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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-81824349857617684612012-08-20T18:03:00.000-07:002012-08-20T18:03:05.230-07:00MAP Fund for Contemporary Performances<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px;">Funded by the </span><a href="http://www.ddcf.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #3e647e; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Doris Duke Charitable Foundation</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px;"> and the </span><a href="http://www.mellon.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #3e647e; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Andrew W. Mellon Foundation</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px;"> and administered by </span><a href="http://www.creative-capital.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #3e647e; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Creative Capital</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px;">, the MAP Fund supports artists, ensembles, producers, and presenters whose work in the disciplines of contemporary performance embodies a spirit of exploration and deep inquiry. MAP is particularly interested in supporting work that examines notions of cultural difference or "the other," be that in class, gender, generation, race, religion, sexual orientation, or other aspects of diversity.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px;">Amount: $10,000 - $45,000</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px;">Due: October 17, 2012</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px;">For more information, </span></span><br />
<a href="http://mapfund.org/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://mapfund.org/</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-87632820476478899402012-02-25T09:01:00.000-08:002012-02-25T09:02:58.969-08:00Princess Grace Foundation<p style="line-height: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span >The <a href="http://www.pgfusa.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(62, 100, 126); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">Princess Grace Foundation-USA</a> has announced the availability of applications for the 2012 Princess Grace Awards in theater, playwriting, dance performance, choreography, and film.</span></p><p style="line-height: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span >Founded in 1982, the foundation identifies and assists emerging artists in theater, dance, and film, and has awarded more than $8.5 million to nearly six hundred individuals in the United States.</span></p><p style="line-height: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span >Theater Awards are offered in the form of scholarships, apprenticeships, and fellowships. Grants are awarded based on the quality of the emerging artist's past work, his/her potential for future excellence, and the impact the collaboration between the nominating organization and the artist will have on the individual's artistic growth. The Playwriting Award includes a residency at New Dramatists, Inc. and opportunity for the winning play to be licensed and published by Samuel French, Inc. (Deadline: March 21, 2012.)</span></p><p style="line-height: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span >Dance Performance Awards are offered in the form of scholarships and fellowships. Awards are based on the applicant's artistic merit, significance of the award to current artistic development, and the potential for future excellence and impact on the field. Choreography Awards offer emerging choreographers the opportunity to create a new work with organizations with which they have little experience. (Deadline: April 30, 2012.)</span></p><p style="line-height: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span >Film Scholarships, awarded to undergraduate and graduate students, are by invitation-only. Approved university, college, and school film programs are invited to submit applicants via their department chairs or deans. Film scholarships provide funding toward the filmmaker's thesis project. (A complete list of accepted schools is available at the foundation's Web site.) (Deadline: June 1, 2012.)</span></p><p style="line-height: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span >For more information, <a href="http://www.pgfusa.org/">click here</a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-4926231366176664702012-02-01T16:53:00.000-08:002012-02-01T16:55:09.932-08:00NEA "Our Town" Grants<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; mso-line-height-alt:9.0pt;background:white"><span >Through<i> Our Town</i>, subject to the availability of funding, the National Endowment for the Arts will provide a limited number of grants, ranging from $25,000 to $150,000, for creative placemaking projects that contribute toward the livability of communities and help transform them into lively, beautiful, and sustainable places with the arts at their core. <i>Our Town</i> will invest in creative and innovative projects in which communities, together with their arts and design organizations and artists, seek to:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span >Improve their quality of life.<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span >Encourage creative activity.<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span >Create community identity and a sense of place.<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span >Revitalize local economies.<o:p></o:p></span></li> </ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span ><b>Date due</b>: March 1, 2012</span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span ><b>Amount</b>: $25,000 - $150,000</span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span >For more information, <a href="http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/OurTown/index.html">click here</a>.</span></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-11419016872862444852012-01-31T16:03:00.001-08:002012-01-31T16:04:16.913-08:00Grants in Emerging Fields, Literature, and Performing Arts<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://creative-capital.org/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#3E647E; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Creative Capital</span></b></a>, a national nonprofit organization that provides integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing adventurous projects, has announced guidelines and the application schedule for its 2012 grant cycle.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br /></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">This year's program is open to artists working in emerging fields, literature, and performing arts. Emerging fields may include architecture/design, digital arts, gaming, interdisciplinary, new genres, and sound art. Literature may include fiction, genre-defying literary work, nonfiction, and poetry. Performing arts is focused on the live performing arts and may include dance, dance-theater, experimental music performance, interdisciplinary, multimedia performance, music-theater, non-traditional opera, performance art, puppetry, spoken word and theater.