Category: Grant

Arts Writers Grant Program

Deadline: May 19, 2021 8:59 pm

Source: The Andy Warhol Foundation / Creative Capital

Description: The Arts Writers grant supports both emerging and established writers who are writing about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories–articles, books, and short-form writing–these grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. Program also supports art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods or experiments with literary styles. “Contemporary visual art” refers to visual art made since World War II. Projects on post-WWII work in adjacent fields–architecture, dance, film, media, music, performance, sound, etc.–will only be considered if they directly and significantly engage the discourse and concerns of contemporary visual art.

Award: $15,000-50,000

Eligibility: To be eligible, an arts writer must be an individual applying for a project about contemporary visual art; an art historian, artist, critic, curator, journalist, or a writer in an outside field who is strongly engaged with the contemporary visual arts; a U.S. citizen, permanent U.S. resident, or a holder of an O-1 visa; at least 25 years old; a published author (specific publication requirements vary for each project type).

Deadline: Applications accepted from April 14 to 11:59 pm EST, May 19, 2021.

External Grant Heritage Conservation Landscape Architecture Urbanism

COVID-19 Science Fund

Deadline: March 31, 2021 8:59 pm

Source: National Geographic Society

Description: In response to worldwide disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Geographic Society is providing funding for projects focused on how humanity and the natural world have reacted to and are living through the unparalleled circumstances created by COVID-19 in order to better understand how this pandemic—or the threat of another—will shape our world for years to come. Proposed projects should seek to better understand and/or provide solutions to the situations created or magnified by the pandemic, thereby helping us to understand and address the challenges and changes of living in a COVID-19 world. This fund invites research, conservation, and technology projects on the following two topics:

Community-based and inclusive wildlife and cultural heritage site conservation.
Impacts of tourism changes on cultural heritage sites and wildlife.

Below are examples of the types of questions and projects that the Society would like to receive:
How have community and grassroots organizations dedicated to the conservation and protection of wildlife and cultural heritage sites been impacted by COVID-19? How have organizations continued their conservation activities during the pandemic? What types of new models or innovative approaches to conservation are being tried? With people unable to afford to stay in cities, how are rural communities shaped and changed by people returning? Given the ongoing economic crises due to COVID-19, what lessons can be applied post pandemic to support sustainable and just economic recovery in areas with high biodiversity and/or cultural heritage resources? How have changes in global and/or domestic tourism affected wildlife, protected area management, cultural heritage site conservation, and the livelihoods and well-being of nearby communities? See website for more info.

Award: Up to $50,000.

Eligibility: Applicants must be 18 years or older. Only applications that propose activity in the applicant’s country of residence will be considered.

Deadline: Statement of interest accepted through 11:59 pm EDT, March 31, 2021. Applicants will receive decisions on their statement of interest by April 8, 2021. Full applications will be due by 11:59 pm EDT, May 19, 2021.

Architecture Design External Grant Landscape Architecture

Grants for Visual Artists

Deadline: April 30, 2021 12:00 am

Source: Harpo Foundation

Description: Award provides direct support to under-recognized visual artists 21 years or older.

Award: Up to $10,000.

Eligibility: Self-defined, under-recognized visual artists 21 years or older who are U.S. citizens are eligible to apply. Current students are ineligible. Previous recipients of a direct artist grant from Harpo are ineligible.

Deadline: April 30, 2021

All Disciplines External Grant

Movement Infrastructure Fund

Deadline: April 23, 2021 11:59 pm

Source: Solidaire

Description: Supporting work that is led by those most impacted by injustice, the Movement Infrastructure Fund invests in movements that work to dismantle and disrupt extractive, exploitative, and oppressive systems. In 2021, Solidaire is interested in movement infrastructure proposals that support resistance through systems and tools, as well as proposals that build transformative futures through agency and scale. Examples include: starting or expanding a community-owned broadband initiative; building out communications tools or staff to advance narrative or culture change; expanding organizers in rural places; or campaigns for local housing solutions. Examples of movement infrastructure include buildings and land, new incorporations or entities, democratic governance structures, expertise and skill building, system development and sustained people power. Solidaire welcomes participatory research projects that are led by/informed by folks directly impacted and which look to create or invest more deeply in movement infrastructure projects with broad impact.

