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Grant Money, Fellowships, and Foundations that Fund Artists
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Various philanthropic agencies offer funding in support of the arts, whether in the form of awards for completed work, residencies during which artists and writers can make progress on particular projects, internships, apprenticeships, workshops, or funds for travel or exhibition. The great majority of the following grants, fellowships, and awards selected do not adhere to a regional or jurisdictional limitation, making them available to all who wish to apply. The directory below, Organizations Offering Grant Money, highlights a variety of programs in the visual arts, creative writing and performing arts that award money, especially to individuals.

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Oranizations Offering Grant Money

Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
380 West Broadway
New York, NY 10012
Phone: 212-226-0581
Fax:  212-226-0584
Offers grants to individual visual artists through two programs: an annual Individual Support Grant and a separate program to assist visual artists in cases of catastrophic events through an Emergency Grant program.
Email: sross@gottliebfoundation.org
http://www.gottliebfoundation.org/

AFI's Directing Workshop for Women
The American Film Institute
The John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts
Washington, D.C. 20566
Phone: 202-833-AFIT (2348)
Fax 202-659-1970
or
2021 North Western Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Phone: 323-856-7600
Fax: 323-467-4578
Focuses on the development and production of a short narrative project. Participants enter the program with a short screenplay, which they develop for three weeks within the Workshop.
Email: info@afi.com
http://www.afi.com/education//dww/

American Institute of Indian Studies
1130 East 59 Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Fellowships are available to accomplished practitioners of the performing arts of India and creative artists who demonstrate that study in India would enhance their skills, develop their capabilities to teach or perform in the U.S., enhance American involvement with India’s artistic traditions, and strengthen their links with peers in India.
Email:  aiis@uchicago.edu
http://www.indiastudies.org

Arts International
251 Park Avenue South, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10010-7302
Phone: 212-674-9744
Development of Advised Funds and Regranting Programs that provide support to artists and arts organizations engaged in international work.
Email: info@artsinternational.org
http://www.artsinternational.org/

Asian Cultural Council
437 Madison Avenue, 37th Floor
New York, New York 10022-7001
Phone: 212-812-4300
Fax: 212-812-4299
Fellowships are awarded with unrestricted grant funds, primarily to support artists and specialists from East and Southeast Asia pursuing research, training, and creative programs in the United States. Offices also in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Taipei.
Email: acc@accny.org
http://www.asianculturalcouncil.org

Association of Performing Arts Presenters
1112 16th Street NW
Suite 400
Washington DC, 20036
Phone: 202-833-2787
Fax: 202-833-1543
Provides funding for presenters to build collaborative audience development projects.
Email: programs@artspresenters.org or artspres@artspresenters.org
http://www.artspresenters.org/

Black Rock Arts Foundation
1900 3 Street, 2 Floor
San Francisco, CA 94107
Phone: 415-626-1248
The mission is to support and promote community-based interactive art that generates social participation and connects people to one another in a larger communal context.
Email: info@blackrockarts.org
http://www.blackrockarts.org/

Canadian Art Directory
11 Baseline Road East
PO Box 43028
London, Ontario
N6C6A2
An online Canadian Art Directory featuring Artists and the Arts Community in Canada in most major disciplines.
Email: info@canadaart.info
http://www.canadaart.info

CEC International Partners 
12 West 31st Street, Suite 400
New York, NY 10001-4415
Phone: 212-643-1985
Fax: 212-643-1996
An international arts exchange organization whose ArtsLink program supports exchange between artists and arts organizations in the United States and in Central/Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia through a competitive annual selection process.
Email: cecny@cecip.org or artslink@cecip.org
http://www.cecip.org/

Center for Documentary Studies Film Making Award
1317 W. Pettigrew Street
Durham, NC 27707
Phone: 919-660-3663
Fax: 919-681-7600
Various awards created to honor and support documentary artists whose works are a potential  catalysts for education and change.
Email: llm@duke.edu
http://cds.aas.duke.edu/index.html

Centrum
P.O. Box 1158
Port Townsend, WA 98368-0958
Phone: 360-385-310
Fax: 360-385-2470
Founded in 1973 by the Washington State Arts Commission, the State Parks and Recreation Commission and the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction as a statewide center for arts and creativity.
Email: info@centrum.org
http://www.centrum.org

Charles A. Lindbergh Fund
2150 Third Avenue North, Suite 310
Anoka, MN 55303-2200
Phone: 763-576-1596
Awards up to a total of $10,580 per year to individuals whose individual initiative and work in a wide spectrum of disciplines furthers the Lindberghs' vision of a balance between the advance of technology and the preservation of the  natural/human environment.
Email: info@lindberghfoundation.org
http: www.lindberghfoundation.org

Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project
Chesterfield Motion Picture Company
PMB 544, 1158 26th Street
Santa Monica, California 90403
Phone: 213-683-3977
The Writer’s Film Project (WFP) offers fiction, theater, and film writers the opportunity to begin a career in screenwriting. Based at Paramount Pictures, was originated with the support of Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment.
Email: info@chesterfield-co.com
http://www.chesterfield-co.com/html/wfp.html

Corporation for Public Broadcasting
401 Ninth Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20004
Phone: 800-272-2190
A private, non-profit corporation created by Congress in 1967. The Corporation is not a government agency. It promotes public telecommunications services (television, radio, and online) for the American people.
Email: comments@cpb.org
http://www.cpb.org

