Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Accepting Letters of Inquiry for National Projects in Performing Arts
Grants of up to $200,000 will be awarded to nonprofits and consortia working to strengthen the fields of dance, jazz, and theater and improve conditions for performing artists...
Deadline: November 1, 2008 (Letters of Inquiry)
Posted: October 15, 2008

Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Offers Support for Study of Ethical and Religious Values
One-year awards of $24,000 will be given to Ph.D. candidates working to complete their dissertations in ethics or religious values in the humanities and social sciences....
Deadline: November 14, 2008
Posted: October 15, 2008

American Library Association-Allied Professional Association Announces Award for Efforts to Improve Salaries of Librarians
An award of $5,000 will be given to an individual or organization working to improve the salaries or status of library staff at the local, regional, or national level....
Deadline: December 12, 2008
Posted: October 10, 2008

ASCAP Foundation Invites Entries for Young Jazz Composer Awards
A shared award of $25,000 will be given to U.S. residents under the age of 30 who have composed a jazz piece....
Deadline: December 1, Annually
Posted: October 9, 2008

San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music Announces Musical Grant Program
Grants of up to $3,000 will be awarded to professional chamber music ensembles and individuals with chamber music projects for program, organizational, and career development needs....
Deadline: November 14, 2008
Posted: October 8, 2008

Applications Invited for Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Fund for Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Jewish Studies
Five fellowships of $16,000 each will be given to doctoral candidates who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States or Canada and are in the final stage of their dissertations in Jewish studies....
Deadline: December 12, 2008
Posted: October 5, 2008

Creative Work Fund Invites Letters of Inquiry From Collaborating Artists and Nonprofit Organizations
Grants of up to $40,000 will be awarded to projects in which California-based artists and nonprofits collaborate to create new works featuring traditional art and media such as film, video, sound, and comptuter....
Deadline: December 3, 2008 (Letters of Inquiry)
Posted: October 3, 2008

NAMM Foundation Offers Funding for Music Making and Research
Support will be provided to community music-making programs, scientific researchers investigating the effects of making music, and music programs for seniors and school-aged children....
Deadline: Various
Posted: October 3, 2008

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Releases Guidelines for Artists & Communities Program
Grants of up to $20,000 will be awarded to artists and their hosts who have collaborated on artist residencies that engage the public in the creative process; this year, artists from any of the foundation's nine partner states are eligible....
Deadline: December 1, 2008
Posted: September 24, 2008

National Endowment for the Arts Announces Guidelines for American Masterpieces: Dance
Matching grants of up to $150,000 will be awarded to dance companies, presenters, festivals, and college and university dance programs performing reconstructions and re-stagings of significant works....
Deadline: October 24, 2008
Posted: September 24, 2008

New York City African-American and Latino Composers Invited to Apply for Van Lier Fellowships
The one-year fellowship will provide $8,500 to two composers, improvisers, singer/songwriters, sound artists who are in the early stage of their careers, are African-American or Latino, and are working in New York City....
Deadline: December 8, 2008
Posted: September 24, 2008

Nominations Invited for Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award
Ten public, school, college, community college, and university librarians will be recognized for their service with an award of $5,000 plus a travel stipend to attend an awards reception in New York City....
Deadline: Various
Posted: September 19, 2008

Entries Invited for Arts Presenters/MetLife Foundation Awards for Art Access
Awards of $10,000 will be given to organizations working to improve programming and infrastructure to make the arts more accessible to disabled and underserved communities....
Deadline: October 17, 2008
Posted: September 17, 2008

Harry Ransom Center Seeks Applications for Research Fellowships in the Humanities
Fellowships of up to four months will provide travel costs and stipends of $3,000 per month to post-doctorate scholars conducting research projects in all areas of the humanities, particularly if it concentrates on the center's collections....
Deadline: February 2, 2009
Posted: September 16, 2008

Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation Seeks Entries for Visual Arts Contest
Cash awards of $5,000 and the opportunity to have their work exhibited and offered for sale at Madison Avenue's Hollis Taggert Galleries will be given to oil, acrylic, and mixed media artists....
Deadline: December 1, 2008
Posted: September 7, 2008

New York Foundation for the Arts Announces Professional Development Program for Individual Artists
The new MARK program will assist New York City artists in developing strategies to expand their visibility through digital means, written and verbal communications, and other marketing opportunities....
Deadline: November 14, 2008
Posted: September 5, 2008

Bush Foundation Announces Categories and Informational Meetings for Artist Fellowship Program
Grants of up to $48,000 each, plus an additional $2,000 for implementing an individual communications strategy, will be awarded to literary, music, and other performing artists residing in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota....
Deadline: Various
Posted: September 3, 2008