Award: Grants range from $20,000 to $200,000.

Eligibility: Work should be led by the most directly impacted people working on the front lines. Grant requests may be to support work for 12-24 months or for multi-year support (3-5 years). Organizations or groups must have an organizational budget under $3M. Grants can support C3, C4, LLCs, and other vehicles.

Deadline: 11:59 pm PST, April 23, 2021

Grant Urbanism USC

2021 USC Lusk Center for Real Estate Research Awards

Deadline: April 30, 2021 12:00 am

Source: USC Lusk Center for Real Estate

Description: The USC Lusk Center for Real Estate is pleased to announce the availability of research awards beginning in July 2021. The stipends are to facilitate high-quality research that will eventually be published in the leading scientific journals. The broad topics should be related to real estate and urban issues. The Lusk Center is especially interested in proposals that focus on housing and real estate finance, non-residential real estate, urban entrepreneurship, urban poverty and segregation, neighborhood change, and local taxes and housing regulation. Studies can focus on the U.S. or any other country.

Award: Up to $25,000 per faculty member and $15,000 per postdoc or Ph.D. student.

Eligibility: USC faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, and Ph.D. students are eligible to apply.

Deadline: April 30, 2021

Architecture Competition Design External Grant Landscape Architecture Uncategorized

2021 Abbey Mural Prize

Deadline: April 23, 2021 12:00 am

Source: National Academy of Design

Description: The National Academy of Design invites artists, architects, arts and community-based organizations, and other nonprofits to submit applications for the 2021 Abbey Mural Prize, which awards grants to support the commission of public murals in the United States. Building on a tradition of public murals as instruments of social activism, neighborhood revitalization, and community engagement, the Abbey Mural Prize aims to broaden support and recognition of the vital role that murals play in making public space more open and accessible. Grants will be awarded for the creation or restoration of public murals, especially those that promote accessibility, serve local audiences, and inspire community dialogue. The Academy will hold an Abbey Mural Prize Information Session on March 23, 2021.

Award: Grants typically range from $10,000 to $40,000 USD in minimally restricted support for the production and installation of mural(s) on and within public buildings and on buildings owned by charitable institutions.

Eligibility: Applications are open to all artists, architects, designers, as well as arts and community-based organizations and other nonprofits. Project leads must be eighteen years of age or over. Project proposals must be for sites located within the United States, Tribal Nations, and U.S. territories including American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Projects must be public and have start dates before June 30, 2022.

Deadline: April 23, 2021

External Grant Heritage Conservation

2021 Preservation Technology and Training Grants

Deadline: March 15, 2021 4:00 pm

Source: National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT)

Description: Provides funding for innovative research that develops new technologies or adapts existing technologies to preserve cultural resources. Grant recipients undertake innovative research and produce technical reports which respond to national needs in the field of historic preservation. PTT grants will support the following activities: innovative research that develops new technologies or adapts existing technologies to preserve cultural resources (typically $20,000); specialized workshops or symposia that identify and address national preservation needs (typically $15,000 to $20,000); and how-to videos, mobile applications, podcasts, best practices publications, or webinars that disseminate practical preservation methods or provide better tools for preservation practice (typically $5,000 to $15,000).

Award: $5,000-20,000

Eligibility: Federal agencies, states, tribes, local governments, and non-profit organizations are eligible to apply.

