Deadline: 18-Sep-23
The Impact Grant is a program created by The Supporting Act Foundation to help underfunded grassroots arts organizations that have a community-driven approach in topics that relate to the use of arts for social change, and are offering any kind of support to emerging artists from underrecognized or marginalized groups.
They are unrestricted, reducing financial uncertainties for these organizations, and enabling them to expand their reach.
This grant program is built on extensive research into the challenges that emerging artists are facing in Europe, and into alternative philanthropic approaches. They learned that reducing financial uncertainty for artist-led organizations is a key factor in achieving long-term and systemic change in the arts. It is also a way of creating conditions for a political, cultural, and economic power shift, helping build stronger communities and achieve positive impacts across the creative ecosystem.
Purpose
To help cover general operational costs and any other costs considered critical to successfully developing activities
Funding Information
6 unrestricted two-year grants of €25,000- per year, totalling €50,000- per organization
Eligibility Criteria
- Before preparing your application, please take care to check that your organization meets the following criteria. If selected for a grant, they will request documents to validate that the organization you represent is:
- Registered as a non-profit in—or running as a non-profit with a fiscal sponsor registered in—the Netherlands, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain, or Italy between 2018 and 2022
- Able to provide a bank account number in the name of the organization or of a fiscal sponsor in one of the countries listed above.
- Running with annual operating costs not greater than €125,000 / £110,000 in the current financial year (2023)
- Underfunded, which they define as the organization’s annual income in 2022 being less than the annual costs of its operations, which were therefore too reliant on unpaid/underpaid work, and/or on voluntary/in-kind services
- Led by people who self-identify as artist/artists, or who use the arts in their approach
- Able to provide publicly available evidence of running at least one project during 2022 with a community-driven approach to topics related to the use of arts for social change
- This open call is not for individuals, commercial organizations, ongoing projects or project proposals, or current grantees of The Supporting Act Foundation.
For more information, visit The Supporting Act Foundation.