MetLife Foundation Innovative Space Awards (last chance!)
Deadline: April 23, 2010
The MetLife Foundation Innovative Space Awards (ISA) program recognizes, rewards, and promotes successful artist space development projects that exhibit innovation, affordability for artists, sustainability, and community impact.The program emphasizes the role affordable artist space projects play in community revitalization and socially progressive community development, and will increase awareness of replicable, sustainable approaches and models. In 2009 awards ranging from $10,000 to $50,000 to provided support for six winning projects. The ISAs currently have an open call for entries to apply for the second and final cycle of awards.
National Endowment for the Arts: Challenge America Fast-Track
Deadline: May 27, 2010
The Challenge America Fast-Track category offers support primarily to small and midsized organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations—those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability. This category, as an essential component of the National Endowment for the Art”s goal of providing wide access to artistic excellence, supports local projects that can have significant effects within communities. Grants are available for professional arts programming and for projects that emphasize the potential of the arts in community development.
Ford Foundation Space for Change Planning and Pre-Development Grants
Deadline: May 28, 2010
LINC, in partnership with the Ford Foundation, announces an open call for proposals to the Ford Foundation Space for Change Planning and Pre-Development Grant program. Non-profit arts organizations with strong track records of artistic excellence, who are intending to buy, build, renovate, partner in the development of, or become anchor tenants in a vibrant artist space can apply for up to $100,000 in support of a facility project.
National Endowment for the Arts: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
Deadline: June 10, 2010
The National Endowment for the Arts’ Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth category offers funding for projects that help children and youth acquire knowledge and understanding of and skills in the arts. Projects must provide participatory learning and engage students with skilled artists, teachers, and excellent art. All proposed projects must provide the chance for students to experience exemplary works of art (e.g., live performances); to study works of art in order to understand their cultural and social contexts and to appreciate their technical and/or aesthetic qualities; and to create artwork. Projects must also provide for the assessment of students according to national or state arts education standards.
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