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National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement Grants
Award: up to $350,000 Deadline: 6/24/22
The Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program (DHAG) supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. The program also supports research that examines the history, criticism, ethics, and philosophy of digital culture or technology and its impact on society.
Center for Craft Archive Fellowship
Award: $5,000 | Deadline: 6/27/22
The 2022 Craft Archive Fellowship will foster archival research on underrepresented and non-dominant craft histories in the United States, such as feminist, intersectional, queer, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and other communities and approaches that may not be specifically listed here. The fellowship will support a range of scholars, including independent, artists, and emerging to established researchers. Six Center for Craft Archive Fellows will receive a $5,000 stipend to conduct research in an archive of their choosing. These fellows may engage in both conventional and innovative approaches to archival research that will be disseminated through virtual public programming in partnership with the American Craft Council and a publishing opportunity in a Summer 2023 Special Issue on Hyperallergic.
Russel Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar Fellowships
Award: up to $125,000 | Deadline: 6/28/22
The Russell Sage Foundation’s Visiting Scholars Program provides a unique opportunity for select scholars in the social, economic, political and behavioral sciences to pursue their data analysis and writing while in residence at the foundation’s headquarters in New York City. The foundation annually awards 15 to 17 Visiting Scholar fellowships. Applicants must be at least two years beyond the Ph.D. when applying, and if selected, typically work on projects related to the foundation’s core programs (Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity and Immigration; Social, Political and Economic Inequality) and special initiatives.
Queer | Art Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists
Award: $10,000 | Deadline: 6/30/22
Queer|Art is pleased to introduce The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists. Developed and named in partnership with Mariette Pathy Allen, Aaryn Lang, and Serena Jara, this new annual $10,000 grant, awarded to draw attention to an existing body of work, sheds light on the under-recognized contributions of Black trans women visual artists and provides critical support to their continuing work. Winning artists will receive additional professional development resources and further guidance to bolster their creative development in the field.
New York Public Library Martin Duberman Visiting Fellowship
Award: $25,000 | Deadline: 6/30/22
The Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar program at The New York Public Library promotes excellence in LGBTQ+ studies by supporting scholars engaged in original, archivally-based research. The fellowship is open to established and emerging scholars, both academics and independent scholars. The recipient of the award will be expected to utilize the LGBTQ+ collections at NYPL, though is not expected to confine themselves to those collections. The recipient is required to give a public talk at the Library on their work for the fellowship.peer collections, as well as trends in LGBTQ+ studies. Applications are evaluated based on their originality, contribution to the scholarship, use of archives, and the potential impact of the funding on furthering their project.
Queer | Art Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists
Award: $10,000 | Deadline: 6/30/22
Queer|Art is pleased to introduce The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists. Developed and named in partnership with Mariette Pathy Allen, Aaryn Lang, and Serena Jara, this new annual $10,000 grant, awarded to draw attention to an existing body of work, sheds light on the under-recognized contributions of Black trans women visual artists and provides critical support to their continuing work. Winning artists will receive additional professional development resources and further guidance to bolster their creative development in the field.
ACA Soundscape Field Station at Canaveral National Seashore ACA residency program
Award: $2,400 | Deadline: 6/30/2022
ACA Soundscape Field Station at Canaveral National Seashore is a partnership between Atlantic Center for the Arts and Canaveral National Seashore. It is the first of its kind in the United States dedicated to preservation of natural sound, following in the tradition of other types of successful U.S. National Park Service artist-in-residence programs located in more than 100 parks throughout the country. The goal for each artist-in-residence is to find innovative approaches that help preserve a healthy and balanced soundscape for current and future generations. This program invites sound artists, musicians, composers, field recordists, and soundscape researchers to live and work in Doris Leeper’s historic home in Canaveral National Seashore for 5 weeks.
