July 2024 Funding Opportunities for Artists, Nonprofits, Filmmakers and More
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🏆 Grant Success Story: How Mike Brown Won $1,500 For a Self-Improvement Podcast
Success leaves clues. As part of our Grant Win Stories series, we are interviewing talented creators in the Grants For Creators community who have won funding opportunities sourced from this newsletter. Today, you’ll hear from Mike Brown, an audio storyteller who secured over $1,500 in grant funding to pursue The Art of Letting Go Podcast.
If you won a grant you found from this newsletter, please let us know! We'd love to feature you in this ongoing series and highlight your work. Email Danielle Desir Corbett at grantsforcreators@gmail.com with the subject line: I won a grant.
Now, let’s jump into this newsletter that currently has (133) grants for creatives totaling approximately $3,748,250. Plus, there are still (110) grants with June deadlines, too. Click here for the June 2024 grants list.
June 2024 Funding Opportunities for Entrepreneurs, Filmmakers, Artists, Writers and More
June paves the way for Summer with warmer weather and longer days, stirring excitement and joy for us all. In celebration of Summer and Pride month (check out our LGBTQIA+ playlist), let’s jump into this newsletter that currently has (90) grants for creatives totaling approximately $1,521,600. Plus, there are still over 100 grants with May deadlines, too. Click here for the
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Helpful Tip: Our newsletter is chronologically ordered from July 1st to July 31st. We’ve numbered opportunities below so you can quickly find what you seek based on your craft or interests.
We will continuously share more July grants as we find them. Be on the lookout for our weekly emails.
In this newsletter, you can find awards for:
Nonprofits
Artists
Filmmakers
Authors/Writers
Choreographers
Gender Justice
Small Businesses
Publishers
Music Business
Salon/Beauty
Entrepreneurs
Poetry
[FEATURED GRANTS]
1. BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Caribbean-American Writer’s Prize
All entrants must be of Caribbean heritage/of Caribbean descent. Work should not have appeared in any nationally distributed publication with a circulation of 5,000 or more. Stories must be original works of fiction. The writer of the winning story will receive a $1,750 cash prize, a Cafe Con Libros gift card, a caché of books courtesy of Akashic Books, an author interview, and a Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival website profile. The Winner will be published in The Brooklyn Rail and will have interview opportunities with US Media houses.
Deadline: July 1, 2024
2. [NEW] The Arttaca Photography Grant 2024
This opportunity is open to photographers from all around the world. This inclusive approach welcomes a diverse range of photographic talents and perspectives. The grant's theme is open, focusing on storytelling or series. Photographers must submit compelling stories or series showcasing their unique photographic vision. The grant will award $1,000 to 3 photographers to support the continuation of an existing project or the initiation of a new photographic endeavor.
Deadline: July 1, 2024
3. [NEW] The Carolyn Bush Poetry Award - For Emerging Writers in NYC
This opportunity aims to support innovative, hybrid, and cross-genre work that contributes to expanding the discourses and practices of poetry. This award is intended for emerging writers residing in New York City. Submissions from female-identifying, genderqueer, non-conforming, non-binary, and trans writers are welcome. The author will publish a book with Wendy’s Subway, receive an honorarium of $1,250, and receive 25 author copies.
Entry Fee: $15
Deadline: July 15, 2024
4. [NEW] Blue Space Emerging Artist Open Call
This opportunity is open to all artists worldwide. All mediums and styles are acceptable. Award winners will be free to use their prize money as they see fit. The number of art pieces submitted and their overall quality will determine the prize amounts awarded. Prizes range from $50 - $1,000.
Deadline: July 16, 2024
5. Teri Rogers Screenwriting Award - For Kansas City Residents
ArtsKC will award one full feature or pilot script with the Teri Rogers Screenwriting Award of $1,000. Scripts, where Kansas City or the region is highlighted as a place and/or that prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion, will be given special consideration. Applicants must live in the five-county Kansas City metropolitan area (Jackson, Clay, and Platte counties in Missouri and Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas).
Deadline: July 23, 2024
6. The Diverse Writers Grant
This $500 award supports speculative fiction writers from underrepresented and underprivileged groups — such as writers of color, women, queer writers, disabled writers, etc. The application link will open on July 1st.
Deadline: July 31, 2024
7. [NEW] Giving Joy Grants - For Women
Through its micro-grants and mentorship program, Giving Joy helps women establish or improve their businesses and initiatives—for their benefit and the benefit of their communities. These are one-time micro-grants of up to $500 for women ages 18 and up from any country worldwide who are eligible to apply.
Deadline: July 31, 2024
8. [NEW] Professional Development and Artistic Planning Grants - For Nonprofits
These grants offer up to $1,000 to support the professional development needs of Southern presenters, programmers, or curators to strengthen program design or increase organizational capacity. This grant program is open to film, visual arts, performing arts, traditional arts, literary arts, and multidisciplinary organizations. Applicants must be based within South Arts' nine-state service area: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, or Tennessee.
Deadline: Rolling
9. [NEW] The Roddenberry Catalyst Fund - For Early-Stage Change Makers
This opportunity awards grants between $2,500 and $15,000 to anyone, anywhere in the world, with small and/or early-stage ideas and projects that address pressing global challenges and need a capital infusion to launch or prove viability. Catalyst awardees are typically piloting a program, venturing into new territory, on the cusp of launching, or pivoting in a new direction.
Deadline: Rolling