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br /></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Creative Capital is interested in supporting artists who demonstrate bold, inventive, and singular ideas in project form and content; are at a catalytic moment in their creative practice and career approach; are deeply engaged with and rigorously committed to their art form; have potential for significant artistic and cultural impact; and understand the professional landscape of their field. To be eligible to apply, an artist must be a U.S. citizen or permanent legal resident, at least 25 years old, a working artist with at least five years of professional experience, and not a full-time student.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br /></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Amount</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">: $10,000<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br /></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Date due</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">: March 1, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br /></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">For more information,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://creative-capital.org/apply/">click here</a>.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>WOU Sponsored Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11876957306470094394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-40746256489265600382011-12-15T16:05:00.001-08:002011-12-15T16:05:45.219-08:00America's Music (NEH)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><b>America’s Music: A Film History of Our Popular Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway</b> is a six-week public program featuring documentary film screenings and scholar-led discussions of twentieth-century American popular music. The six sessions focus on these uniquely American musical genres: blues and gospel, Broadway, jazz, bluegrass and country, rock n’ roll, and mambo and hip hop. The project will provide DVDs of compelling documentary films, discussion guidelines, original essays by eminent scholars, extensive resource guides, and Web support. The project will offer participating organizations training in how to organize, promote, and run the series successfully. All libraries and nonprofit organizations selected to implement the public program will receive grants of $2,500 for project expenses. Fifty organizations (libraries and other eligible nonprofits) will be selected to receive a grant to present this series of community programs on the history of American popular music. The grantee institutions are expected to offer the programs between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2013. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><b>Amount</b>: $2,500</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><b>Date due:</b> March 14, 2012</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >For more information, <a href="http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/SGL_BluestoBluegrass.html">click here</a>.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-53025421590502412262011-11-21T07:23:00.000-08:002011-11-21T07:25:13.124-08:00MetLife Creative Connections<p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MetLife Creative Connections </span>provides support for American composers to participate in public activities related to specific performances of their original music. By supporting the composer’s interaction with audiences, performers, arts organizations, and local communities, Metlife Creative Connections aims to increase public awareness and enhance the creative artist’s role in society.</span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span><p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Metlife Creative Connections applications are submitted by a Sponsoring Organization requesting support for one or more composers participating in public activities organized, sponsored, and/or presented by the organization.</span></p><p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Amount</span>: $3,500</span></p><p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Date due</span>: January 7, 2012</span></p><p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">For more information, <a href="http://www.meetthecomposer.org/creativeconnections">click here</a>.<br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-44141031567506974232011-10-01T10:11:00.000-07:002011-10-01T10:15:38.967-07:00Chamber Music America Announces Fall Funding Opportunities (Jazz, Classical)<h2 style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Chamber Music America announces awards for classical and jazz ensembles.<br /></span></h2> <p style="font-family:arial;"> </p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">The <span style="font-weight: bold;">CMA/ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming</span> recognize ensembles and presenters for their commitment to public programming of recent classical/contemporary and/or jazz music. Awards will be presented at the CMA National Conference in New York City, January 12-15, 2012. Each recipient will receive a $500 award and a plaque. Applicants must be based in the United States or its territories, be either a not-for-profit presenter or an ensemble of two to ten musicians, have been in existence for at least two years, and be a current CMA organization-level member. (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Deadline: October 7, 2011</span>.) </span></span><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">The <span style="font-weight: bold;">CMA Presenting Jazz program</span> supports concert presenters in engaging U.S.-based jazz ensembles in concert settings. To be eligible, a presenter must be a U.S.-based nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that has presented at least ten public music concerts by professional, touring music ensembles over the past two years and be a CMA organization-level member. The jazz ensemble named in the application must be based in the U.S. or its territories, consist of two to ten members, have performed together as a professional touring jazz ensemble for a minimum of two years, and include improvisation as an integral part of its composition and performance. Core support will range from $5,000 to $10,000. Additional incentives of $1,000 are available for a presenter engaging a CMA New Works/New Jazz Works grantee, and if the CMA New Works/New Jazz Works grantee ensemble performs its CMA commission in its entirety. (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Deadline: October 14, 2011</span>.)</span></p> <p face="arial"><span style="font-size:130%;">The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Residency Partnership Program</span> supports ensembles and presenters in reaching audiences for classical/contemporary, jazz, and world chamber music through residency projects. Funding is specifically aimed at activities that take place in community settings. U.S.