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Grants

In December 2021, the Poetry Foundation announced a new grantmaking strategy to provide support to the fields of poetry and literary arts.

The Poetry Foundation has committed $9 million over three years, beginning in 2022. Grants will support US-based nonprofit organizations through the following priorities:

• Continuing relief funding in 2022 to nonprofit poetry and literary arts organizations impacted by the pandemic;
• Investing in building and strengthening the capacity of BIPOC leadership at nonprofit poetry, literary arts, and publishing organizations, and programs;
• Cultivating and engaging new, diverse audiences for poetry;
• Fostering new collaborations and partnerships, as well as innovation and new technologies in the field.

The Poetry Foundation is a private foundation; its mission is to amplify poetry and celebrate poets by fostering spaces for all to create, experience, and share poetry. The Foundation strives to achieve this through an array of programs and publications designed to develop new audiences, create innovative avenues for delivery, and recognize and support all forms of poetry.

These goals are grounded in the Foundation’s values and commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. The Foundation’s grantmaking initiative actively seeks to build equitable practices and share its resources ethically within the poetry ecosystem to achieve this aim.

The Frankenthaler Climate Initiative, launched by Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in partnership with RMI and Environment and Culture Partners, is a national grantmaking program that addresses climate change through cultural institutions.

The J.M.K. Innovation Prize seeks to identify, support, and elevate innovators who are spearheading transformative early-stage projects in the fields of the environment, heritage conservation, and social justice.

In 2023, we will award up to ten Prizes, each including a cash award of $150,000 over three years, plus $25,000 in technical assistance funds, for a total award of $175,000. Awardees also receive guidance through the Fund and its resource network, providing tools and training to support them through the challenges of a startup organization.

The Capital Arts – Historic Locations Grant Program supports capital projects for nonprofit arts organizations located in New Jersey. In FY23, the program will be presented in partnership with the New Jersey Historic Trust and will include the distribution of approximately $2.7 million in State Arts Council grant funds. The grant program is designed to help New Jersey’s nonprofit arts organizations operating locations with historic designation(s) or certified eligible for historic designation, build operational stability and capacity and improve or enhance a historic facility through: • construction • repair or expansion of existing facilities • acquisition/installation of building service equipment (plumbing, mechanical, and/or electrical equipment, et. al.)

Consejo Estatal de las Artes de Nueva Jersey Capital Arts - Lugares históricos Directrices del Programa de Subvenciones para el Año Fiscal 23

Technical assistance available through March. Contact Diane Felcyn (diane.felcyn@sos.nj.gov or 609-633-1244) with questions about arts-related eligibility, or the New Jersey Historic Trust (609-984-0473) for historic and project based questions | Register for one of the several sessions here: February 24, 2023, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Register Here, March 3, 2023, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Register Here, March 10, 2023, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Register Here, March 17, 2023 , 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Register Here, March 24, 2023, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Register Here

Special Initiative Grants are intended to support new projects or unanticipated needs for current Council

grantees that are not part of the organization’s regular, planned, or ongoing work.

For this grant round, eligible projects are offered in two categories:

1. projects in response to issues or opportunities not accounted for at the time of FY23 contract

filing; and,

1. project-related internships for an emerging arts administrator, hosted by the applicant

organization.

The New Jersey Cultural Trust Capital Historic Preservation Grants Program is collaboratively administered by the New Jersey Historic Trust for and with the New Jersey Cultural Trust. The Cultural Trust Act (2000) created a Trust Fund, from which grants may be awarded to support capital projects, endowments and institutional and financial stabilization of qualified organizations. The Act directs the New Jersey Historic Trust to design and administer programs that recommend capital projects to the Cultural Trust. All history, arts and humanities organizations with stewardship responsibility for historic resources that are listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places, and qualified by the New Jersey Cultural Trust, are eligible to apply for 2023 (FY24) capital historic preservation funding. The New Jersey Cultural Trust was established by law in July 2000 to develop a permanent source of funding for arts, history and humanities organizations. The New Jersey Historic Trust was established by statute in 1967 as a nonprofit historic preservation organization created to preserve and protect New Jersey’s historic resources. Through its programs and activities, the Historic Trust assists, supports, and safeguards historic structures throughout the State. To be eligible for funds, an organization must be a New Jersey-based, nonprofit organization that has been qualified by the Cultural Trust by March 15, 2023. In order to become qualified by this date, qualification applications must be postmarked no later than February 17, 2023 and submitted to the Cultural Trust. Call the NJ Historic Trust at (609) 984-0473 with questions regarding eligibility, the application process, and one-on-one applicant consultations. Information is also posted on the Historic Trust website http://njht.org/dca/njht/programs/ct/.

The NJHC’s General Operating Support (GOS) program was established in 2000 to provide critical support to organizations engaged in preserving, researching, and interpreting New Jersey history. Its primary goal is to encourage excellence and innovation.

Project grants must deliver high-quality, engaging New Jersey history to a diverse audience. The applicant must demonstrate that it practices professional standards specific to its discipline. Project grants are available to both individuals and organizations. Project Grants at a Glance  Applicants can request up to $20,000 in support of their project.  Applicants are only allowed to submit one application per Project grant round.  Individuals and organizations are restricted to one open Project grant at a time.  Organizational applicants are allowed to be recipients of both the GOS grant program and the Project grant program.

Grantmakers in the Arts has partnered with Race Forward and True North EDI to develop the Racial Equity in Arts Funding Workshop, which we premiered at the 2017 GIA Annual Conference. GIA has been hosting the workshop for grantmakers since 2017 to overwhelmingly positive feedback. GIA continues to offer racial equity workshops to support funders with nuts-and-bolts guidance on how to better serve African, Latine, Asian, Arab, Native American communities through their grantmaking. This workshop for grantmakers will include information on the history of racialization in the United States, the history of cultural funding, and real-world examples of racial equity funding, strategies, and resources you may bring with you back to your organizations.

We have adapted our workshops from the in-person format to offer them safely to you online. The new four-part structure will create more opportunities for reflection and dialogue without sacrificing the rich content we have prepared.

The workshop will be 12 hours and divided into 4 three-hour modules.

About 300 artists in seven disciplines are awarded Fellowships each year and the sole criterion for acceptance is artistic excellence. There are no residency fees. Need-based travel grants and stipends are available to open the residency experience to the broadest possible community of artists. Artists with professional standing in their fields, as well as emerging artists, are eligible to apply. MacDowell encourages artists from all backgrounds and all countries in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theatre, and visual arts. Any applicant whose proposed project does not fall clearly within one of these artistic disciplines should contact the admissions department for guidance. We aim to be inclusive, not exclusive in our admissions process.

Find out about our Art of Journalism Initiative here. Journalists who are interested in applying for this initiative should submit an application to our literature nonfiction category.

For questions, please contact admissions@macdowell.org.

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