Grants

new! GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Picturing America School Collaboration Projects
The National Endowment for the Humanities is offering grants of up to $75,000 for conferences that help teachers form connections between Picturing America images and courses in the core curriculum.
Deadline: October 7, 2010
For more information about Picturing America School Collaboration Projects, please visit:
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/PASCP.html.
PROGRAM DETAILS
American colleges, universities, associations, libraries, museums, and other non-profit organizations are encouraged to design conferences that help teachers who have already received the Picturing America images form connections with courses in the core curriculum.

Goals of the Picturing America School Collaboration Projects grants are:
- to strengthen understanding of the connections between great works of American art and significant events, themes, and topics in the American experience; 
- to encourage local and regional collaboration between K-12 educators and humanities experts who can bring appropriate knowledge to the integration of American artworks in core subjects; 
- to foster discussion of how to use the Picturing America images among K-12 teachers within a locality or region; and 
- to provide access to rich scholarly resources and primary materials that support teaching.

Funded projects should
- support one or more conferences of one or two days each; 
- accommodate at each conference thirty to one hundred (or more) participants, all of whom already have access to the Picturing America portfolio; and 
- provide opportunities for participants to engage with scholars, museum and library professionals, and other experts. 

Crayola   20 elementary schools will receive Championing Creatively Alive Children minigrants to implement and document results of an innovative project. Includes $2500 monetary grant and $500 of Crayola products. For more information, E-mail: jflynn@crayola.com and include teacher name, title,    e-mail address, principal name, elementary school, address, and if principal is a member of NAESP (National Association of Elementary School Principals.)  CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION

The Washington State Arts Commission has excellent information on Grants available to Washington State teachers. The Commission uses strategies that support the art EALRs and well as cultivating community partnerships and championing proven art education practices.
http://www.arts.wa.gov/

National Endowment for the Arts provides grants for organizations providing educational programming.  http://arts.endow.gov/grants/index.html

National Foundation for the Improvement of Education offers grants and awards for teachers. http://www.neafoundation.org/grants.htm

U.S. Department of Education to access news, policy, research and grant sections  http://www.ed.gov/fund/grants-apply.html?src=rt

The best single source of arts funding information on the Web is the online library of the Foundation Center. One of the wonderful features of this site is a subpage that allows one to use keywords to search the center's sizable collections of grantmaker files. Also, there is an e-mail link that allows for correspondence with a reference librarian. The best part of this site is the fact that it is both up-to-date and quite comprehensive. It is also easy to access. Another subpage runs through a long alphabetized list of linked foundation descriptions. http://foundationcenter.org/

The Arts Resource Network - Competitions and Funding Page
www.artsresourcenetwork.org/opportunities/competitions_funding/default.asp
The Arts Resource Network lists funding, grants, awards, competitions, calls for artists, exhibitions, auditions and residencies—current and ongoing opportunities.

City of Seattle Website - Arts and Cultural Affairs Pages
www.seattle.gov/arts/WhatWeDo/Funding/default.asp
The City’s website provides an overview of civic funding and lists funding opportunities and applications for arts and culture in Seattle.

Artist Trust
www.artisttrust.org/
Artist Trust provides information and direct grants to artists in all disciplines across the state of Washington.

Arts 4Culture
www.4culture.org/arts/funding.htm
Arts 4Culture provides grants to arts and culture projects using money from state lodging taxes.

Arts Fund
www.artsfund.org/
Arts Fund supports nonprofit arts organizations in the Puget Sound region.

Allied Arts Foundation
www.alliedartsfoundation.org
Provides fiscal sponsorship in the form of small grants to artists and organizations for projects that are usually outside of the mainstream.

Sedrat
www.sedrat.org
A nonprofit multi-disciplinary arts organization, Sedrat establishes a vehicle and support system where unconventional and visionary artistic endeavors are matched with resources, opportunities, and audiences.

PONCHO: http://www.poncho.org/

Pierce County Arts Commission: The Arts Education Grant program seeks to encourage collaborative efforts between arts organizations and Pierce County schools serving students in grades K-12.Grant applications for these programs are made available in August and must be submitted by October. Applications are reviewed and grantees selected in December for the following calendar year.:
http://www.co.pierce.wa.us/pc/services/arts/artsedu.htm

FundsNet - fundraising resources: http://www.fundsnetservices.com/arts01.htm

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