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THIS GRANT’S FOCUS: Arts/Culture, Arts Organization Support, Community, Nonprofit Support, Chicago, Illinois
Deadline: Dec. 15, 2024
“THINK • EXPLORE • SHARE offers grants to enable arts organizations – or collaborative groups of arts organizations – to change operational and/or artistic practices to meet a changing arts environment. These adaptation grants are intended to give organizations room to plan for (THINK) and test and enact (EXPLORE) shifts in organizational structure, operations, and/or financial practices. The grants are intended not for ongoing and regular operational costs but to help organizations redefine key partnerships, address longstanding challenges, navigate critical organizational transitions, and build a foundation of resilience to ensure they can effectively meet their missions.
Successful Arts Work Fund applications have addressed a wide variety of challenges and opportunities facing organizations and our sector. Some have met common challenges for groups of organizations by sharing resources or piloting new ideas together. Priority is given to efforts that can make a meaningful impact on the organization, are clear in their organizational capacity-building goals, and have the potential to create more sustainable operating structures or processes.
THINK Grants: Think grants give arts organizations the time and space to think through a question, analyze challenges and opportunities, and develop plans or small tests of change. Competitive proposals will demonstrate how and why the organization selected the challenge or the questions to be examined and how they will structure their exploration. Priority will be given to groups of organizations working together to share and explore answers.
EXPLORE Grants: Explore grants provide arts organizations who have fully developed ideas with the resources to test and implement the concept. These grants hope to foster the creativity and risk-taking that is essential to creating new and better ways of operating in the current COVID-19 world and addressing some of the aspects of arts organizations that were not working well before the pandemic. Priority will be given to projects that have maximum potential benefit for the organization and the field.”
Funder: Arts Work Fund
Eligibility: “(1) Organizations with an arts-based mission and IRS 501(c) (3) public charity designation or a fiscal agent that has this designation. (2) Arts organizations led by, for, and about black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) with operating expenses of $2 million and below. (3) Any arts and culture organization with operating expenses of $800,000 and below. (4) Located in and serves Chicago and Cook County.”
Amount: Unspecified
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