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The Artist in Business Leadership (ABL) Fellowship is a yearlong program that helps independent Native artists leverage art-making as a way to build or grow a business to support themselves and their families. Participants in this self-directed fellowship are offered grant funding for business needs, network-building opportunities, and professional development guidance. As part of the application process, artists submit a proposal of what, if selected, they would accomplish during their fellowship year that will help them launch, grow, and/or sustain their arts business. Artists accepted into the program receive a $10,000 grant to be used towards their proposed activities during their fellowship year. Applications are open to artists at all stages of their career, and all art mediums are eligible for this fellowship with the exception of live performing arts. The Native Performing Arts Fellowship program is the appropriate opportunity for artists who regularly perform live as part of their arts business or creative practice (this includes theater, music, dance, live performance, spoken word and more). | Deadline: July 16, 2025 8:00 PM | More information and application.

The Native Performing Arts (NPA) Fellowship is a year-long program that helps Native Artists create, practice and perform within the Performing Arts (theater, music, dance, live performance, etc.). The program provides them with network-building, professional development training and funding to work toward building a sustainable career within the Performing Arts landscape. | Deadline: July 16, 2025 8:00 PM | More information and application.

CERF+ offers $3,000 Emergency Relief Grants to craft artists who experienced a recent and substantially disruptive emergency or disaster. | Deadline: Rolling basis. | More information and application.

coLAB Arts' Monthly Artist Grant celebrates artists in New Jersey who use creative practice to support their local communities and create greater public good. Nominations are now being accepted for the month of July. | Application and information.

The 2026 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship rules and instructions and application are now available! State Fellowships – ranging, in the past, from $3,000 to $31,000 - are awarded to practicing New Jersey artists through an anonymous, competitive application process to help them pursue their artistic goals. The categories for this grant cycle are: Film/Video, Digital/Electronic, Interdisciplinary, Painting, Prose, Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts. | Deadline: July 16, 2025 by 5 PM EST. | More information and application.

The NHPRC seeks archival projects that will significantly improve online public discovery and use of historical records collections. We welcome projects that engage the public, expand civic education, and promote understanding of the nation’s history, democracy, and culture from the founding era to the present day. The Commission encourages projects focused on collections of America’s early legal records, such as the records of colonial, territorial, county, and early statehood and tribal proceedings that document the evolution of the nation’s legal history. | Deadline: November 5, 2025 | More information and application.

The NJ Film Works Grant Program is a competitive funding opportunity that will award grants to support workforce development, training, and skills programs that strengthen and diversify the state’s film and digital media talent pipeline with a particular focus on NJ’s Overburdened Communities. A total of $3 million is available for awards under this Grant Program. The minimum and maximum amounts for individual awards are set at $250,000 and $750,000, respectively. NJEDA anticipates making multiple awards for this grant program. | Deadline: July 11, 2025 | More information and application.

The Main Street Acquisition Support Grant product is a pilot product under the Main Street Recovery Fund that will offer a grant of up to $50,000 to reimburse an eligible NJ small business for closing costs related to a New Jersey commercial property that the business purchased to operate from. | Deadline: The grant application must be submitted within one year after the closing date of the property purchased. | More information and application.

In this four-part series we cover the steps to take to build a sustainable Corporate Solicitations Program (CSP): The first module focuses on corporate giving trends, and how to leverage those trends when asking for support. The second module is a step-by-step tutorial on how to build or enhance your CSP. The third module is all about how to identify the best businesses to approach for support, as well as how to build a custom recognition package. And the final module focuses on how to develop the request for support, be it through a formal written application, email, phone, or face-to-face meeting. | Pricing and information.

The Atlantic County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs (ACOCHA) is offering a Special Funding Initiative for the first time in FY 2025. Funding is available to non-profit organizations who are new/emerging organizations or organizations requiring a small amount of funding for history related projects/professional development. This funding has a simplified request process and short time-frame from request to award. | Deadline: Rolling basis while funding is available. | More information and application.