November 2024 Funding Opportunities for Entrepreneurs, Authors/Writers, Poets and more!
Grant opportunities to help you reach your Q4 goals!
As November approaches and the weather starts to change, get cozy and prepare for shorter days filled with comfort foods, family, friends, and the beginning of holiday celebrations. It’s a great time to focus on scratching off a few more goals you may have on your list.
Now, let’s get into this newsletter with (99) grants for creatives totaling approximately $956,149. Plus, there are still (129) grants with October deadlines, too. Click here for our October 2024 grants list - we are adding more funding opportunities weekly.
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Grants For Creators is a reader-supported newsletter that shares grants and other funding opportunities for creatives, small business owners, and entrepreneurs within the United States. Readers like you keep this resource afloat and we are grateful for your support.
Grants or “free money with strings attached” exist and can support your creative pursuits. However, finding funding opportunities isn’t easy.
With a simple Google search, you’ll find a lot of expired grants, non-creative focused grants, and funding announcements. You can waste precious time researching with little to show for it.
Our small team of former professional grant administrators turned creative entrepreneurs spend dozens of hours scouring the web every week so you don’t have to.
We believe creators should receive the funding they need to impact their communities and ultimately change the world. We hope our resource makes the research task 10x easier.
While our free subscribers can preview a handful of grants, to access our complete list, join as a paid subscriber today for $10 per month or $100 per year. Give us a try and tap into funding opportunities you may have missed otherwise.
Helpful Tip: Our newsletter is chronologically ordered from November 1st to November 30th. To help you save time, we also call out who grants are for in titles. We will continuously share more November grants as we find them. Be on the lookout for our weekly emails with updates.
Authors/Writers
Artists
Journalists
Entrepreneurs
Photographers
Poets
Nonprofits
Visual Artists
Filmmakers
Researchers
Curators
Cultural Heritage & Diversity
Visionaries
Composers
Career Development
Content Creators
Musicians
Editors
Podcasters
Salon Owners
Arts Organizations
Artificial Intelligence
Crafts
[FEATURED GRANTS]
1. Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers
This opportunity recognizes 12 emerging writers each year for their debut short story published in a literary magazine, journal, or cultural website. It aims to support the launch of their careers as fiction writers. The winning writers each receive a $2,000 cash prize and will be published by Catapult in their annual anthology, Best Debut Short Stories: The PEN America Dau Prize.
Deadline: November 1, 2024
2. The 2025 Brooklyn Arts Fund - For Brooklyn Residents
Brooklyn-based individual artists, collectives, non-profits, and 501c3 organizations will be provided $2,000-$5,000 in funding for competitive projects, demonstrating the ability to identify the Brooklyn community it strives to engage, include a clear, realistic timeline that demonstrates the ability to complete the project to scope within the calendar year 2024, and detail engagement of experienced and appropriate personnel, including appropriateness of nonprofit partner.
Deadline: November 8, 2024
3. [NEW] The 2025 Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Awards - For Kansas City-Based Artists
This opportunity seeks to recognize, encourage, and significantly support Kansas City-based artists creating original, exceptional new work in all genres of performance. Providing artists with financial support, critical recognition, and public exposure, these Awards aim to reward artistic accomplishment to date and to support the continued development of artists' work and careers. Artists must be generative artists—the creators of original new work. Awarded artists will be those who produce innovative and/or experimental work in terms of form, content, process, and/or presentation and demonstrate a sustained commitment to deepening/expanding their work and generative practices. Two recipients will receive an unrestricted cash grant of $10,000.
Deadline: November 11, 2024
4. The Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program - For Nonprofits
This grant program is designed to support Indian tribes and organizations that primarily serve and represent Native Hawaiians in sustaining heritage, culture, and knowledge through exhibitions, educational services and programming, workforce professional development, organizational capacity building, and collections stewardship. Funding will be awarded between $5,000 and $250,000.
Deadline: November 15, 2024
5. [NEW] KOSINIMA Short Film Grant - For Black Femme Filmmakers
This annual $2,500 grant fund is for Black femme filmmakers in Africa and the African diaspora (including Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America). The grant can be used for production (i.e., hiring of crew, securing locations, paying talent) and/or post-production of films only (no development or pre-production expenses).
Deadline: November 19, 2024
6. ServiceScape Short Story Award 2024 - For Authors/Writers
This opportunity is for all short story writers interested in gaining more exposure and a bigger audience for their creative work. Submit a short fiction or non-fiction work of 5,000 words or fewer to be considered. $1,000 will be awarded. The winner will have his or her short story featured in the blog, which reaches thousands of readers per month.
Deadline: November 30, 2024
7. Tour de Force Grant - For DMV Area Artists
This opportunity offers monthly grants to DMV-based artists and educators with ideas to yield educational, social, and/or community-based social impact. They seek proposals for short-term projects or programs and are open to supporting the costs of field trips and classroom supplies. They prioritize proposals featuring immersive and hands-on experiences for groups or the public. Award amounts range between $500 and $2,000 monthly for short-term projects completed in four months or less.
Deadline: Rolling
8. [NEW] The Craft Futures Fund - For Artists in Western North Carolina
This grant program is for emergency relief so that essential resources can be directed to support and care for the artists and community of Western North Carolina (WNC) in the wake of Hurricane Helene. A one-time, unrestricted $500 grant will be provided to a broad range of craft-based artists, makers, creative manufacturers, and culture bearers in WNC.
Deadline: Rolling
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