PAM Center for an Untold Tomorrow Sustainability Labs
Award: $2,500 | Deadline: 7/1/22
The Sustainability Labs are at home in Portland where locally based, boundary-pushing artists like Kelly Reichardt (First Cow), Donal Moser & Michael Palmieri (The Gospel Of Eureka), Skye Fitzgerald (Hunger Ward), Mobile Projection Unit and Rose Bond, work alongside companies and creators of XR, gaming, branded content, and experiential storytelling.LAIKA (Kubo and the Two Strings) and Shadow Machine (Tuca and Bertie) work with top artists and animators. Experiential, XR and multimedia branded opportunities are growing. With companies like Netflix and A24 currently in production—attracting talents such as Guillermo del Toro and Jordan Peele—and series from Top Chef to Shrill recently created here, Portland and PAM CUT continue to evolve the narrative.
National Endowment for the Arts Grants for Arts Projects
Award: $10K – $100K | Deadline: 7/7/22
Grants for Arts Projects is our principal grants program for organizations based in the United States. Through project-based funding, the program supports public engagement with, and access to, various forms of art across the nation, the creation of art, learning in the arts at all stages of life, and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life.
MASS MoCA Studios at MASS MoCA
Award: none | Deadline: 7/8/2022
The Studios is MASS MoCA’s artist and writers residency program situated within the museum’s factory campus and surrounded by the beautiful Berkshire Mountains. We offer great studio space and housing (private rooms in shared apartments), one group meal per day, member-access to MASS MoCA’s galleries, and access to professional development webinars though our “Assets for Artists” program.Operated by MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists program, the residency runs year-round and hosts up to 10 artists at a time. Artists of any nationality can apply for stays of 2-8 weeks.
Loghaven Artist Residency
Award: $850 | Deadline: 7/15/22
The Studios is MASS MoCA’s artist and writers residency program situated within the museum’s factory campus and surrounded by the beautiful Berkshire Mountains. We offer great studio space and housing (private rooms in shared apartments), one group meal per day, member-access to MASS MoCA’s galleries, and access to professional development webinars though our “Assets for Artists” program.Operated by MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists program, the residency runs year-round and hosts up to 10 artists at a time. Artists of any nationality can apply for stays of 2-8 weeks.
National Endowment for the Humanities Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Award: $50,000 – $350,000 | Deadline: July 19, 2022
HCRR advances scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities by helping libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country steward important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. The program strengthens efforts to extend the reach of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible. Awards also support the creation of reference resources that facilitate the use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation.
Environmental Protection Agency Let’s Talk About Heat Challenge
Award: $12,000 (10 available) | Deadline: July 22, 2022
To help address this need, EPA and co-sponsors have launched the Let’s Talk About Heat Challenge, a national competition to identify innovative and effective communication strategies that inform people of the risks of extreme heat and offer ways to keep safe during the hottest days. The challenge was developed in support of the National Climate Task Force’s Extreme Heat Interagency Working Group, which is being led by EPA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with support from the White House. Winning solutions will include identification of and engagement with people known to be most susceptible to extreme heat risks, including but not limited to underserved and overburdened communities. Winners will share suitable messages, strategies used to reach target audiences with those messages, and proposed measures of effectiveness. Communication methods might include social media, billboards, graphics, public service announcements and other forms of communication. The challenge sponsors hope to identify ways to monitor the effectiveness of these heat risk campaigns and messages and share the best practices with communities across the nation.
Russel Sage Foundation Research Grants (funding priorities TBD)
Award: up to $175,000 | Deadline: letter of intent due 7/27/22, finalist proposals due 11/15/22
We provide support primarily for analyzing data and writing up results, and particularly welcome innovative projects that collect or analyze new data to illuminate issues that are highly relevant to the foundation’s funding priorities. We also encourage projects that are interdisciplinary and combine both quantitative and qualitative research. RSF rarely considers projects for which the investigators have not already fully-developed the research design, the sample framework, access to data, etc. Priority areas are: the future of work; race, ethnicity, and immigration; social, political, and economic inequality; immigration and immigrant integration; social, political, and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic; behavioral science and decision making in context. Read more about our funding priorities at https://www.russellsage.org/research/categories/requests-proposals.
