Opportunity Grant (Cycle 4): The Opportunity Grant Program is funded by the City of Portland and is designed to provide grants to Portland-based nonprofit arts and cultural organizations...
Funding
Local and national funding opportunities for artists and arts and culture organizations, including RACC grant listings. To find out more about listed items, please use the contact information for that notice. Do not contact RACC, unless it is a RACC opportunity. To submit a notice for this page, email the listing to mbauer@racc.org.
1/23/12
1/23/12
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Arts Recognition grants are $1,000 awards made to exemplary arts organizations that have a record of excellence in programming, service, and organizational capacity, but have not...
Deadline: 2/9/12
1/20/12
1/20/12
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Sundance Institute is looking for works that exchange diverse ideas and help to maintain and create an open society and public dialogue on current issues. Applications will be accepted in two...
Deadline: 2/9/12
9/15/11
9/15/11
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Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation have announced a new public-private partnership in support of Southern Exposure:...
Deadline: 2/10/12
1/5/12
1/5/12
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Through a literary prize, High Desert Journal aims to explore the realm described by poet Jarold Ramsey: "I believe in an ecology of story, memory and imagination as much as an ecology of...
Deadline: 2/12/12
1/23/12
1/23/12
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Career Opportunity Grants support individual Oregon artists by enabling them to take advantage of unique opportunities to enhance their careers through the development of arts, business or...
Deadline: 2/14/12
2/1/12
2/1/12
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The Vermont Studio Center holds three annual fellowship deadlines, with new juries and different awards each time. In 2011, VSC awarded 179 fellowships to artists and writers from the U.S. and 25...
Deadline: 2/15/12
1/5/12
1/5/12
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SE Uplift and the Office of Neighborhood Involvement provide$7,400 in grant funds through the Graffiti Abatement Community Grants Program. Neighborhood, business and community-based organizations...
Deadline: 2/24/12
1/24/12
1/24/12
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The Oregon Folklife Network seeks traditional artists to apply for grants available through our Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP). TAAP facilitates the passing down of...
Postmarked Deadline: 2/29/12
1/11/12
1/11/12
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The Tribal Cultural Trust Board is beginning its 2012 grant-making round. Grants ranging from $250 to a maximum of $1,000 are available for Grand Ronde Tribal members only to use for...
Deadline: 2/29/12
1/20/12
1/20/12
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Creative Capital provides integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing innovative and adventurous projects. Acting as a catalyst for the development of exceptional and...
Intent to Apply Deadline: 3/1/12
1/20/12
1/20/12
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Creative Capital provides integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing innovative and adventurous projects. Acting as a catalyst for the development of exceptional and...
Intent to Apply Deadline: 3/1/12
1/3/12
1/3/12
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The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to announce two postdoctoral fellowships, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, for outstanding scholars who have recently earned PhDs and wish to...
Deadline: 3/1/12
12/9/11
12/9/11
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The U.S/Japan Creative Artists' Program provides support for up to five outstanding contemporary or traditional artists from the United States to spend a three-month residency in Japan. Eligible...
Deadline: 3/1/12
12/2/11
12/2/11
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Art works to improve the lives of America's citizens in many ways. Communities across our nation are engaging design and leveraging the arts to create livable, sustainable neighborhoods with...
Deadline: 3/1/12
11/16/11
11/16/11
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The NEA Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable the recipients to set aside time for...
Deadline: 3/1/12
2/1/12
2/1/12
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General Operating Support Grants provides general financial support to arts organizations in Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas Counties, based on their artistic excellence, proven service to...
Intent to Apply Deadline: 3/7/12
1/5/12
1/5/12
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To support the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and the strengthening of communities...
Deadline: 3/8/12
2/1/12
2/1/12
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The Ford Family Foundation offers funding in multiple categories in this program, two of which have merged into a new single application process beginning in 2012. They invite you to submit...
Deadline: 3/15/12
1/3/12
1/27/12
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Call for Applications. Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts offers creative residencies for visual and performing artists, writers, musicians and composers of all levels, backgrounds, media and...
Deadline: 3/15/12
1/19/12
1/19/12
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Portland Open Studios is a juried studio tour of 100 artists in the Portland metro area. Educate, and expand your audience by demonstrating your creative methods, materials, inspiration and...
Deadline for both Call to Artist & Scholarship: 3/15/12
2/1/12
2/1/12
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The Ford Family Foundation annually awards three unrestricted $25,000 fellowships to Oregon mid-career visual artists who are on the cusp of attaining a new level in their work, based on the...
