FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

http://www.usartsgrants.com/

http://www.fundsforwriters.com/

http://www.fundsnetservices.com/arts2.htm

http://www.cooper.edu/admin/career_services/fellowships.html

 

A Room of Her Own Foundation
Offers the annual Gift of Freedom award (up to $50,000) to recognize and support creative women and their diverse artistic expressions—the written arts (fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry) as well as the visual arts (painting, sculpture and photography).
http://www.aroomofherownfoundation.org/

Academy Fellowship
$25,000 fellowship awarded to one poet of distinguished achievement each year. Fellows are elected each summer by majority vote of the Academy's Board of Chancellors. No applications are accepted.
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/106

Arts & Science Council
http://www.artsandscience.org/index.asp?fuseaction=GrantsServices.GrantPrograms

Astraea Foundation
Lesbian Writers Fund award
http://www.astraeafoundation.org/

Barbara Deming Foundation
Offers individual artist grants twice a year (varying in amount from $500 to $1500) to women from the US and Canada who address feminist issues in their work, including writers (of poetry, plays, and creative nonfiction), musicians, dancers, artists, photographers, and filmmakers.

CEC Artslink
http://www.cecartslink.org

Cintas Foundation
Fellowships for creative artists of Cuban lineage who are currently residing outside of Cuba
http://www.iie.org/cinta

Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts
$5,000 grants for writers and visual artists who live in the central and western counties of New York State
http://www.saltonstall.org/

Guggenheim Foundation
http://www.gf.org/

Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship Award
Fellowship awards in the amount of $7,000 offered in 12 disciplines. Awards in poetry offered every other year.
http://www.state.il.us/agency/iac/brochure.htm

Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artist Program Grant
Grants available for up to $1,000.
http://www.in.gov/arts/grants/program_iap.html

Jerome Foundation
Grants available to residents of Minnesota and New York
http://www.jeromefdn.org

John Ringling Fund Individual Artist Fellowship
Grants for artists residing or working in Sarasota County, Florida
http://www.sarasota-arts.org/ringling_artist_grant.cfm

LEF Foundation
LEF New England General Fund
http://www.lef-foundation.org

Lannan Foundation
Lannan Literary Fellowship for writers of distinctive literary merit who demonstrate potential for continued outstanding work.
http://www.lannan.org/lf/lit/awards-and-fellowships/

Library of Congress
Witter Bynner Fellowships
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/prize-fellow.html#bynner

Lyndhurst Foundation
http://www.lyndhurstfoundation.org/

MacArthur Foundation
http://www.macfound.org/

National Endowment for the Arts
Offers Literature Fellowships in the amount of $20,000 to published creative writers. Fellowships available for prose writers in even-numbered years; fellowships available for poets in odd-numbered years.
http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/Lit.html

Poetry Foundation
$15,000 grant for creative writing students. To be eligible, a student must not have received an advanced degree before the end of the year in which the Fellowship is given, and must be 30 years old or younger at that time.
http://www.poetrymagazine.org/about/prizes.html

Puffin Foundation
Grants up to $2,500 for emerging artists in the fields of art, music, theater, dance, photography, and literature whose works due to their genre and/or social philosophy might have difficulty being aired
http://www.puffinfoundation.org/

Radcliffe Institute
http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/index.php

Rona Jaffe Foundation
Grants of $10,000 are given to women writers of exceptional talent in the early stages of their writing careers.
http://www.ronajaffe.com/awards

Tanne Foundation
http://www.tannefoundation.org/

Whiting Foundation
http://www.whitingfoundation.org/