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Open Competitions

America's Historical and Cultural Organizations
NEH's America's Historical and Cultural Organizations grants support humanities projects that encourage dialogue, discussion and civic engagement. Planning and implementation...
America's Media Makers: Development & Production Grants
NEH's America's Media Makers program supports projects in the humanities that explore stories, ideas and beliefs. Both production and development grants are available.
Annual Grant Competition
The USIP will grant 20-25 awards of up to $100,000 for projects that bring awareness to conflict resolution and peacebuilding worldwide.
APAP Building Bridges Campus Community Engagement Program
Public media stations (especially university-licensed stations) would be excellent partners for this initiative to engage young adults with Muslim communities and cultures. Deadline: April...
Art Works
This NEA program, newly restructured in 2011, encourages and supports creation, engagement, learning and livability in communities.
Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges
NEH will make 7-9 grants of $120,000 for projects that use collaboration with humanities institutions to enrich humanities education and scholarship at community colleges.
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
This NEH program awards two levels of grants, both of which support projects that employ digital technology to improve humanities research, education, preservation, access and public...
Documenting Democracy: Access to Historical Records Projects
This National Archives and Records Administration program supports four types of archival projects that expand understanding of the American past. Applications are due 10/3/13.
Enduring Questions
This NEH grant program supports the development of a new undergraduate course that will foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question.
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
This NEH program funds efforts to extend the life of important collections of books, photographs, sound recordings, movings images, artifacts, art and material culture and digital objects.
Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
The NEH will grant awards of up to $100,000 for projects that strengthen and enrich humanities education at historically black colleges and universities.
Programming Grants to Accompany NEH On the Road Exhibitions
NEH will award grants of $1,000 for activities to accompany the NEH on the Road traveling exhibitions. Stations should consider partnering with eligible humanities organizations.
PROHIBITION Community Engagement Grants
WETA is offering grants to help stations explore themes and issues related to this new film by Ken Burns.
Publishing Historical Records
NARA will fund 30 projects for a total of $2.5M, supporting those which publish historical records with free online access.

