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Geographically Targeted Funders for Theatre

Florida
Kentucky
Minnesota
New England/Boston
New York
Philadelphia, PA
San Francisco/Bay Area
Washington, DC

Woman's Exchange, Inc. of Sarasota

Support to organizations and individuals involved in theater and the performing arts located in the Sarasota and Manatee counties, Florida.

Woman's Exchange Inc.
539 S. Orange Ave.  
Sarasota, FL   34236-7501
Phone: (941) 955-7859, Ext. 400
Email: info@WomansExchange.com
Website: www.womansexchange.org

Kentucky Foundation for Women

Promotes positive social change by supporting varied feminist expression in the arts in Kentucky. Grant awards range from $1,000 to $7,500

Kentucky Foundation for Women
1215 Heyburn Bldg.  
332 W. Broadway  
Louisville, KY   40202
Phone : (502) 562-0045
Fax: (502) 561-0420
Email: webmaster@kfw.org  
Website: www.kfw.org

Bush Foundation Artist Fellowships

Provides artists with significant financial support that enables them to further their work and their contribution to their communities. Fellows may decide to take time for solitary work or reflection, engage in collaborative community projects, embark on travel or research, or pursue any other activity that contributes to their lives as artists. Applicants must be residents of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, or one of the 26 counties of northwestern Wisconsin.

Bush Foundation
332 Minnesota Street, East 900
St. Paul, MN 55101
Phone: (651) 227-0891
Fax: (651) 297-6485
Email: info@bushfoundation.org
Website: www.bushfoundation.org

LEF Foundation

LEF New England's Contemporary Fund supports innovative work of high creative merit in all contemporary art disciplines, excluding film and video. Application to the General Fund is open to both nonprofit organizations and to individuals applying through a fiscal agent. New England only.

LEF New England
Post Office Box 382066
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02238
Phone: (617) 492-5333
Fax: (617) 868-5603
Email: kathryn@lef-foundation.org
Website: www.lef-foundation.org/main.htm

New England Foundation for the Arts

The Fund for the Arts awards grants to Boston-based artists, pairing the artist with a nonprofit community organization to create public artworks of lasting impact in the Greater Boston area.

Expeditions funds the development and presentation of cross-disciplinary touring projects for New England communities. Grants are made to New England-based nonprofit organizations to support planning or touring of projects with performing, literary, and/or visual arts components.

New England States Touring (NEST) provides support to New England-based nonprofit organizations for performances, readings, and related community activities by artists on the New England States Touring roster.

Presenter Travel Fund provides monetary assistance to arts programmers or curatorial staff in New England so that they may investigate new or unfamiliar work outside of their home community. Applicants may apply for funding to help cover the expense of attending festivals, showcases, conferences, or other cultural events.

Art and Community Landscapes addresses local and regional environmental concerns by funding site-specific art projects and artist residencies. Artists receive grants to work in pre-selected regions across the United States.

New England Foundation for the Arts
145 Tremont Street, 7th Floor
Boston, MA 02111
Phone/TTY: (617) 951-0010
Fax: (617) 951-0016
Email: info@nefa.org
Website: www.nefa.org

Starving Artist Award

Studio 42 and the Starving Artist Award Committee present cash grants for emerging artists living in and around New York City to create a new piece of work. Disciplines rotate.

The Starving Artist Award
Studio 42, Attn: Laura von Holt
208 Thompson Street #3
New York, New York 10012
Phone: (212) 330-7122
Email: starvingartists@studio-42.org (subject line 'SAA Inquiry') 

New York Foundation for the Arts Artists' Fellowships

Artists' Fellowships are $7,000 cash awards made to individual originating artists living and working in the state of New York for unrestricted use. Disciplines alternate each year. SOS Grants of $100 - $600 are available to help artists take advantage of unique opportunities that will significantly benefit their work or career development.

New York Foundation for the Arts
20 Jay St. 7th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone: (212) 366-6900
Email: nyfaafp@nyfa.org
Website: www.nyfa.org

The Leeway Foundation

The Leeway Foundation’s grantmaking programs honor the transformative work of women and trans artists. The Art and Change Grants and the Leeway Transformation Awards fund women and trans people in the Delaware Valley region (Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties) who create art for social change.

The Leeway Foundation
The Philadelphia Building
1315 Walnut St., Suite 832
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone: (215) 545-4078
Fax: (215) 545-4021
Email: info@leeway.org
Website: www.leeway.org

The Pew Charitable Trusts

Pew Fellowships in the Arts are substantial grants to artists in the Philadelphia area.

Pew Charitable Trusts
1 Commerce Sq.  
2005 Market St., Ste. 1700  
Philadelphia, PA   19103-7077
Phone : (215) 575-9050
Fax: (215) 575-4939
Email: info@pewtrusts.com
Website: www.pewtrusts.com 

The Creative Work Fund

The Creative Work Fund invites artists and nonprofit organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area to create new art works through collaborations. It celebrates the role of artists as problem solvers and the making of art as a profound contribution to intellectual inquiry and to the strengthening of communities. Grants range from $10,000 to $35,000.

The Creative Work Fund
One Lombard Street, Suite 305
San Francisco, CA 94111-1130
Phone: (415) 398-4474
Website: www.creativeworkfund.org

The Melton Arts Foundation

Support for individual artists to improve or enhance skills, or to fund public performances, exhibitions, recordings or publications. Awards also in recognition of exceptional literary, artistic, musical or similar past achievement. Washington, DC only.

The Melton Arts Foundation
2086 Hunters Crest Way
Vienna, VA   22181

 

* Many state arts councils also provide fellowships to individual theatre artists. For an alphabetical listing of state and regional councils with links to web sites go to: 

http://www.arts.gov/partner/state/SAA_RAO_list.html

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