Hyundai Motor Group VH Award
Award: $25,000 – $50,000 + online residency | Deadline: 7/28/22
The VH AWARD supports emerging Asian media artists to share their artistic experiments and amplify their voices on diverse issues by offering the opportunity to participate in the online residency program and showcase their works across various global platforms. Initiated in 2016, the VH AWARD has been discovering and cultivating promising artists engaged with the context and future of Asia. The award emboldens the artists who are working at the edges of audiovisual creation to challenge how we understand ourselves and each other in relation to the past, present, and future. The VH AWARD is hosted by Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) and is led by Hyundai Motor Company, as a part of HMG’s commitment to supporting cross-cultural innovation and development.
Institute for Nonprofit Practice Black Leadership Institute
Award: fully funded fellowship (20 available) | Deadline: 7/30/22
The Black Leadership Institute (BLI) — publicly announced on December 1, 2021 — seeks to connect, inspire, and uplift senior-level Black leaders doing important work across the country and across sectors. Through transformative programming, BLI supports Black leaders with the resources, network, content, and community to build upon their social, financial, knowledge, and cultural capital as they step into positions of greater power and influence. BLI brings together a national cohort of Black leaders in senior roles across the nonprofit, philanthropic, public, and private sectors who are leading in fields or on issues with significant outcome disparities for Black people, i.e. workforce development, incarceration and recidivism, health and health care, environmental justice, poverty, and education, for an 18 month fellowship program.
Faena Arts Faena Prize
Award: $25,000 stipend + $75,000 for fabrication | Deadline: 8/1/22
A biennial prize, the Faena Prize for the Arts recognizes artistic experimentation, encourages post-disciplinary and temporal exploration, and promotes inquiry of the multiple links between art, technology, and design. Considered one of the most prestigious art prizes in the Americas, Faena Art will award the winning proposal a total of $100,000. This new edition of the Faena Prize for the Arts will take place for the first time in Miami and the winning proposal will be exhibited at Faena Beach during Miami Art Week 2022. Cementing Faena Art’s commitment to supporting artists at any stage in their career, this year’s open call aims to summon multidisciplinary artists to imagine temporary and site-specific projects to be installed at the Faena Beach while engaging with the cultural and urban conditions of the city of Miami.
Women’s Studio Workshop Anita Wetzel Residency Grant
Award: up to $28,500 | Deadline: 8/1/22
Anita Lynn Wetzel was the founding spirit of Women’s Studio Workshop. In her life and in her art she epitomized generosity and grace. Anita was a true humanist, in one with nature. In honor of Anita’s legacy, her friends and WSW are establishing the Anita Wetzel Residency Grant at Women’s Studio Workshop. The Anita Wetzel Residency Grant is a new opportunity focused on mature artists (45 years old and up) to create new work and fully immerse themselves in WSW’s supportive environment. This residency gives artists the gift of time, 4-6 weeks, to live and work away from the stresses of daily life. Artists may choose to work in any one or more of our studios: intaglio, letterpress, papermaking, screen printing, darkroom photography, or ceramics. This residency is fully subsidized. WSW provides housing and studio space at no cost. Additionally, the selected artist will receive a stipend of $350/week, up to $500 for materials used during the residency, and up to $250 toward travel within the Continental US. Artists receive a thorough studio orientation and are expected to work independently, although studio staff is available to provide assistance. Deep technical assistance can be arranged for an additional fee. The artist is responsible for any other expenses such as meals and incidentals while in residence.
Northeast Sustainable Agriculture and Research Professional Development Grant Program
Award: $30,000 to $150,000 | Deadline: 8/2/22
The Northeast SARE Professional Development Grant Program funds train-the-trainer projects that develop the knowledge, awareness, skills and attitudes among the full range of service providers who work with farmers, including agricultural professionals who teach, advise and assist farmers about sustainable agriculture practices and strategies as well as non-agricultural service providers (e.g., attorneys, lenders, etc.) that work with farmers. These service providers then use the knowledge, awareness, skills and attitudes they gain in their work with farmers.