MetLife Foundation Announces Museum and Community Connections Program
Grants of up to $100,000 will be awarded to art museums located in specific states across the country that are working to promote understanding of our world and different cultures....
Deadline: October 17, 2008
Posted: August 29, 2008

New York Foundation for the Arts Accepting Applications for Artists' Fellowships
Fellowships of $7,000 will be awarded to New York artists working in the disciplines of poetry, printmaking/drawing/book arts, nonfiction literature, sculpture, crafts, digital/electronic arts, and film.....
Deadline: Various
Posted: August 25, 2008

Community Leaders Invited to Apply for Preserve America Community Designation
Grants of up to $150,000 will be awarded to counties with an elected governing official, unincorporated communities, cities of 200,000 or more residents, and tribal communities working to preserve cultural and natural American heritage....
Deadline: Quarterly
Posted: August 24, 2008

National Endowment for Humanities Announces Second Picturing America Application Period
K-12 public, private, parochial, and charter schools, as well as home school consortia and public libraries, can receive forty pieces of great American art and an illustrated teachers' resource book to help teach American history and culture....
Deadline: October 31, 2008
Posted: August 22, 2008

Surdna Arts Teachers Fellowship Program Invites Applications From Public Arts High School Teachers
Grants of up to $5,500 will be awarded to experienced public arts high school faculty pursuing artistic revitalization, with an additional $1,500 awarded to their schools....
Deadline: November 14, 2008 (Letter of Intent to Apply)
Posted: August 13, 2008

Open Society Institute Invites Proposals for Moving Walls Documentary Photography Exhibition
Photographers whose documentary work on social justice and human rights issues is exhibited will receive a royalty of $1,500....
Deadline: December 5, 2008
Posted: August 13, 2008

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation Accepting Applications for Institutional Grants Program
Program grants of up to $15,000 will be awarded to nonprofits, schools, and colleges working to increase appreciation of and excellence in the motion picture art form....
Deadline: January 15, 2009
Posted: August 13, 2008

American Council of Learned Societies Offers Inaugural Round of Collaborative Research Awards
Grants of up to $140,000 will be awarded to teams of two or more scholars in the U.S. and abroad that are collaborating on projects in the humanities and related social sciences....
Deadline: November 12, 2008
Posted: August 11, 2008

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards to Honor Works Addressing Racism and Diversity
Two awards of $10,000 each will be given for a work of fiction or poetry and for a work of nonfiction, biography, or scholarly research written in English and published in the preceding calendar year....
Deadline: December 31, 2008
Posted: July 24, 2008

National Endowment for the Humanities Offers Emergency Flood Assistance Grants
Grants of up to $20,000 will be awarded to affected libraries, museums, colleges, universities, and other cultural and historical institutions in the Midwest for salvage and protection of significant collections of cultural heritage....
Deadline: Open
Posted: July 21, 2008

National String Project Consortium Seeks Applications for New Teacher Training Program Sites
Five-year matching grants will be given to colleges and universities across the United States working to train instructors who teach children to play stringed instruments....
Deadline: November 17, 2008
Posted: July 6, 2008

Guitar Center Music Foundation Offers Support for Music Instruction
Grants of up to $5,000 will be awarded to nonprofit music programs in the United States providing music instruction to people of any age in underserved communities....
Deadline: Open
Posted: June 16, 2008

Active Living Research and Healthy Eating Research Program Announces Rapid Response Grants Program
In 2008, grants totaling up to $800,000 will be awarded to public entities or nonprofit organizations conducting research on changes in policies or environments with the greatest potential to reach children who are at highest risk for obesity....
Deadline: Rolling (Letters of Intent)
Posted: June 3, 2008

A Room Of Her Own Foundation Invites Applications for Literary Gift of Freedom Award
An award of $50,000 will be given to a woman playwright, poet, or writer of fiction or creative nonfiction who is a U.S. citizen residing in the United States....
Deadline: October 31, 2008
Posted: March 17, 2008

Mid-America Arts Alliance Announces Latino Culture Project
Grants of up to $3,000 will be awarded to nonprofit organizations in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas working to educate audiences about Latino culture through artistic performance....
Deadline: May 2, 2009 (Open)
Posted: March 11, 2008

Nominations of New York City Arts Organizations Invited for Union Square Arts Award
Grants of up to $30,000 will be awarded to arts organizations making a significant contribution to the lives of low-income youth, families, and their communities in New York City.....
Deadline: Nominations are reviewed in the order received.
Posted: February 5, 2008

Princess Grace Foundation-USA Announces Availability of Applications for 2008 Awards in Theater, Playwriting, Dance, Choreography, and Film
Grants will be awarded to individual artists across the United States; theater and dance awards will be in the form of scholarships, apprencticeships, and fellowships, while film awards are scholarships by invitation only....
Deadline: Various
Posted: January 28, 2008

MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Invites Applications from Chicago-Area Organizations
Operating grants of up to $15,000 will be awarded to arts and culture organizations that have budgets of $500,000 or less and reside in and serve the Chicago metropolitan area....
Deadline: Various
Posted: January 15, 2008

National Geographic All Roads Film Project Offers Seed Grants for Indigenous Filmmakers
The All Roads Film Project will award grants of up to $10,000 to film projects by and about indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture filmmakers from all reaches of the globe....
Deadline: Quarterly
Posted: January 8, 2008

NAMM Foundation Announces New Grant Initiatives for Music Makers and Researchers
Support will be provided to individuals and organizations for efforts that support the foundation's mission of advancing active participation in music making....
Deadline: Various
Posted: November 12, 2007

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Arts Program Announces National Projects Fund
Grants of up to $200,000 will be awarded to individual nonprofits and consortia working to strengthen the health of dance, jazz, presenting, or the theater arts....
Deadline: Open
Posted: August 29, 2007

American Councils for International Education Offers Support for Policy Relevant Research
Fellowships of $25,000 will be awarded to U.S. graduate students, faculty, and post-doctoral scholars conducting foreign policy-relevant research in Belarus, Central Asia, Russia, the South Caucasus, Ukraine, or Moldova....
Deadline: Rolling
Posted: August 23, 2007

District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities Offers Folk & Traditional Arts Mini-Grant Program
Grants of up to $1,000 will be awarded to artists and arts organizations providing folk and traditional arts projects in close consultation and collaboration with their communities....
Deadline: Rolling
Posted: August 22, 2007

Folger Shakespeare Library Offers Short- and Long-Term Fellowships
Fellowships carrying a stipend of up to $75,000 will be awarded to scholars from the U.S. and abroad to conduct research of the early modern period using the library's collection....
Deadline: Various
Posted: July 10, 2007

Surdna Foundation Arts Program Announces Request for Proposals for Creative Writing Residencies for Teens
Established artists' communities that serve creative writers will be awarded funding to develop summer retreats lasting at least two weeks for teens...
Deadline: Open
Posted: June 24, 2007

Meet The Composer Accepting Applications for Creative Connections
Grants of up to $5,000 will be awarded to U.S. composers working in any genre of music or sound art for public performance or discussion of their original work....
Deadline: Quarterly
Posted: February 28, 2007

Theatre Communications Group Announces Deadlines for Career Development Programs for Theater Directors and Designers
Professional development grants of $22,500 each will be awarded to fourteen talented stage directors and designers wishing to pursue a career in American not-for-profit professional theater....
Deadline: Various
Posted: November 21, 2006

Bush Foundation Announces Artist Fellows Program
Fifteen artists working in literature, music composition, scriptworks, or film/video that reflects diverse communities in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, or northwestern Wisconsin will receive $48,000 for a fellowship of up to two years....
Deadline: Various
Posted: August 26, 2006

Surdna Foundation Announces Request for Proposals for Creative Writing Residencies for Teens
Proposals are sought from artists' colonies for a summer creative writing retreat serving at least 20 teenagers per year; organizations working in genres outside of creative writing, such as science writing or journalism, are not eligible....
Deadline: Rolling
Posted: May 12, 2006

Green Foundation Seeks Grant Proposals
Tax exempt, public charity organizations are eligible to apply for funding in the arts, education, and health and scientific research....
Deadline: Open
Posted: September 23, 2005

Blakemore Foundation Invites Applications for Asian Art and Language Grants
Grants are available to encourage the advanced study of Asian languages and to improve the understanding of Asian fine arts in the United States....
Deadline: Various: November 1, 2005, and May 15, 2006: December 30, 2005
Posted: August 5, 2005

Leeway Foundation Offers New Grant Programs for Women and Transgendered Artists in the Philadelphia Region
The Leeway Foundation has announced the Leeway Transformation Award and the Art and ChangeGrant, two new funding programs designed to celebrate the power and vision of women artists creating change in the Philadelphia area....
Deadline: Various
Posted: March 2, 2005

Luce Fund in American Art Offers Support for Scholarly Exhibitions and Publications
Each proposed project must result in a tangible product that can be added to the body of scholarship in the field of American art....
Deadline: March 1, annually (Letter of Inquiry)
Posted: October 6, 2003

Sundance Fund to Support International Documentary Projects
The Sundance Documentary Fund is dedicated to supporting international documentary films and videos focused on current and significant issues and movements in contemporary human rights, freedom of expression, social justice, and civil liberties....
Deadline: Rolling
Posted: November 18, 2002