The Artist Clinic at Country Doctor
www.artisttrust.org
For years the Country Doctor Community Clinic has offered affordable healthcare to artists in our region. Now, they have added an artist-focused night each week on Wednesdays from 5:30pm–8:30pm. Appointments can still be made at other times to accommodate varying schedules, and artists of all creative disciplines are encouraged to take advantage of this great resource. More information on the Artist Trust website above. Make an appointment today by calling 206 299.1600.
Potlatch Fund
Community Building Grants for Native Organizations and Peoples
Deadline: April 17, 2009
www.potlatchfund.org
Potlatch Fund’s Mission is to inspire and build upon the Native tradition of giving and to expand philanthropy in Northwest Indian Country. The name, Potlatch Fund, reflects a Northwest coastal tribal traditional ceremony and in the Chinook language potlatch means to give or a gift. Historically potlatches were occasions when individuals shared their good fortune through the distribution of gifts to members of their tribe as well as those of neighboring tribes. 2009 Community Building Grants will be awarded in amounts ranging from $500 to $5,000.
The Laird Norton Family Foundation
Education Grants
Deadline: April 20, 2009
www.lairdnorton.org/arts-in-education
Open call in Washington State for Letters of Interest (LOIs) for grants to improve K – 12 arts education in public school classrooms and in out-of-school time programs that partner with public schools.
Dance/USA
Engaging Dance Audiences
Call for Project Ideas
Deadline: May 4, 2009
www.danceusa.org/engagingdanceaudiences
With support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the James Irvine Foundation, Dance/USA has launched Engaging Dance Audiences (EDA), a $1.9 million pilot program that enables Dance/USA to analyze current dance-going activities, and its members to explore and research methods of engaging audiences for dance, learn from peers, and share the learning nationally.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Collections Care Grants Opportunity
Deadline: May 14, 2009 (for projects beginning in January 2010)
The NEH Preservation Assistance Grants help institutions—particularly small and mid-sized institutions—improve their ability to preserve and care for their humanities collections, including special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine arts, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, and historical objects. Institutions such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, arts and cultural organizations, and town and county records offices are encouraged to apply.
Inspiring Youth to become the preservationists of tomorrow!
Deadline: June 5, 2009
Museums, historic sites, historical societies, preservation organizations, libraries, and archives are invited to partner with a local school or youth group and apply for funding to help preserve the history of their communities. Each year, HISTORY awards $10,000 in grants to organizations that partner with schools or youth groups on community preservation projects that engage students in learning about, documenting, and preserving the history of their communities. For guidelines and criteria, important dates, and to apply, please visit www.saveourhistory.com, and click on grants.