Creative Capital Foundation
65 Bleeker Street, 7 Fl.
New York, NY 10012
Phone: 212-598-9900
The foundation seeks funding requests for artist projects in either media, performing, visual arts, or in emerging fields that would include all forms of digital work. Disciplines are funded in alternate grant cycles.
Email: info@creative-capital.org
http: //www.creative-capital.org/

culturalcontact: US-Mexico Foundation for Culture
Londres 16, 3 Floor
Colonia Juarez, Mexico D.F.
Phone: 52-55 5535-6735, 5592-5386
Fax: 52-55 5566-8071
To support the creation, preservation and promotion of the cultural heritage of the United States and Mexico, while deepening the understanding and appreciation of each culture with the other.
Email: contacto@contactocultural.org
http://www.fidemexusa.org.mx

Ford Foundation
320 East 43rd Street
New York, NY 10017 USA
Phone: 212-573-5000
Fax: 212-351-3677
The Media, and Arts and Culture unit seeks to strengthen the arts and media as important contributors to the communities and societies in which they function.
Email: office-communications@fordfound.org or office-secretary@fordfound.org
http://www.fordfound.org/program/media.cfm

The Foundation Center
79 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10003-3076
Phone: 212-620-4230 or 800-424-9836
Fax: 212-807-3677
The Foundation Center is an independent national service organization established by foundations in 1956. Their mission is to support and improve institutional philanthropy by maintaining a comprehensive and up-to-date database on foundations and corporate giving, and numerous other services.
Email: library@fdncenter.org
http://www.fdncenter.org/

Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center
596 Broadway, Suite 602
New York, NY 10012
Phone: 212-431-1130
Fax: 212-431-7693
A non-for-profit organization founded in 1977 to cultivate artistic talent using electronic technologies. Harvestworks’ programs provide the artist with production studios, grant opportunities, education, communal lab practice and distribution.
Email: info@harvestworks.org
http://www.harvestworks.org/

Humana Festival of New American Plays
Send Submissions or Synopses To:
New Play Program
Attn: Amy Wegener
Actors Theatre of Louisville
316 West Main Street
Louisville, KY 40202-4218
Phone: 502-584-1265
Full-length and one-act plays from literary agents as well as scripts that are accompanied by a letter of recommendation from the artistic director or literary manager at a professional theatre or playwrights are accepted throughout the year.
Email: awegener@actorstheatre.org
http://www.actorstheatre.org/index.htm

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20566
Phone: 202-416-8000
The Vilar Institute for Arts Management strives to impart hands-on arts management experience to participants in the fellowship and internship programs.
Email:
http://www.kennedy-center.org

Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation
P.O. Box 672
Prince St. Station
New York, NY 10012
Phone: 212-529-0814
Fax: 212-253-7604
To provide encouragement and financial assistance to composers, lyricists and bookwriters as well as nonprofit producing companies with a commitment to supporting the work of new musical theatre projects and musical theatre artists.
Email: jlpaf@aol.com
http://www.jlpaf.org/index.html

The MacDowell Colony
163 East 81st Street
New York, New York 10028
Phone: 212-535-9690
Fax: 212-737-3803
or
100 High Street
Peterborough, New Hampshire 03458
Phone: 603-924-3886
Fax: 603-924-9142
Writers, visual artists, composers, filmmakers, interdisciplinary artists, and architects from everywhere are awarded fellowships that grant exclusive use of a studio and room and board for up to eight weeks.
Email: info@macdowellcolony.org or admissions@macdowellcolony.org
http://www.macdowellcolony.org

National Endowment for the Arts
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20506
Phone 202-682-5400
Includes information on visual and performing arts grant listings. A new online resource of Federal funding available for the arts makes it easy to search applications and grant forms for professional and educational organizations as well as for individual artists.
Email: webmgr@arts.endow.gov
http://arts.endow.gov/

UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists
Communication and Information Sector
7, place de Fontenoy
75352 Paris 07 SP
France
Phone: + 33.1.45.68.43.20
Fax: + 33.1.45.68.55.83
Created in 1994 to open new prospects of career to artists in all disciplines by offering them the opportunity to continue their training in specialized institutions. This programme is under the aegis of the International Fund for the Promotion of Culture (IFPC) of UNESCO.
Email: ci.webmaster@unesco.org or ci@unesco.org
http://www.unesco.org/

U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202-0498
Phone: 800-872-5327
The Department is comprised of funding opportunities, student financial assistance, research and statistics, news and events, programs and services, publications and products, Education Offices and budget, education job openings and links to other sites.
Email: customerservice@inet.ed.gov
http://www.ed.gov/index.jsp

Virginia Center for Creative Arts
Mt. San Angelo, Box VCCA
Sweet Briar, VA 24595
Phone: 804-946-7236
Fax: 804-946-7239
Provides a supportive environment for visual artists, writers, and composers to pursue their creative work. A residential retreat in pastoral surroundings, the VCCA serves artists of all cultural and economic backgrounds.
Email: vcca@vcca.com
http://www.vcca.com/

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
2121 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Phone: 650-234-4500
Fax: 650-234-4501
A private foundation whose performing arts grant program entertains applications from professional dance, music, opera/musical theater, and theater companies as well as organizations that present the performing arts. The Foundation also supports arts councils that serve San Francisco Bay Area communities and service organizations that assist performing arts organizations in all disciplines.
Email: webmaster@hewlett.org
http://www.hewlett.org/

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
1645 Trap Road
Vienna, Virginia 22182
Phone: 703-255-1900
Wolf Trap Filene and Josie A. Bass Career Development Internship Programs are funded in part by the Lincoln and Therese Filene Foundation and an anonymous donor, respectively. They provide meaningful hands-on training and experience in the areas of arts administration, education, and technical theater.
Email: wolftrap@wolftrap.org
http://www.wolf-trap.org