally recognized historic resources.
DEADLINE: Ongoing
AWARDS: Loans up to $350,000
INFO: (800) 944-6847
POSTED: August 29, 2005

Wachovia Foundation – Education, Community Development, Health and Human Services and Arts and Culture

WHAT: Foundation funding facilitates access to and participation in cultural experiences for persons with low-to-moderate incomes and ensures the availability of a broad array of artistic opportunities/venues that reflect the diversity of the community.
DEADLINE: Ongoing
AWARDS: $5,000 – $100,000
INFO: www.wachovia.com/inside/page/0,,139_414_430,00.html
POSTED: August 29, 2005

The Wallace Foundation – Education Leadership and Arts Participation

WHAT: Most grants awarded by the foundation are to foundation-initiated programs. The foundation usually solicits proposals from grantees identified through a screening process. Organizations wanting to secure an invitation should send a letter of inquiry describing the project and particulars of the organization. The foundation acknowledges receipt of all letters and will request more information (if interested) within four weeks.
DEADLINE: Ongoing
AWARDS: $100,000 – $500,000
INFO: www.wallacefoundation.org/GrantsPrograms
POSTED: August 22, 2005

Sprint Foundation – Education, Arts/Culture and Youth

WHAT: The Sprint Foundation makes direct grants and also administers a matching gift program for eligible Sprint employees and retirees. Funding interests include education, arts and culture and youth development.
DEADLINE: Ongoing
AWARDS: up to $50,000
INFO: Ralph Reid,(913) 762-3767; www.sprintproposals.com/default.asp?tab=2
POSTED: August 22, 2005

Kresge Foundation Bricks and Mortar Program – Challenge Grants for Capital Projects

WHAT: Challenge grants from the foundation are provided for the construction or renovation of facilities, the purchase of major equipment or an integrated system and/or the purchase of real estate. The foundation believes that a challenge grant toward an organization’s capital project does more than just build a building or reward good programs. It presents an opportunity to build institutional capacity by helping an organization broaden and deepen its base of support from the private sector and by encouraging volunteer involvement in the fund raising effort and beyond.
DEADLINE: Ongoing
AWARDS: $150,000 – $600,000
INFO: www.kresge.org/content/displaycontent.aspx?CID=24
POSTED: July 11, 2005

Nathan Cummings Foundation

WHAT: The foundation’s core programs include arts and culture; the environment; health; inter-program initiatives for social and economic justice; and the Jewish life and values/contemplative practice programs.
DEADLINE: Ongoing
AWARDS: $50,000 – $300,000
INFO: www.nathancummings.org/programs/000016.html
POSTED: June 20, 2005

Ford Foundation Providing Funding for Various Programs

WHAT: The Ford Foundation is an independent organization entirely separate from the Ford Motor Company. The Foundation supports projects that help strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement. The foundation provides funding for various programs and projects with a focus on knowledge, creativity, and freedom. Further subdivisions of this broad interest area include education and scholarship, sexuality and reproductive health, religion, society, and culture.
DEADLINE: Open; however, before a request is made for a grant or program-related investment, a brief letter of inquiry is recommended.
AWARDS: variable
INFO: (212) 573-5000; office-secretary[at]fordfound.org; www.fordfound.org/about/guideline.cfm
POSTED: April 4, 2005

National Dance Project Accepting Nominations for Production Grants

WHAT: The National Dance Project, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, provides a system of support for the discipline of contemporary dance by supporting the production and distribution of dance in the United States. Every season, NDP awards fifteen to twenty Production Grants for the creation of new dance work that will tour nationally. Funds support a project’s development through production of the work. Grants, which are highly competitive, are awarded to dance projects based on nominations. Nominators may be artists, managers, presenters, agents, or choreographers; self-nominations by dance companies will also be considered.
DEADLINE: Ongoing
AWARDS: $15,000 – $35,000
INFO: (617) 951-0010; info[at]nefa.org; www.nefa.org/grantprog/ndp/
POSTED: February 8, 2005

Metlife Foundation

WHAT: The MetLife Foundation offers grants in the areas of education, health, and civic and cultural organizations.
WHEN: Ongoing
INFO: How To Apply: Metlife Foundation
POSTED: November 16, 2004

Cingular

WHAT: Cingular supports community-based programs and organizations that address educational, cultural, and social issues that affect the quality of life in the communities where we work and live.
WHEN: Ongoing
INFO: Cingular: Community Support
POSTED: November 16, 2004

The Shelly and Donald Rubin Foundation

WHAT: The Mission of the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation is to support innovative efforts to transform society’s institutions, thereby making them more responsible, and to empower individuals to develop their full potential. The Foundation is primarily interested in supporting the inclusion of art from non-Western European cultures into the mainstream of scholarship and display. In addition, the Foundation is interested in the study of the relationship between art, culture and humanity. In particular, the Foundation’s interest is the collection, care, preservation, study and public display of the ancient art of the Himalayas, with the related goal of exploring the relationships between this art and that of other cultures. In addition, the Foundation supports cultural and arts programs which encourage individual and community identity. Art related projects eligible for funding most often fall within the areas of enhancing the Foundation’s web site, tibetart.org preserving Himalayan art; supporting educational activities reaching a broad constituency; supporting Himalayan art and architecture restoration projects as well as Traveling Exhibits bringing Himalayan art to new audiences.
DEADLINE: Ongoing submitted. Letters of intent are accepted at any time, and receipt of all letters will be acknowledged.
AWARDS: The range of funding is between $5,000 – $60,000 maximum, with most grants falling between $5,000 and $15,000.
INFO: www.sdrubin.org
POSTED: November 16, 2004

The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation

WHAT: This foundation offers a Humanities Program, Performing Arts Program, Research Library Program, and makes grants to organizations in support of Venetian scholarship and culture.
DEADLINE: Ongoing
INFO: www.delmas.org/programs/index.html
POSTED: November 16, 2004

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

WHAT: The mission of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is to improve the quality of people’s lives by nurturing the arts, protecting and restoring the environment, seeking cures for diseases, and helping to protect children from abuse and neglect. The Arts Program supports performing artists with the creation and public performance of their work.
DEADLINE: Ongoing
AWARDS: The foundation generally awards multi-year grants that range from $125,000 to $3.5 million.
INFO: www.ddcf.org
POSTED: November 16, 2004

The Jaqua Foundation

WHAT: The Jaqua Foundation’s mission is to fund collegiate education, welfare of animals, and performing arts.
WHEN: Ongoing
INFO: www.fdncenter.org/grantmaker/jaqua/
POSTED: November 16, 2004

Caterpillar Foundation Grants

WHAT: The Foundation awards grants nationally and internationally in support of the arts. Types of support include general operating support, capital campaigns, program development, and employee matching gifts.
DEADLINE: Ongoing
AWARDS: Grant Range: $50,000 to $1,200,00
INFO: www.cat.com/cda/layout?m=39201&x=7