New York Foundation for the Arts Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants
Award: $5,000 | Deadline: 8/2/22
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is proud to partner with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation to administer the Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants. Robert Rauschenberg was committed to assisting fellow artists in need of emergency medical aid, ultimately establishing the nonprofit foundation Change, Inc. in 1970. In this spirit, this program is designed to serve artists in financial need who otherwise may delay critical treatment or incur substantial and perhaps overwhelming debt. We recognize the urgency of caring for and helping one another and, while artists are famously self-sufficient, we encourage you to ask for support when needed. This is a competitive grant program. Please review our eligibility requirements and the eligible types of expenses to determine that you are eligible before applying. If you have questions, please contact the grants administrator. This project is supported by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
National Endowment for the Humanities Public Humanities Projects
Award: $75,000 – $450,000 | Deadline: 8/10/2022
The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. Awards support projects that are intended to reach broad and diverse public audiences in non-classroom settings in the United States. Projects should engage with ideas that are accessible to the general public and employ appealing interpretive formats.
National Endowment for the Humanities Media Projects
Award: $75,000 – $1,000,000 | Deadline: 8/10/2022
The Media Projects program supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films, and documentary film series that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. Projects must be grounded in humanities scholarship and demonstrate an approach that is thoughtful, balanced, and analytical. Media Projects offers two levels of funding: Development and Production.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions
Award: up to $565,000 | Deadline: 8/10/2022
The Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions (FPIRI) program supports institutions that provide fellowships for advanced humanities research in the U.S. and abroad, foster communities of intellectual exchange among participating scholars, and provide access to resources that might otherwise not be available to the participating scholars.
Commerce RI Innovation Network Matching Grant
Award: up to $100,000 | Deadline: 8/31/2022
Innovation Network Matching Grants are provided to organizations to expand existing efforts to offer technical assistance, space on flexible terms, and/or access to capital to Rhode Island small businesses in key industries and require at least a 50% match from the applicant. The Network Matching Grant program is presently not soliciting grant applications, but check back often for updates on when the grant program will reopen.
Kress Foundation Conservation Grants
Award: undisclosed | Deadline: LOI due 9/1/22, finalist deadline 10/1/22
The Conservation Grants program supports the professional practice of art conservation, especially as it relates to European works of art from antiquity to the early 19th century. Grants are awarded to projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, including archival projects, development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, exhibitions and publications focusing on art conservation, scholarly publications, and technical and scientific studies. Grants are also awarded for activities that permit conservators and conservation scientists to share their expertise with both professional colleagues and a broad audience through international exchanges, professional meetings, conferences, symposia, consultations, the presentation of research, exhibitions that include a prominent focus on materials and techniques, and other professional events.
Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grants
Award: undisclosed | Deadline: LOI due 9/1/22, finalist deadline 10/1/22
The Digital Art History Grants program is intended to foster new forms of research and collaboration as well as new approaches to teaching and learning. Support may also be offered for the digitization of important visual resources (especially essential art history photographic archives) in the area of pre-modern European art history; of primary textual sources (especially the literary and documentary sources of European art history); for promising initiatives in online publishing; and for innovative experiments in the field of digital art history.
Kress Foundation History of Art Grants
Award: undisclosed | Deadline: LOI due 9/1/22, finalist deadline 10/1/22
The History of Art Grants program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century. Grants are awarded to projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, including archival projects, development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, museum exhibitions and publications, photographic campaigns, scholarly catalogues and publications, and technical and scientific studies. Grants are also awarded for activities that permit art historians to share their expertise through international exchanges, professional meetings, conferences, symposia, consultations, the presentation of research, and other professional events.
Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Fellowships
Award: up to $50,000 | Deadline: 9/1/22
Scholarly research undertaken in the field of contemporary art is funded through Curatorial Research Fellowships. Curators at any stage of their careers are eligible to apply and must have the formal support of an insitution and its director. It is assumed that research will lead to a significant exhibition, though this is not a requirement.
Andy Warhol Foundation Exhibition Support
Award: $60,000 – $100,000 | Deadline: 9/1/22
Proposals are accepted for solo or two person shows and thematic group exhibitions taking place between 6 months and 2 years after the grant notification date (July 1st and January 1st). We are interested in supporting artists whose work has been less celebrated than that of their peers, whose commitment to their practice has been under recognized yet has had a significant impact on the current (and upcoming) generation of artists.
Andy Warhol Foundation Multi-year Program Support
Award: $60,000 – $100,000 | Deadline: 9/1/22
Proposals are accepted for two years of visual arts programming. This can include exhibitions, residencies, public art works, screenings, performances, lectures, publications, mentorships and other professional development opportunities for artists.
Furman University True Inspiration Artist in Residency
Award: $6,000 | Deadline: 9/1/22
The Artist in Residence program at Furman University awards one residency each academic year to an artist or designer interested in developing a body of work in collaboration with students and faculty at the University. While the length of residency is flexible, with a minimum of six weeks, we encourage artists to consider staying for a full semester term, and invite them to also teach an undergraduate foundations studio art course. If approved, the teaching artist or designer would receive additional compensation, according to current adjunct rates at the university. The residency culminates in a solo exhibition and presentation of the work produced over the residency period. The True Inspiration Artist Residency is part of The Furman Advantage, a program that aims to build educational value through tailored student experiences. Through direct engagement and collaboration with practicing artists and designers, students gain valuable experiences that help shape their education. To witness and partake in the creation of a defined work from idea to realization is the centerpiece of the True Artist Residency.
National Endowment for the Humanities Humanities Connections
Award: 9/1/22 | Deadline: 9/1/22
The Humanities Connections program seeks to expand the role of the humanities in undergraduate education at two- and four-year institutions. Awards support innovative curricular approaches that foster partnerships among humanities faculty and their counterparts in the social and natural sciences and in pre-service or professional programs (such as business, engineering, health sciences, law, computer science, and other technology-driven fields), in order to encourage and develop new integrative learning opportunities for students.
National Endowment for the Humanities Dialogues on the Experience of War
Award: up to $100,000 | Deadline: 9/1/22
The Dialogues on the Experience of War program supports the study and discussion of humanities sources that address the experiences of military service and war from a wide variety of perspectives. In recognition of the importance of the humanities in helping Americans to understand the meaning and experiences of military service and war, Dialogues projects encourage veterans and civilians to reflect collectively on such topics as civic engagement, veteran identity, the legacies of war, service, and homecoming. Project teams should include humanities scholars, military veterans, and individuals with relevant experience.
MacDowell Fellowship
Award: no-cost residency | Deadline: 9/10/22
MacDowell accepts applications from artists working in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theatre, and visual arts. The sole criterion for acceptance is artistic excellence, which MacDowell defines in a pluralistic and inclusive way. MacDowell encourages applications from artists representing the widest possible range of perspectives and demographics, and welcomes artists engaging in the broadest spectrum of artistic practice and investigating an unlimited array of inquiries and concerns. To that end, emerging as well as established artists are invited to apply. Applicants cannot be enrolled in a degree-seeking program during the residency season for which they are applying. Doctoral candidates who have completed all coursework may apply.
William T Grant foundation Institutional Challenge Grant
Award: $650,000 | Deadline: 9/14/2022
Applications are welcome from partnerships in youth-serving areas such as education, justice, child welfare, mental health, immigration, and workforce development. We especially encourage proposals from teams with African American, Latinx, Native American, and Asian American members in leadership roles. The partnership leadership team includes the principal investigator from the research institution and the lead from the public agency or nonprofit organization.
