Deadline: 31-Aug-20
Headlands Center for the Arts is currently seeking applications for the Community Rapid Response Fund 2020.
Headlands Center for the Arts seeks to support in-progress, community-based projects led by artists. The organization especially wishes to support work that is developed in partnership between artists and Bay Area businesses, organizations, or others that focus on one or more of the following:
- Health, safety, and risk management for workers and neighbors
- Reopening and recovery of local businesses
- Preservation of legacy/historic community resources
- Social/civic justice movements
Goals
The purpose of Headlands’ support is to provide rapid funding to help such work continue.
Funding Information
- Headlands will support a limited number of projects with $1000 each, with the total number of projects funded dependent on the number of eligible projects submitted.
- Funding is to be disbursed early September, 2020.
Evaluation Criteria
Preference given to projects:
- Led by Black, Indigenous, and/or Artists of Color.
- Working within vulnerable communities, such as, but not limited to, communities of: compromised immunity, color, trans/queer identities.
- That will be significantly impacted by the funding received.
Requirements
Letters should include the following:
- Name/Description of project
- Names of community partners
- Stage of project
- Bios of project leads
- Up to three images, if applicable to the project
Eligibility Criteria
- Projects must be Bay Area-based (defined as within Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma Counties).
- Projects must be in-progress.
- Projects must be at least in part artist-led.
- Projects must focus on one or more of the subject areas described above.
For more information, visit http://www.headlands.org/program/community-rapid-response-fund/