-based ensembles and not-for-profit presenters may submit an application for a residency. The organizing and ensemble partners must be CMA organization-level members. Typical residency activities include but are not limited to workshops, ensemble coachings, master classes, clinics, lecture-demonstrations, and open rehearsals. Grants provide up to a maximum of $6,000 for a short-term residency and $12,000 for an extended residency. (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Deadline: November 18, 2011</span>.)</span></p><p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">For more information, <a href="http://www.chamber-music.org/">click here</a>.<br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-47953974356472836142011-09-22T13:25:00.001-07:002011-09-22T13:25:49.415-07:00Scholarly Editions and Translations<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Scholarly Editions and Translations </span><span style="font-family: arial;">grants support the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts and documents that are currently inaccessible or available in inadequate editions. These grants support full-time or part-time activities for periods of a minimum of one year up to a maximum of three years. Projects must be undertaken by a team of at least one editor or translator and one other staff member. Grants typically support editions and translations of significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials, but other types of work, such as musical notation, are also eligible.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Amount</span><span style="font-family: arial;">: $300,000</span><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"><br />Date due:</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> December 8, 2011</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: arial;">For more information,</span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/editions.html"> click here</a><span style="font-family: arial;">.</span></span>WOU Sponsored Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11876957306470094394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-51041260879172538872011-04-08T14:17:00.000-07:002011-04-08T14:21:16.392-07:00ASCAP Foundation Songwriters & Composers Education grant<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The<b> </b></span></span><a href="http://www.ascapfoundation.org/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b>ASCAP Foundation</b></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> is a publicly supported charitable organization dedicated to supporting American music creators and encouraging their development through music education and talent development programs.</span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The foundation is accepting Letters of Intent for new 2012 grant funding from organizations engaged in music education and talent development programs for aspiring songwriters and composers.</span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The foundation does not consider requests for general operating or administrative support or annual giving campaigns, capital purposes, endowments, deficit operations, recordings, marketing efforts, or performance and production funding. The foundation does not purchase advertisements, sponsor events, or donate equipment.</span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The foundation's <b>average grant is between $1,500 and $3,000</b> and is made on an annual one-time basis. </span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Grant applications are by invitation only. Applicants must first submit a LOI and then be invited by the ASCAP Foundation to complete and submit a full grant application.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For examples of the types of projects funded, <a href="http://www.ascapfoundation.org/newgrants2011.html">click here</a>.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For the full Letter of Intent and Grant application instructions, <a href="http://www.ascapfoundation.org/grants.html">click here</a>.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b>Due date:</b> LOI, August 1, 2011.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p>WOU Sponsored Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11876957306470094394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-79546901782749796462011-03-28T16:21:00.001-07:002011-03-28T16:21:17.976-07:00NEH Challenge Grants<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">NEH challenge grants</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "> are capacity-building grants, intended to help institutions and organizations secure long-term improvements in and support for their humanities programs and resources. Grants may be used to establish or enhance endowments or spend-down funds (that is, funds that are invested, with both the income and the principal being expended over a defined period of years) that generate expendable earnings to support ongoing program activities. Grantees may also use funds for one-time capital expenditures (such as construction and renovation, purchase of equipment, and acquisitions) that bring long-term benefits to the institution and to the humanities more broadly.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><b>Amount</b>: Varies</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><b>Date due</b>: May 4, 2011</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">For more information, <a href="http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/challenge.html">click here</a>.</span></span></div>WOU Sponsored Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11876957306470094394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-18798183880880118412011-03-11T13:39:00.000-08:002011-03-11T13:41:16.907-08:00French-American Jazz Exchange<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A partnership of the </span></span><a href="http://www.frenchculture.org/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Cultural Services of the French Embassy</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, the </span></span><a href="http://www.facecouncil.org/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">French-American Cultural Exchange</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, and the </span></span><a href="http://www.midatlanticarts.org/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, the French-American Jazz Exchange is designed to foster the creative and professional development of jazz artists from France and the United States. FAJE supports projects jointly conceived by French and American professional jazz artists that encourage artistic exploration, foster intercultural dialogue, and contribute to the dynamism of the art form. The program will support activities that may result in the creation of new work, establishment of new creative and professional partnerships, and development of new audiences for the participating artists. Projects may include jazz artists in France and the United States working together or investigating forms other than jazz with artists who work in different music genres.