William T Grant foundation Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants
Award: $60,000 | Deadline: 9/15/2021
The Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants (YSCG) program supports activities to strengthen the organizational infrastructure of small nonprofit organizations in the five boroughs of New York City that provide direct services to young people ages 5 to 25.
Artadia Awards for Boston-based artists
Award: $10,000 – $25,000 | Deadline: 9/15/2022
Each year, an open-call application is made available in each of the seven active partner cities. Supporting artists equitably is a critical part of the Artadia Award process: we consider the unique populations of each community and are proud to reflect our country’s diversity with an Awardee pool that is over 50 percent female and over 40 percent persons of color. In addition to financial support, Awardees can participate in the Artadia Network to receive structured opportunities for valuable new connections and resource sharing as well as receive a dedicated webpage on Artadia’s online Artist Registry. Connections fostered by Artadia have facilitated major steps in Awardees’ careers, such as inclusion in prominent exhibitions (e.g. five Awardees were featured in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, and six in 2019).
Graham Foundation Research and Development Grants for Individuals
Award: up to $10,000 | Deadline: 9/15/22
These grants assist individuals with the production-related expenses that are necessary to take a project from conceptualization to realization and public presentation. These projects include, but are not limited to, publications, exhibitions, installations, films, and new media projects.
Graham Foundation Production and Presentation Grants for Individuals
Award: up to $20,000 | Deadline: 9/15/22
Research and Development Grants assist individuals with seed money for research-related expenses such as travel, documentation, materials, supplies, and other development costs. Projects must have clearly defined goals, work plans, and budgets.
RI Foundation Providence Journal Charitable Legacy Fund Grants
Award: undisclosed | Deadline: 9/19/22
The Providence Journal Charitable Legacy Fund was established at the Rhode Island Foundation in 2012 with the transfer of assets from the Providence Journal Charitable Foundation which had been awarding grants since 1956. The Fund supports qualified nonprofit organizations that provide programs and services in the following areas:
Human services and healthcare, with a focus on the homeless, Education and youth, Arts and culture, Responsible and ethical journalism, Please note that the primary geographic focus for funding is Rhode Island.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends
Award: up to $6000 | Deadline: 9/21/22
The purpose of this program is to stimulate new research and publication in the humanities. Summer Stipends support continuous, full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute Scholarly Fellowships
Award: $3,000 | Deadline: 9/23/22
The Gilder Lehrman Institute provides annual short-term research fellowships in the amount of $3000 each to doctoral candidates, college and university faculty at every rank, and independent scholars working in the field of American history. International scholars are eligible to apply. Since 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute has awarded a total of 683 fellowships.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute is proud to announce the launch of the John Winthrop Fellowship with a Focus on Colonial History. John Winthrop, a descendant of the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s first governor, John Winthrop, whose 1634 letter describing life in Boston is in the Gilder Lehrman Collection, is funding this fellowship with a focus on the colonial era. Scholars who are interested in applying for this fellowship should click on the How to Apply link for further instructions.
National Endowment for the Humanities Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Research
Award: up to $150,000 | Deadline: 9/28/22
The Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Research program makes awards to institutions and organizations conducting empirical field research to answer significant questions in the humanities. Archaeology and ethnography are important methodologies utilized by many disciplines across the humanities and social sciences that provide observational and experiential data on human history and culture. Archaeological methods may include field survey and field-based remote sensing, documentation or visualization, and/or excavations in support of answering research questions in all aspects of the human past, including but not limited to ancient studies, anthropology, art history, classical studies, regional studies, epigraphy, and other related disciplines. Ethnographic methods may include participant observation, surveys and interviews, and documentation or recording in pursuit of research questions in anthropology, sociology, ethnolinguistics, oral history, ethnomusicology, performance studies, folklore studies, and related disciplines.
Fundacion Jumex Jumex Grant Program
Award: up to $200,000 MEX | Deadline: 10/31/22
The Jumex Grant Program was created to support artists and organizations committed to the production, research and promotion of contemporary art. These grants are awarded annually through an open call.
