Deadline: 10-May-24
The National Book Foundation is pleased to offer a special Capacity-Building Grant Program to support projects that build organizational capacity.
“Capacity building” as defined by the National Council of Nonprofits, is “whatever is needed to bring a nonprofit to the next level of operational, programmatic, financial, or organizational maturity, so it may more effectively and efficiently advance its mission into the future. Capacity building is not a one-time effort to improve short-term effectiveness, but a continuous improvement strategy toward the creation of a sustainable and effective organization.”
Funding Information
- Capacity-Building Grant Program will award one-year grants of $5,000 or $10,000 to support capacity-building initiatives.
Who can apply?
- Applicants must be nonprofit literary magazines and/or presses based in the United States or U.S. Territories.
- Applicants must have 501(c)3 status or have a fiscal sponsor.
- Applicants must primarily publish literary works (over 50% of work published must be fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama, and/or literary reviews).
- Applicants that primarily publish children’s literature, children’s writing are not eligible.
- Self-publishers (over 50% of content published by authors on staff) and “hybrid” publishers (in which authors pay for part or all of publication costs) are not eligible.
- Applicants must have published at least one title or issue within the past 18 months.
For more information, visit National Book Foundation.









