</span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">To be eligible, a project must consist of a lead partner from one country working with a collaborating partner from the other country. Lead and collaborating partners may be either individual artists or ensembles (not to exceed five musicians). Ensembles may represent an established group or musicians brought together specifically for the proposed project. Projects can include artists working together for the first time or those who have a prior working relationship. </span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b>Amount</b>: $25,000</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b>Date due:</b> May 31, 2011</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">For more information, <a href="http://www.midatlanticarts.org/funding/pat_presentation/FAJE/FAJE_guidelines.html">click here</a>.</span></span></p>WOU Sponsored Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11876957306470094394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-61277918327828151602011-01-05T16:19:00.000-08:002011-01-05T16:20:55.026-08:00Etant donnés: The French-American Fund for the Performing Arts Offers Funding for French and American Theater Programs<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Etant donnés</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> offers financial support in the form of grants to American nonprofit institutions producing or presenting theater projects (tours, residencies, translations) either of contemporary French playwrights or with French theater professionals (directors, actors, stage-designers, etc.). New productions of classical repertory are only eligible if they involve collaboration with a French director/playwright/other professionals.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Amount</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: The amount of a grant request cannot exceed 50 percent of the total budget for the project and/or $25,000.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Date due</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: February 1, 2011</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For more information, </span></span><a href="http://www.facecouncil.org/etantdonnes/performingart.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">click here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></div>WOU Sponsored Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11876957306470094394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-61218906400648714942011-01-05T16:16:00.000-08:002011-01-05T16:18:32.533-08:00Ford Family Foundation Visual Arts Program Funds Opportunity Grants for Oregon Artists<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The </span></span><a href="http://www.oregonartscommission.org/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Oregon Arts Commission</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> has announced an agreement with the </span></span><a href="http://www.tfff.org/VisualArtsProgram/VisualArtsProgramBackground/tabid/154/Default.aspx" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ford Family Foundation Visual Arts Program</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> to manage new Opportunity Grants to be reviewed in conjunction with the commission's Career Opportunity Grants. </span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Ford Family Foundation is offering additional resources to Oregon visual artists who face unanticipated circumstances and for whom the grants could help significantly advance the creation, production, or exhibition of their work. The new grants are a component of the foundation's Visual Arts Program, which seeks to accelerate an enhanced quality of artistic endeavor and bodies of work by mid-career Oregon visual artists, and to improve Oregon's visual arts ecology. </span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b>Amount</b>: $7,500</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b>Date due</b>: February 14, 2011; May 16, 2011</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For more information, <a href="http://www.oregonartscommission.org/support_for_the_arts/grants/grant_inds.php">click here</a>.</span></span></p>WOU Sponsored Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11876957306470094394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-64522461190042858032010-10-25T16:18:00.000-07:002010-10-25T16:19:41.455-07:00Bellagio Center Residency Program<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Through conferences and residencies, the </span></span><a href="http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b>Rockefeller Foundation</b></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b>'s Bellagio Center</b> in northern Italy brings together people of diverse expertise and backgrounds in a thought-provoking, collegial environment that helps to promote impact on a wide range of world issues. </span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The center's residency program allows for one month of disciplined work, uninterrupted by the professional and personal demands of daily life, in a diverse and stimulating community of fellow residents. Residents include an international cohort of scholars, scientists, journalists, writers, artists, non-governmental organization practitioners, and policy makers. In addition to time for writing, creativity, and reflection during the day, building new connections and collegial interaction with other residents is an integral dimension of the Bellagio experience. Meals and informal presentations of residents' work afford an opportunity for dynamic discussion and engagement with each other. </span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Residencies typically last four weeks, and spouses/life partners may accompany residents. Team residencies for small groups of two to four are also available; practitioners (i.e., not artists or scholars based at universities) may opt for two two-week residency periods.</span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b>DUE DATE</b>: December 1, 2010 </span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For more information,<a href="http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/bellagio-center"> click here</a>.</span></span></p>WOU Sponsored Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11876957306470094394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-74463264411942363762010-06-01T12:55:00.000-07:002010-06-01T13:08:14.415-07:00PGE Foundation Grants supporting Arts & Culture<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">PGE Foundation</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> is committed to improving the quality of life in </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Oregon </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> by awarding grants in the areas of </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">education</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">healthy families</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, and </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">arts and culture</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">. In the education category, the Foundation supports a wide range of programs, from preschool through college. In the healthy families category, the focus is on organizations that work to promote services in all areas of health, including hunger, mental health, homelessness, domestic violence, health care, etc. In the arts and culture category, the Foundation strives to educate all ages through the support of arts curriculum development as well as a variety of cultural performances.