Deadline: 24-Feb-23
The Asian Women Giving Circle is now accepting proposals for the 2023 funding cycle!
AWGC believes culture is an essential part of any strategy for social change. AWGC supports organizations led by Asian American women or gender-expansive people and individual artists in NYC who are using arts and culture to:
- Bring about progressive social transformation,
- Raise awareness and catalyze action around critical issues that affect Asian American women, girls, gender-expansive people, and families, and
- Highlight and promote their central role as leaders, creators, developers and managers of these projects.
Funding Information
- In this grants cycle, AWGC anticipates that 6-8 project grants will be awarded, contingent on available funding. The maximum grant amount is $8,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- This RFP is open to both 501(c)(3) organizations and individual artists.
- Artists and collectives that are not 501(c)(3)s must apply under a fiscal sponsor that is a 501(c)(3) organization, which they must list on their application as the applying organization.
- NOTE: Failure to provide 501(c)(3) documentation or to provide a fiscal sponsor with the same will automatically disqualify the application.
- All artistic disciplines will be considered, including cross-disciplinary work.
- Projects must incorporate the arts in an integral way.
- Projects must highlight women’s and gender-expansive people’s leadership and/or central role.
- Projects must demonstrate a commitment to NYC-based communities.
- Grants must be applied to specific projects and cannot support the organization’s ongoing programs, operations, capital or endowments.
- Applicants can be at any stage in their careers but must have a track record of developed work that demonstrates their capacity to complete the proposed project and manage the funds requested.
- Proposals must make a clear case for the theory of social justice change envisioned by the project, based on the applicants’ own criteria for defining and measuring impact.
Review Process
Applications will be reviewed with the following criteria:
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The project is led by AAPI women or gender-expansive people and/or has AAPI women and girls and/or gender-expansive people in central roles in the project’s conceptual framework, design and implementation.
- The arts and social change are related in an integral way.
- Has a clear and persuasive strategy to move hearts and minds toward progressive social change and a strong potential to do so.
- Raises awareness and/or intervene around critical issues affecting AAPI women, girls, and/or gender-expansive people and families, e.g., human rights, bias, injustice, gender-based violence, immigrant rights.
- Demonstrates a deep commitment to NYC-based communities.
- Demonstrates a vision and plan for using the grant funds effectively and for completing the project.
- Demonstrates exceptional creativity, artistically and/or through social intervention.
What they Do Not Fund
- Capital or endowment campaigns.
- Equipment purchases.
- Support to address financial crises or shortfalls.
- Purely personal works of artistic expression with little or no social justice impact.
- Documentation that is primarily of cultural events.
- Performances or personalities that do not provide a social change analysis or social justice focus.
- Student productions or projects associated with a degree program and academic credit.
For more information, visit AWGC.