Rolling Deadlines

Alexia Foundation for World Peace
The foundation’s new Women’s Initiative will award a production grant of $25,000 to a photojournalist for a project focused on abuse of women in the United States.
Alphawood Foundation
Nonprofits in metropolitan Chicago whose mission involves the arts, arts education, social change advocacy or domestic violence intervention can receive general operating grants from this...
Argosy Foundation
While most unsolicited proposals are not accepted, the foundation does accept proposals for commissioning, performance and broadcast of contemporary classical music through its Contemporary...
Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
This foundation provides completion funding for production of educational public media.
ArtPlace
This funder collaborative supports projects that use art to accelerate "creative placemaking."
Arts Council of New Orleans
The Arts Council provides funding to support arts and cultural activities in Orleans, Jefferson and Plaquemines Parishes. It serves as one of eight regional distributing agencies for state...
Atherton Family Foundation
This Hawaii foundation supports organizations working in the areas of arts/culture, human services, education, environment, community development, health and religion/spiritual development.
Baltimore Community Foundation
The Foundation will focus discretionary giving increasingly on education and will double its investment in education beginning in 2012.
Baton Rouge Area Foundation
This foundation works with its donors to connect them to nonprofits meeting community needs. It also invests in projects that have the potential to change the community.
Bloch Fund
The Bloch Foundation has identified the following areas of interest: arts, education, family services, federated giving programs, higher education, human services, religion.
Boston Foundation
Competitive grants are made through the Foundation's Permanent Fund for Boston in the areas of education, health/wellness, civic/cultural vibrancy, job growth, increasing the...
Brown Foundation, Inc
Support from this foundation is principally for education, the arts and community service. The current emphasis is on improving public education within the state of Texas.
C.E. Bennett Foundation
This foundation makes a small number of grants in the area of arts, including to public media.
Cades Foundation
Organizations working in the areas of arts/culture, environment, human services and education receive support from this foundation.
Caesars Foundation
Formerly the Harrah’s Foundation, Caesars makes grants for healthy aging, arts and educational programming in areas of company operation.
Cal Humanities
Accepts applications for Community Stories (up to $10,000), with a new emphasis on stories of veterans and those who care for them, plus Documentary Project Grants.
Champlin Foundations
Giving from this foundation is primarily for conservation, education, libraries, health, hospitals, cultural activities, historic preservation, and social and family services.
Charlottesville Area Community Foundation
Grants from this foundation are available in the areas of youth, education and community services for work in Charlottesville, VA, and the surrounding counties.
Chicago Community Trust
This Trust makes grants in five programs: arts and culture, basic human needs, community development, education and health.
CIRI Foundation
The major goal of The CIRI Foundation is to encourage the education and career development of The Foundation's Alaska Native beneficiaries. Project grants are made in Education and...
Citizens Charitable Foundation
The foundation makes grants in areas of company operations nationwide, including to public media. Interests include the arts and education.
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina
This foundation fosters philanthropy for the lasting good of the community, primarily for education and human services.
Collins Foundation
Grants in arts, children and youth, community welfare, education, environment, health and science, humanities and religion are awarded by this foundation.
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
This foundation is a prospect for public media organizations serving the 23-county metropolitan Atlanta region. Most grants are for general operating or capacity-building support.
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
This foundation prefers projects that reflect regional thinking and cooperation, promote civic participation, foster innovation, help move the region forward and leverage public and private...
Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham
The Foundation makes grants in the areas of early childhood education, dropout prevention, economic security, health and vibrant communities. Next grant cycle: June.
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis
This foundation's Community Partnership Program makes Nonprofit Capacity Building Grants and Research and Initiatives Grants.
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee
This foundation is dedicated to enriching the quality of life in middle Tennessee but has also funded media projects in other parts of the country.
Community Foundation of Sarasota County
This foundation's grantmaking is focused in arts, culture and the humanities; civic engagement and community capacity-building; education; the environment; healthcare and human...
Community Foundation Serving Richmond and Central Virginia
The primary focus of this foundation's competitive grantmaking is their Strengthening Families - Strengthening Communities program that promotes youth and community development and...
Dade Community Foundation
Serving the Miami-Dade community, this foundation addresses education, health, human services, arts and culture, environment, economic development, youth, homelessness, social justice and...
Dakota Charitable Foundation
Primarily, this foundation gives for education and human services but is also interested in the arts, community and economic development and higher education.
Dallas Foundation
Aging, arts, education, early childhood development, environment, health, human and social services and public/civic benefit are all areas of interest to this foundation.
Daniel Foundation of Alabama
Areas of interest for this foundation are civic and community, education, health, and arts and culture.
Davis Family Foundation
This foundation supports higher education, medical programs, and arts and culture organizations that promote music, theater, drama, history and literature.
Deluxe Corporation Foundation
The Foundation makes grants in many communities nationwide. It supports public media and has interests in education, youth and the arts.
Denver Foundation
The Foundation is undergoing a change in strategy, but is maintaining a strong interest in education (including dropout prevention), especially focused on low-income and underrepresented...
Dodge Foundation
The Foundation invests in traditional and online/digital media initiatives to educate and inform the public around issues of importance to New Jersey.
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
The Foundation supports major arts initiatives, as well as media projects to inform Americans about Muslim societies and cultures.
Elizabeth B. and Arthur E. Roswell Foundation
The major priorities of this foundation are arts and culture and environmental protection.
Ettinger Foundation
This foundation makes grants to pre-selected organizations in diverse areas, including independent film.
Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation
Seeking to enrich the quality of life in the Fargo-Moorhead area, this foundation funds programs in arts and culture, community betterment, education, environment, health and human rights.
Ford Motor Company Fund
This foundation supports innovation and education, community development and auto-related safety education. There is a fit for public media projects that expand or promote diversity.
Fresno Regional Foundation
The Fresno Regional Foundation will begin making grants of $100,000 - $300,000 from its new Fund for the San Joaquin Valley in 2012.
General Mills Foundation
The Foundation mainly makes grants in Minnesota, but also supports health/nutrition, arts and education in areas of company operation.
George Gund Foundation
Founded to contribute to human well-being and the progress of society, this foundation supports the arts, education, economic development, the environment and human services.
George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation
With a mission to enrich Utah, this foundation makes grants in arts and culture, community, education, health care, and preservation and conservation.
Gertrude C. Ford Foundation
Primarily, this foundation supports education, health and youth-serving organizations in Mississippi.
Gilhousen Family Foundation
Focusing its support in Gallatin County, Montana, this foundation makes grants in community-building, children's and human services, the arts, health care, education and the...
Gill Foundation
The foundation's top priority is support for organizations that advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. It supports public media through its Gay & Lesbian...

WEBINARS/CONFERENCE CALLS

Building a Strong Art Works Proposal for the National Endowment for the Arts
Watch the recording and download the resources from this May webinar on NEA's Art Works program and other NEA Media Arts grant opportunities. Air Date: May 29, 2013.
Strategies for Grantseeking Success: Building for the Future
Watch the recording from this webinar in the Grant Center's Strategies for Grantseeking Success series for tips on building long term relationships with foundations. Air Date: January 29,...

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