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Amount</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">: $2,500 - $10,000</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Date due:</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> The remaining 2010 deadlines for letters of inquiry are July 13 and November 16.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">For more information, </span></span><a href="http://www.pgefoundation.org/how_we_fund.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">click here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></span></div>WOU Sponsored Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11876957306470094394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-45710221684960854452010-05-05T14:43:00.000-07:002010-05-05T14:45:28.671-07:00MetLife "Meet the Composer" Competition<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Administered by </span></span><a href="http://www.meetthecomposer.org/" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Meet the Composer</span></span></b></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, the </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">MetLife Creative Connections program</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> provides support for American composers to participate in public activities related to specific performances of their original music. By supporting the composer's interaction with audiences, performers, arts organizations, and local communities, the program aims to increase public awareness and enhance the creative artist's role in society.</span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The program is open to U.S. composers and U.S-based sponsoring organizations. Applications are submitted by the sponsoring organization (a presenter, ensemble, dance company, etc.) requesting support for one or more composers (up to six). Grants are awarded to support the composer's participation fee for outreach activities.</span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There are no limits or restrictions on the style or genre of music to be performed or presented.</span></span></p><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Amount</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: $250 - $5000</span></span></p><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Date due</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: June 1, 2010</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For more information, </span></span><a href="http://www.meetthecomposer.org/creativeconnections"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">click here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></p>WOU Sponsored Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11876957306470094394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-51879180338374407542010-04-28T17:12:00.000-07:002010-04-28T17:13:55.346-07:00Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowships<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The </span></span><a href="http://www.tcg.org/fox/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">William & Eva Fox Foundation</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and </span></span><a href="http://www.tcg.org/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Theatre Communications Group</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> established the</span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowships</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> as a two-year pilot program to support both emerging and established actors.</span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Fox Fellowships program seeks to further an actor's artistic and professional development, to deepen and enrich his/her relationship with a not-for-profit theater, to ensure his/her continued professional commitment to live theater, and to encourage actors to work outside their comfort zone. </span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The fellowships are awarded to actors in two categories — Extraordinary Potential, for early to mid-career actors who have completed their training within the last fifteen years; and Distinguished Achievement, for actors who have demonstrated considerable experience in professional theater, with a substantial body of work. </span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The program will bestow a total of five fellowships per year in both categories. Recipients in the Extraordinary Potential category will receive $15,000, with an additional $10,000 available to relieve student loan debt. Recipients in the Distinguished Achievement category will receive $25,000. The host theater will receive $7,500 to be applied to costs incurred in the actor's residency activities.</span></span></p><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Date due</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: June 11, 2010</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For more information, </span></span><a href="http://www.tcg.org/grants/fox/fox_index.cfm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">click here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. </span></span></p>WOU Sponsored Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11876957306470094394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-39102933781016144912010-04-28T17:07:00.000-07:002010-04-28T17:09:47.095-07:00Film Festival Grants<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> is accepting applications for its </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Film Festival Grants program</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> for nonprofit film festivals in the United States that will take place during the 2011 calendar year. 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. </span></span><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Only festivals based in the United States that have held at least five festivals as of December 31, 2009, are eligible to apply this year. Individual festivals are not allowed to receive grants in successive years. Festivals that do not screen films in a theatrical setting are not eligible to apply.</span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Eligible film festivals may apply for grants at four funding levels ranging from $2,500 to $30,000, depending on the cash budget of the festival. Grant requests must target one or more concrete elements within the festival. No grants will be awarded for general support.