RESOURCES :: GRANTS

Grants are requests for cash support. All grant-making institutions share certain similarities: they have funding goals, usually focused around issues important to the funder; they must receive information about your plan in a timely manner; they must review that information - which is often in competition with other proposals; and they must make a decision as to which proposals should receive funding.

Explore Grantwriting for information on grantseeking and grantwriting...

Foundations
Government

 
Foundations

Foundations are private funders driven by their own goals. They each have their own set of programs with respective processes and deadlines. Funders known to support community-focused projects include:

  Wallace - Reader's Digest Funds

  Rockefeller Foundation
Note the Partnerships Affirming Community Transformation program in the Creativity and Culture Division. The site also includes background theoretical information and a publications list.

  Ford Foundation
Note the Media, Arts and Culture programs. The site also includes theoretical background information.

  Laidlaw Foundation
Note the Take Part! Initiatives in Cultural Democracy program.

 
Governments

Government funders are agents of the government in which they are housed. Government funders support initiatives within their boundaries - national, state, county, city, etc. Each is different from the other and has its own goals and rules governing program development and implementation.

Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs

Seattle Department of Neighborhoods

Explore Opportunities for information about current and ongoing arts funding opportunities.