Deadline: 16 October 2017
The Graham F. Smith Peace Foundation is seeking applications for the 2017 Annual Peace Grant. Applications are invited from individuals and community organizations within Australia for arts projects that address the aims of the Peace Foundation – promoting peace, social justice, and care for the environment.
The Graham F. Smith Peace Foundation is a grassroots non-profit organization established in 1989 to promote peace through literature, music, performing arts, visual arts, craft, design, film, video, television, radio, community arts, Aboriginal arts and movable cultural heritage that relate to human rights, social justice and environmental sustainability.
Funding Information
The Peace Foundation is offering one major grant of $10,000.
Focus Areas
- Promote or educate the public on peace and justice at family, community and international level;
- Promote and educate the public on the reduction of injustice, racial tension, oppression and discrimination;
- Increase the understanding and cooperation between political, racial and ethnic groups;
- Support the rights of indigenous peoples to economic self-determination;
- Promote and educate the public on the care of the environment;
- Support oppressed people to control the environment for their daily needs;
- Promote and educate the public on ecological sustainable development.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications will be accepted from individuals and community organizations within Australia that propose art projects that can demonstrate:
- Aims compatible with the Peace Foundation’s vision – ‘Working for Peace through the Arts’,
- Accord with one or more of the criteria listed above;
- That funds will be used to support artists to create new work
- and may also:
- Have the potential to touch many people – not only preach to the converted;
- The process of the project be equally as important as the outcome;
- Include the possibility of working collaboratively with other individuals/groups/organizations;
- Include an education component;
- Involve a process of documentation.
How to Apply
Applicants can download the application kit via given website.
Eligible Country: Australia
For more information, please visit 2017 Annual Peace Grant.