June 2024 Funding Opportunities for Entrepreneurs, Filmmakers, Artists, Writers and More
Creative funding opportunities to get you closer to your goals!
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 (110) grants for creatives totaling approximately $2,247,100. Plus, there are still over 100 grants with May deadlines, too. Click here for the May 2024 grants list.
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Helpful Tip: Our newsletter is chronologically ordered from June 1st to June 30th. We’ve numbered opportunities below so you can quickly find what you seek based on your craft or interests.
We will continuously share more June grants as we find them. Be on the lookout for our weekly emails.
In this newsletter, you can find awards for:
Entrepreneurs
Researchers
Poets
Authors/Writers
Musicians
Artists
Visual Artists
Filmmakers
Nonprofits
Black Creators
Television Writers
Home Service Businesses
Newsrooms
Small Businesses
Photographers
Startups
Journalists
[FEATURED GRANTS]
1. Thrive Grants - For Oklahoma Visual Artists
This opportunity will provide funding for collaborative artist-led projects across Oklahoma that are open and accessible to the public. The funded projects are ambitious, impactful, innovative, and community-driven visual arts projects. The grants prioritize artist projects that create new collaborations, connections, and partnerships. Grants range from $5,000 to $10,000.
Deadline: June 1, 2024
2. The Chamberlain Award Residency - For Social Practice Artists
This is a fully sponsored artist residency with a $10,000 prize to support an artist in social practice. This award supports artists employing non-traditional media to engage creatively with social concerns of the day.
Entry Fee: $25
Deadline: June 5, 2024
3. [NEW] Immerse Impact - For Entrepreneurs
This is an intensive 8—to 10–week pre-accelerator that equips underrepresented founders to create fully functioning MVPs on Bubble. It’s completely funded, so you can focus on making your ideas a reality. This cohort targets social impact startups. Whether you have a registered non-profit or a budding business idea, they want to help support those aiming to enact positive change in their communities and worldwide. $5,000 and one year of free Bubble services will be awarded.
Deadline: June 6, 2024
4. About Her Culture Micro Grant - For Caribbean & African Women
This $500 opportunity is open to Caribbean and African women and women of African and Caribbean descent who are entrepreneurs, creatives, and non-profit founders based in their home countries or anywhere around the world. Applicants must demonstrate that their projects are positively impacting culture and community.
Deadline: June 30, 2024
5. [NEW] The Austin Creative Alliance Artists Emergency Fund - For Greater Austin, TX Residents
Cultural sector workers in Greater Austin facing verifiable and immediate housing, food, or healthcare insecurity (including travel, lodging, and procedure expenses related to reproductive care) may apply for up to $1,000 in unrestricted funds.
Deadline: Rolling
6. [NEW] Professional Development and Artistic Planning Grants - For Nonprofits
This opportunity is available 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, performing, traditional, literary, and multidisciplinary organizations in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. This funding can support staff’s travel expenses to conferences, festivals, exhibitions, workshops, and other professional development opportunities. Up to $1,000 in funding will be provided.
Deadline: Rolling
7. [NEW] Musicians Foundation Grant
This one-time financial assistance grant is open to professional musicians across all genres. If you are a professional musician in a specific time of need, please check to see if you might qualify for a financial grant to pay an essential bill. Amount not disclosed.
Deadline: Rolling