</span></span></p><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Date due</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: July 1, 2010</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For more information, </span></span><a href="http://www.oscars.org/education-outreach/grants/filmfestival/index.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">click here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></p>WOU Sponsored Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11876957306470094394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-44599789126399892672010-03-23T15:58:00.000-07:002010-03-23T16:00:52.088-07:00Jazz NEXT<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The </span></span><a href="http://www.midatlanticarts.org/" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation</span></span></b></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> is accepting applications for the second round of its </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Jazz.NEXT grant</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> program. </span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Developed in partnership with the </span></span><a href="http://www.ddcf.org/" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Doris Duke Charitable Foundation</span></span></b></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">,</span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Jazz.NEXT</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> is designed to test substantive and innovative projects that utilize technology to improve communications with existing audiences and engage new constituents, distribute the work of jazz artists to a broader public, and connect the disparate members of the jazz field into a more cohesive and effective community better equipped to face current and future challenges. </span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Round II of the program will provide support for the implementation of innovative, fully developed plans that incorporate technology to address audience development, communications, distribution, marketing, and network building. Grants may support projects that are new to the grantees or clearly represent taking their current technology efforts to the next level of development in order to advance their proposed concepts rather than simply maintaining or modifying them. </span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">To be eligible, the applicant must be a jazz artist who is a citizen or permanent resident of the United States or a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization (or an organization with an eligible fiscal sponsor) with a history of programming jazz or providing services to jazz artists or jazz organizations. Applicants must have demonstrated some prior experience working with technology applications in addressing audience development, communications, creation and presentation, marketing and promotion, networking, or other capacity-building endeavors.</span></span></p><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Date due</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: June 1, 2010</span></span></p><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Amount</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: $10,000 - $75,000</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For more information,</span></span><a href="http://www.midatlanticarts.org/funding/knowledge_building/JazzNext/guidelines.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> click here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></p>WOU Sponsored Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11876957306470094394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-136938204682931612010-02-24T16:42:00.000-08:002010-02-24T16:44:04.781-08:00Cultural Exchange Fund Travel Awards<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Cultural Exchange Fund</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, a travel subsidy program supported by the </span></span><a href="http://www.mellon.org/" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Andrew W. Mellon Foundation</span></span></b></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">and administered by the </span></span><a href="http://www.artspresenters.org/" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Association of Performing Arts Presenters</span></span></b></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, assists United States-based presenters in building partnerships and collaborations with international touring artists, companies, and their collaborators and in seeing the work of artists from around the world in its appropriate cultural context. </span></span></p> <p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Arts Presenters</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> will award </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">travel subsidies</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> to individual presenters, presenting organizations, and to groups of presenters traveling to see the work of artists, companies, and/or to develop and advance projects with international artists and their collaborators. All applicants must be active members of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters. In promoting cross-cultural arts programming, Arts Presenters strongly encourages travel to locations including, but not limited to, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and Africa.</span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b>Arts Presenters</b> will fund individual travel subsidies as well as group travel subsidies. The maximum amount awarded per individual organization, inclusive of travel costs and per diem, is $2,000 each. Group travel subsidies will be awarded only to groups of three or more presenters from different member presenting organizations. The maximum award for a group is $10,000 each, with no more than $2,000 awarded per organization.</span></span></p><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Date due</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: May 14, 2010</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For more information, </span></span><a href="http://www.apapconference.org/cultural-exchange-fund-application-guidelines-final.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">click here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></p>WOU Sponsored Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11876957306470094394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-7763569787135698482010-02-22T12:48:00.000-08:002010-02-22T12:50:49.406-08:00Arts in Education Model Development<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination (AEMDD) Program</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> supports the enhancement, expansion, documentation, evaluation, and dissemination of innovative, cohesive models that are based on research and have demonstrated that they effectively--(1) Integrate standards-based arts education into the core elementary and middle school curriculum; (2) strengthen standards-based arts instruction in these grades; and (3) improve students' academic performance, including their skills in creating, performing, and responding to the arts. Projects funded through the AEMDD Program are intended to increase the amount of nationally available information on effective models for arts education that integrate the arts with standards-based education programs.