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants
Award: up to $30,000 | Deadline: Rolling
The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. There are no deadlines. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The Foundation will review expenditures relating to an artist’s professional work and personal expenses and amounts range up to $30,000. The size of the grant is determined by the individual circumstances of the artist. Professional exhibition history will be taken into consideration. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues, such as gallery and museum spaces.
The Foundation does not accept applications from commercial artists, graphic artists, video artists, performance artists, filmmakers, crafts-makers, or any artist whose work primarily falls into these categories. The Foundation does not have an open photography grant program. The Foundation does not make grants to students or fund academic study. The Foundation does not make grants to pay for past debts, legal fees or personal travel.
Millay Arts Steepletop Residency
Award: none | Deadline: rolling
Founded in 1973 and located at “Steepletop,” the historic estate of poet/activist Edna St. Vincent Millay (one of the first women to win a Pulitzer Prize), Millay Arts is a nonprofit organization that offers multidisciplinary artists residencies on our campus as well as in the community. Located in the Hudson Valley, nestled against the Berkshire foothills of Austerlitz, New York, our sylvan seven acres border Vincent’s house and gardens (maintained by the Millay Society, a separate nonprofit) and the beautiful Harvey Mountain State Forest. Introduced in 2021, the Steepletop Residency provides the full “Millay experience” for those who wish to forego our blind jury process. Includes private bedrooms and studios (with bedding/linens), shared living spaces, laundry room, workstation, B&W darkroom and use of our Alumni and Nancy Graves Memorial libraries. Groceries are also provided along with communal dinners (prepared by our in-house chef).
Social Science Research Council The Mercury Project
Award: no maximum | Deadline: rolling
Evidence-based strategies to combat health mis- and disinformation and to increase the uptake of reliable health information are critical to an effective and equitable pandemic response. The Mercury Project invites letters of inquiry for research projects that address one or more of the following goals:
1) estimating the causal impacts of mis- and disinformation on online and offline outcomes in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, including health, economic, and/or social outcomes, differential impacts across socio-demographic groups, and quantifying the global costs of those impacts;
2) estimating the causal impacts of online or offline interventions in the United States, Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean to increase uptake of Covid-19 vaccines and other recommended public health measures by countering mis- and disinformation, including interventions that target the producers or the consumers of mis- and disinformation, or that increase confidence in reliable information.
Ford Foundation JustFilms
Award: up to budgeted request | Deadline: rolling
JustFilms accepts inquiries for grants year-round, averaging between 800 and 1,000 inquiries annually. We welcome submissions from any region of the world. Our funds are limited, and we are able to support only a small percentage of these projects through direct grants.We support artist-driven film and new media storytelling projects that explore aspects of inequality, as well as the organizations and networks that support these projects.
Open Society Foundations OSIEA grant
Award: up to budgeted request | Deadline: rolling
OSIEA’s philosophy is that communities are best placed to speak for themselves. Accordingly, the bulk of OSIEA’s funds are given in form of grants to empower communities to speak in their own voices. OSIEA is a flexible grant maker that uses a wide range of grant making approaches and modalities. OSIEA prioritizes grants to local national or regional organizations. In exceptional cases, OSIEA funds international organizations when they have a unique contribution to make to the Eastern Africa region or they are actively transferring knowledge or skills to in-country actors.
Open Society Foundations Latin American grant
Award: up to budgeted request | Deadline: rolling
The Latin America Program addresses rights and governance issues in Latin America and the Caribbean through grant making, network building, and collaboration with partners. We focus on supporting Latin American and Caribbean efforts to defend democracy and increase governmental transparency, protect minority rights, reduce homicides, and reform drug policy.
The Awesome Foundation The Awesome Foundation Grant
Award: $1,000 | Deadline: rolling
Each fully autonomous chapter supports awesome projects through micro-grants, usually given out monthly. These micro-grants, $1000 or the local equivalent, come out of pockets of the chapter’s “trustees” and are given on a no-strings-attached basis to people and groups working on awesome projects.