Deadline: 5 pm MT, March 15, 2021

All Disciplines Grant USC

USC Collaboration Fund

Deadline: April 5, 2021 5:00 pm

Source: USC Office of the Provost

Description: Supports research collaborations among faculty and students working on interdisciplinary societally-relevant research topics, such as pandemic-related topics, equity and inclusion, climate change, neuroscience, mindfulness and behavioral science, digital humanities, and climate change, among many others. The aim of these awards is not to fund specific research projects, but rather to support teams of faculty who aim to establish or foster a community of scholars at USC organized around a broad topic of shared interest. Proposals are sought that creatively overcome current pandemic limitations on travel and in-person meetings, proposing new and engaging ways to bring people together with activities that develop the impact of the collaborative group. Proposed activities should establish the foundation for members of the collaborative group to create new research projects as well as contribute to strengthening the individual research programs of its members and others as USC. Encouraged activities include an educational component, providing students an opportunity to not only participate but assist in the design and organization of events. See website for full RFP.

Award: Collaboration Fund Grants provide up to $30,000/year; awards will be made for a three-year period, subject to an annual progress review and activity plan, and continued availability of funding. At the end of three years, collaborations may reapply, on a competitive basis, for an additional three years of funding.

Eligibility: Awards under this program are made through a competitive process, based on proposals submitted by a team of faculty investigators whose primary appointments are in different schools (at least two). The collaboration should engage a large number (normally 10 or more) of participating faculty. In addition to the representation from two schools at USC, team of faculty may include key collaborators from non-USC organizations or institutes with which the group will interact.

Deadline: 5 pm PT, April 5, 2021

Architecture Design External Grant Heritage Conservation History / Theory Landscape Architecture

SPAM Publication Grant

Deadline: March 15, 2021 12:00 am

Source: Society for the Preservation of American Modernists (SPAM)

Description: Through an annual series of Publication Grants, SPAM supports the authorship of articles or books by independent scholars, writers, students, and professionals in the following subject areas: the artistic contributions of the American modernists, and the history of public and private support for the arts in the United States. Publication Grants are intended to encourage non-academics to do original research, and to encourage academics to make their research accessible to the public. SPAM will include the work—published or unpublished—in all SPAM research archives and databases.

Award: Grants average $1,200.

Eligibility: Applications are welcome from all individuals, but applicants with a clear and realistic publication plan will be favored by the selection committee.

Deadline: Applications must be received by March 15.

All Disciplines External Grant

Reimagining Multilateralism

Deadline: March 15, 2021 12:00 am

Source: Carnegie Corporation of New York

Description: From pandemics and climate change, to disruptive technologies and other emerging risks, it is a truism that most of today’s global threats cannot be addressed effectively without collective action. The failure of international responses to COVID-19 is only the most recent and dramatic example of the inability of long-standing cooperative mechanisms and institutions to withstand the pressures of nationalism, protectionism, and broader structural and systemic deficiencies. As the nature of security in the 21st century continues to evolve, there is a need to reimagine existing multilateral approaches to critical transnational challenges.

Carnegie Corporation of New York invites projects that provide insights and practical approaches for addressing one or more of the following questions: How might the system of international institutions be reimagined and/or reinvigorated to better respond to 21st-century security challenges, including those that threaten global health, climate, privacy, and civic well-being? What are the pros/cons/utility of different forms of multilateralism for different purposes (e.g. formal vs. informal, small vs. large, narrow vs. broad, regional vs. global, like-minded vs. mixed, major powers only vs. a broader set of powers)? How might critical, yet underappreciated, flashpoints (geographic, economic, technological, etc.) be managed through multilateral approaches? Could these approaches be applied more broadly? See website for full list.

Award: Grants offered in two categories: up to $200,000 and $200,000-500,000. Projects may run up to 24 months.

Eligibility: U.S.-based think-tanks, university centers, and independent nongovernmental organizations are eligible to apply, though they are strongly encouraged to have international partners. Proposals must be submitted by an organization; individual researchers working on their own projects are not eligible for consideration. Please note that there is one application allowed per center at USC. See website for full eligibility requirements.

Deadline: Initial concept notes due by March 15.