Deadline: 3/20/12
11/9/11
11/9/11
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High school seniors and college freshman and sophomores can enter. There are four scholarships. Financial amounts to be determined will be in the range of $100-$250.
To apply
Please...
Deadline: 3/27/12
2/2/12
2/2/12
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The Oregon Arts Commission and The Ford Family Foundation is in the second year of a partnership to provide funding for the acquisition of seminal works by Oregon visual artists.
Part of...
Deadline: 3/30/12
1/18/12
1/18/12
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The Hillsboro Arts & Culture Council is now accepting applications for 2012-2013 Community Arts & Culture Grants. With dozens of nonprofits devoted to bringing arts and culture to...
Deadline: 3/30/12
1/27/12
1/27/12
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The Ford Family Foundation’s Art Acquisition Program, managed by the Oregon Arts Commission, provides resources to Oregon visual art institutions and public visual arts collections for the...
Deadline: 4/1/12
2/1/12
2/1/12
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Professional Development Grants (cycle 1) assists artists or representatives of arts organizations with opportunities that specifically improve their business management skills and/or help advance...
Intent to Apply Deadline: 4/11/12
1/27/12
1/27/12
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Arts Learning Grants support meaningful activities that reach K-12 students and teachers through partnerships between artists and arts organizations, and the schools and/or community. One-time...
Deadline: 5/1/12
1/27/12
1/27/12
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Operating Support grants support the operations of and public access to the programs of Oregon's medium and large not-for-profit arts organizations. The Oregon Arts Commission encourages...
Deadline: 5/2/12
1/27/12
1/27/12
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Arts Services grants provide operating support primarily to local and regional art councils, or other arts organizations that offer regular, ongoing arts services to a broad audience. Services can...
Deadline: 5/2/12
1/5/12
1/5/12
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The Challenge America Fast-Track category offers support primarily to small and mid-sized organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations -- those whose...
Deadline: 5/24/12
11/9/11
11/9/11
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Enter the C. Whitcomb Conference Scholarship Contest by nominating your best writing student(s). If your student wins, so do you. You'll both be awarded a day at the Willamette Writers Conference...
Postmarked Deadline: 6/1/12
1/12/12
1/13/12
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A number of RACC grants are available for individual artists and nonprofit organizations in 2012. To help you with your planning, check out our schedule below. Please note that all dates are...
Final Intent to Apply Deadline in August: 8/1/12
10/31/11
2/1/12
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CERF+ emergency relief assistance includes grants, no-interest loans, access to resources, waivers and discounts on booth fees, and donations of craft supplies and equipment. See website for...
No Deadline
8/24/11
8/24/11
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The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP) is pleased to announce a new initiative stemming from the Japan-U.S. Summit Meeting in November 2010. This new initiative intends to...
Rolling Deadline
8/24/11
8/24/11
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To join USA Projects free as an artist member, you must be over 18 years old and reside in the United States. In addition, you must have received an award as an individual artist from one of our...
No Deadline
3/18/11
3/18/11
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The Ford Foundation will grant approximately $16 million through JustFilms, an open-application process for filmmakers and mediamakers around the world who are working to create documentaries that...
Ongoing Deadline
1/14/11
2/25/11
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Access Reimbursement Grants from the Oregon Arts Commission will help offset the expenditures of specific access expenses incurred by Oregon’s nonprofit arts organizations, to ensure...
8/9/10
8/9/10
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Who they fund:
Grants are available to American dance, music and theater ensembles and solo performers that have been invited to perform at international festivals and...
6/2/10
6/4/10
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Kickstarter.com, an online funding platform, supports art, music, design (fashion, product, game, app, etc), film/video, food, journalism, and other projects that spring from the imagination...
No Deadline
11/13/09
11/13/09
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Google Grants is a unique in-kind donation program awarding free AdWords advertising to select charitable organizations. We support organizations sharing our philosophy of community service to...
No Deadline
10/9/09
10/27/09
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Barnes & Noble, a national bookstore chain, provides in-store fundraising opportunities, sponsorships, and donations to local and regional nonprofit organizations that focus on literacy, the...
No Deadline
10/9/09
10/9/09
Music
These grants help bring new, exceptionally fine stringed instruments and mentoring with world-renowned musicians to children while strengthening local community support for music education....
9/22/09
9/22/09
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These grants provide expedited consideration of true emergencies. MMT’s emergency fund is intended for sudden, unanticipated and unavoidable challenges that, if not addressed immediately,...
No Deadline