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Amount</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: $250,000</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Date due</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: March 16, 2010</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For more information, </span></span><a href="http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=JgNrLClc1W2hZWhP5VJ12QMTjHYxqGpfLBnngVhcXjB0LTl0kypt!-402085139?oppId=51319&mode=VIEW"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">click here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></div><div><br /></div>WOU Sponsored Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11876957306470094394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-52552544330700175462010-02-22T12:32:00.001-08:002010-02-22T12:36:28.459-08:00U.S. -- Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;">The </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;">Department of Education</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;"> announces the </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;">U.S.-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;"> to support the formation of educational consortia of U.S. and Brazilian institutions. To meet this priority, the applicant must propose a project that supports cooperation in the coordination of curricula; the exchange of students, if pertinent to grant activities; and the opening of educational opportunities between the U.S. and Brazil. In order to be eligible for an award under this priority, the applicant in the U.S. must be a U.S. institution and the applicant in Brazil must be a Brazilian institution. </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;">The focus of the consortium can be an discipline</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;">.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;">The purpose of this grant program is to promote more than student exchange, it is also curriculum development as well as language and cultural preparation to promote student mobility. Students should be exchanged in the context of a common program of study or curriculum and should draw benefits from the added value of spending time abroad. The time abroad should count for their study within their academic major at their home institution and should not significantly increase their time to degree completion.</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;">Amount</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;">: $240,000 (spread across four years)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;">Due date</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;">: March 25, 2010</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;">For more information, </span></span><a href="http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=JgNrLClc1W2hZWhP5VJ12QMTjHYxqGpfLBnngVhcXjB0LTl0kypt!-402085139?oppId=51296&mode=VIEW"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;">click here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;">.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div>WOU Sponsored Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11876957306470094394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-54881748942012521252010-02-11T15:14:00.000-08:002010-02-11T15:16:43.481-08:00Regional Arts & Culture Council General Support Grant Program (Portland)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">RACC General Support Grant Program</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> aims to provide general financial support to arts organizations in </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas Counties</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">, based on their artistic excellence, proven service to the community, administrative and fiscal competence and RACC grant compliance. The General Support Grant Program seeks to fund arts organizations and help provide a wide range of quality arts programming made available to the public. The minimum General Support Grant award is $7,000 for each year of the grant cycle.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Amount</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">: $7,000</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Date due</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">: March 3, 2010</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">For more information, </span></span><a href="http://data.racc.org/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=GrantApps&-loadframes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">click here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">.</span></span></div>WOU Sponsored Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11876957306470094394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386147958893056671.post-4538703254118555502010-02-11T15:10:00.000-08:002010-02-11T15:13:14.192-08:00Professional Development Grant Program (Portland)<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Professional Development Grant Program</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> assists artists or representatives of arts organizations with opportunities that specifically improve their business management skills and/or help advance the careers of the individual artist or the arts administrator by supporting expenses related to specific, unique opportunities that have potential to significantly impact an individual’s work and professional development. An opportunity may be one of many things, but it must clearly demonstrate how the proposal will benefit the organization or individual long-term.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Unlike grant programs that support the creation of new work, this program does not ask panelists to critique the applicant’s previous work. Instead, reviewers must determine from the application: (1) whether the opportunity is unique, and not a repetition of the applicant’s similar, previous experiences; (2) whether the applicant has made the case that this opportunity is timely and has true potential to positively impact their career or organization.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Artists who are current residents of Clackamas, Multnomah, or Washington counties and who meet the eligibility criteria are eligible to apply.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Date due: April 14, 2010</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For more information, </span></span><a href="http://data.racc.org/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=GrantApps&-loadframes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">click here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></div>WOU Sponsored Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11876957306470094394noreply@blogger.com