COCA-Notes

Funding Opportunity: ASCAP FOUNDATION (Letter of Inquiry Form Deadline: August 1, 2008)

The ASCAP Foundation supports American music creators and encourages their development. The foundation provides grants between $3,000–$5,000 to nonprofit organizations engaged in educational programs for aspiring songwriters and composers. The foundation does not consider requests for general operating or administrative support, annual giving campaigns, capital purposes, endowments, deficit operations, recordings, marketing efforts, or performance and production funding. Full grant applications are by invitation only. Letters of Inquiry should be submitted to the ASCAP Foundation as early as possible at www.ascapfoundation.org/index.html.

Funding Opportunity: America’s Media Makers (Deadline: August 27, 2008 for projects beginning April 2009)

Grants for America’s Media Makers support media projects that explore significant events, figures, or developments in the humanities and offer creative and new approaches to humanities content. America’s Media Makers projects promote active exploration and engagement for broad public audiences in history, literature, archaeology, art history, comparative religion, philosophy, and other fields of the humanities. For further information visit http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/AmMediaMakers_production.html.

Funding Opportunity: Cultural Heritage and Nature Tourism Grant (Deadline: April 18, 2008)

For further information about this grant, visit: www.visitflorida.org click on “Industry” and then “Grants” and finally “Cultural Heritage and Nature Tourism Grant”. On the website you will find grant guidelines, tutorial, grant application, project suggestions and even previous year application examples.

Funding Opportunity: SouthArts Fund: Southern Arts Federation Grant Opportunities

The Southern Arts Federation (SAF), a non-profit regional arts organization in partnership with nine state arts agencies offers a number of matching grant opportunities to performing and literary arts presenting organizations. With support from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Southern Arts Federation offers grants and subsidies in an effort to strengthen presenters' organizational capacity, and to sustain and expand markets for arts organizations and artists. Through our touring dollars, we support publicly accessible performances that provide opportunities for the engagement of underserved communities. For further information about these opportunities, visit http://www.southarts.org/site/c.guIYLaMRJxE/b.1303445/.

Funding Opportunity: National Endowment for the Humanities We the People Challenge Grants (Deadline: February 5, 2008)

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invites applications for We the People Challenge Grants in United States History, Institutions, and Culture. This program, part of NEH's We the People program, is designed to help institutions and organizations secure long-term improvements in and support for humanities activities that explore significant themes and events in American history, thereby advancing knowledge of how the founding principles of the United States have shaped American history and culture for more than two hundred years. The Endowment particularly welcomes proposals for programming at America's historic places (historic sites, neighborhoods, communities, or larger geographical regions) as well as applications that address this theme through the use of digital technologies. Contact the staff of NEH's Office of Challenge Grants at 202-606-8309 or at challenge@neh.gov. Hearing-impaired applicants can contact NEH via TDD at 1-866-372-2930. Also, visit http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/wtpchallenge.html.

Funding Opportunities: Various

Diversity In Grantmaking Fellowships (Deadline: September 13, 2007)

The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at The City University of New York is offering Diversity Fellowships for its spring 2008 Emerging Leaders International Fellows Program. The Diversity Fellowship is a unique fellowship opportunity for younger scholars or practitioners of color working in the grant making sector, in the United States and overseas, which provides leadership training through applied research and professional mentorships. Go to http://philanthropy.org/programs/intnl_fellows_program.html.

Guggenheim Foundation Grants for Scholars and Artists (Deadline: September 15, 2007)

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation offers fellowships to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them with research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts. The fellowships are awarded to those who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. For further information, go to www.gf.org/applic.html.

Grants for Disability Programs (Deadline: September 15, 2007)

The Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation's Grants for Programs Serving Adults with Disabilities offers program grants of $1,000–$5,000 to U.S. nonprofit organizations, including arts organizations that serve people with disabilities and have been in existence for more than two years. To be eligible, programs must show support from other funding sources within their communities. Go to www.ela.org.

Arts and Healthcare Program Funding (Letter of Inquiry Deadline: September 19, 2007)

Johnson & Johnson and the Society for the Arts in Healthcare seek to promote the use of the arts to enhance the healthcare experience for patients, their families, and caregivers. Proposals are being sought from healthcare and/or arts organizations that have established arts in healthcare programs that operate or warrant replication in underserved communities. For further information, go to http://thesah.org/template/page.cfm?page_id=15#Grantee%20Requirements.

Student Achievement Grants (Deadline: October 15, 2007)

The National Endowment for the Arts Foundation Student Achievement Grants reward academic achievement through critical thinking and problem solving in standards-based subject matter. For further details, go to www.neafoundation.org/programs/StudentAchievement_Guidelines.htm.

Funding Opportunity: National Endowment for the Arts New Granting Initiative for Presenters (Deadline: October 1, 2007)

The National Endowment for the Arts announces a new grant program for arts presenters. The American Masterpieces—Presenters grant program encourages presenting organizations of all sizes, genres, and aesthetics to apply, including networks of presenters, university presenters, and presenters that also apply for Learning in the Arts, Challenge America—Fast Track, or Access to Artistic Excellence grants. Between 30–40 grants will be recommended for funding, and the grants will range from $10,000–$100,000. For further information, go to www.nea.gov/grants/apply/AMPresenting.html.

Funding Opportunity: Arts in Healthcare Grants Available (Letter of Inquiry Deadline: September 19, 2007)

Johnson & Johnson, working in partnership with the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, seeks to promote the use of the arts to enhance the healthcare experience for patients, their families, and caregivers. Since 2001, Johnson & Johnson and the Society for the Arts in Healthcare have provided funding to 107 programs in the United States and Canada that represent leading models and initiatives in high-quality healthcare through the use of arts. Proposals are now being sought from healthcare and/or arts organizations that have established arts in healthcare programs operating in or warranting replication in underserved communities. For further information, go to www.thesah.org.

Funding Opportunity: TDC Special Event Grant Applications Now Available (Deadline: August 24, 2007)

Applications for the Special Event Grant program administered by the Leon County Tourist Development Council, in cooperation with the Tallahassee Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, are now available for cultural events, sporting events and general events. Designated to promote Tallahassee-Leon County as a preferred visitor destination, the Special Event Grant funds events with significant potential to draw overnight visitors to the Tallahassee area. To be considered for funding, the event must attract overnight visitors to Tallahassee-Leon County with a direct impact on transient lodging occupancy including hotels, motels and/or campgrounds. Additional funding considerations include preference for events scheduled during traditionally low occupancy periods, number of out-of-town visitors and event scope and duration. For an application and copy of the policies and procedures, call Wanda Barnard at (850) 606-2300 or visit the Website at www.visitTallahassee.com.

Funding Opportunity: FELLOWSHIPS IN THE VISUAL ARTS, FILM, AND ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN (Application Deadline: May 29, 2007)

The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs will award up to three Cooperative Agreements to support programs for short residency and training programs in the United States for emerging and mid-career visual artists, film artists, and architecture and urban design professionals from selected countries. The goal of each project is to increase cross-cultural understanding internationally by providing program participants with an in-depth exposure to their professional discipline as practiced in the United States; outreach to U.S. colleagues and publics, and opportunities for creation and exhibition of their work. For further details, visit http://exchanges.state.gov/education/rfgps/may29rfgp.htm.