Arts, Culture & Humanities

Mission/Giving Statement: To serve, advance, and lead the network of organizations and individuals who culitivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Community Revitalization

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions: 

Community Revitalization:  To fund and recognize the impact of artists and the arts in communities’ revitalization efforts. Creativity and innovation of  the revitalizaton project, must show evidence that the community has made artists and the arts central to their community revitalization strategies. Projects must show evidence that there was contributions to community revitalization and economic development.

Application Instructions: Grant application instructions online. Required supplementary material with application- a one-page letter of support from an elected official. (Mayor, etc.) and  one to three images relating to the project in jpg or png format.

Funding Restrictions: Applicants must be Americans for the Arts Organizational Members.

Mission/Giving Statement: Dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures, the Academy's corporate management and general policies are overseen by a Board of Governors, which includes representatives from each of the craft bunches.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Education; Film Festival; Internship

Grantmaking Program Areas Descriptions: 

Education: Provides support to institutions and other nonprofit organizations that help aspiring filmmakers gain the skills and knowledge they need to make theatrical motion pictures.

Film Festival: Grants are awarded for a variety of programs, film festivals are encouraged to submit proposals that make festival events more accessible to the general public, provide greater access to minority and less visible filmmakers, and help strengthen the connection between the filmmaker and the public.

Internship: Assists in fostering educational opportunities for students at accredited educational institutions and other nonprofit organizations who might not otherwise be able to participate in a motion picture production-focused internship due to financial limitations.

Application Instructions: Grant application instructions online. 

Mission/Giving Statement: We seek to strengthen communities in the places we operate around the world by providing technology, talent, and funding to support cutting-edge programming and innovation.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Education; Health & Wellness; Community; Arts & Culture

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions: 

Education: We support non-profit educational programs that create access to 21st centruy technoogy and help students learn the accompanying skills they need to succeed.

Health & Wellness: We work with organizations focused on improving health and wellness in their local communities.

Community: We support communities around the world by providing tools and funding to help mitigate serious social issues.

Arts & Culture: We work with organizations that use technology to change for the better the way individuals work and live.

Type of Funding/ Funding Restrictions: Must serve communities in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Florida. Oregon. Georgia. Texas or Pennsylvania; howvever can be an online or national program. Must be a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) non-profit orginzation or an NCES school or school district.

Application Instructions: Application available online.

Mission/Giving Statement: Kindle Project seeks to foster a nexus of creative ideas and cultivators to inspire and support possibilities for change.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Funding and other support specifically to people and organizations approaching their work in creative, innovative ways toward one or more of the following goals: 

• Transforming conflict
• Inspiring ingenuity
• Challenging outmoded systems and frameworks
• Fostering generostiy among people
• Educating outside of mainstream paradigms

Together with our collaborators, we hope to build a nexus for social, political and global transformation.

Funding Restrictions: Due to limited staff capacity, we are unable to respond to unsolicited grant requests. Grants are solicited and awarded by invitation only.

Application Instructions: The application process is structured with our grantee partners on a case-by-case basis.

Mission/Giving Statement: The purposes of the J. E. and L. E. Mabee Foundation are to aid Chrisitan religious organizations, charitable organizations, institutions of higher learning, hospitals and other organizations of a general charitable nature.

Types of Funding/Funding Restrictions: The Foundation does not fund educational institutions below the college level or churches. List of additional restrictions online.

Application Instructions: See website for full details.

Notes: Grants only made to AK, KS, MO, NM, OK, and TX.

Application Instructions: 

Mail Request to:

Award Committee

401 West Taylor

Hobbs, NM 88240

Materials to include: Nominations from principals in the Hobbs Municipal School District

Deadline: End of school year in question.

Restrictions or limitations: Individual recipients must be full-time teachers in the Hobb community. Non-profit organization recipients must be qualified for an exemption for federal income tax purposes under section 501 (c) (3) and meeting the foundation's general purposes.

Application Instructions:

Mail all inquiries to Shirley Ann Prince, 417 South  7th Street, Raton, New Mexico, 87740

Mission/Giving Statement: Small grants are given to promote small businesses and education with an emphasis on crafts and arts primarily within the state of New Mexico.

Application Instructions: 

1. Date
2. Organization/Individual's name, address, telephone, fax, email, and website address, and name of person who is head of organization.
3. Federal ID number and IRS Determination Letter (as evidence of tax exempt status) for the organization or Social Security Number.
4. If no tax-exempt status, state name, address, telephone, fax, email and website addresses, and Federal ID number of your fiscal agent.
5. Project Manager's name, title, and address (if different from above).
6. State the purpose of your request (example: operating funds, project, program, etc).
7. Grant amount requested.
8.  Total project cost and budget if different than organization's budget.
9. Start and end date of the project or grant period request.
10.  Annual organization or projected budget.
11. State who will be served.
12. State geographic area that will be served.
13. Provide a 50 word or less summary of funding request.
14. Provide a 50 word or less summary of your evaluation process, and what results you expect.

Also provide organization Information: Describe the history / mission / purpose of your organization including its major accomplishments; Provide a list of your board of directors or trustees, and a description of their relevant background and experience; Provide a list of all other sources of organization support; Enclose recent press coverage if any; Enclose three copies of the organization’s most recent audit OR your most recent reviewed or compiled financial statements AND three copies of your most recent Form 990, or that of your fiscal agent.

1. Provide a description of the project, including goals and objectives.
2. What determined the need?
3. Was your constituency involved in the planning process? How? 
4. Will it help woman become more financially self-sufficient? If so, how? 
5. What are the anticipated outcomes?
6. How will you evaluate and measure its effectiveness? 
7. What are your plans for continuation past stated grant date, including funding? 
8. Include or enclose information about principal staff and/ or volunteers who will implement the program or project.

Application Instructions:  Submit a request for interview by email or US mail. Projects should generally be related to the arts.