Deadline: 22-Oct-21
The Miller Foundation has announced the applications for Individual Artist Relief Grant Program to provide support to Oregon artists who are experiencing financial hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic and wildfires due to cancellations of exhibitions, performances, rehearsals, or other activities with a stipend, events, teaching opportunities, book signings, or other professional presentation opportunities.
Funding Information
- Any applicant organization must have minimum annual operating CASH expenses of $25,000, which means in-kind expenses are not included in the $25,000 minimum.
Eligibility Criteria
- The fiscal sponsor must be based in Oregon, with proven financial management success
- The fiscal sponsor’s mission must align closely with the proposed sponsored work
- The project is on a trajectory to become its own 501(c)(3) OR project leaders have proven experience related to the proposed work
- The sponsored organization or project can demonstrate community need and support for the proposed work
- Submission of a fiscal sponsorship agreement signed by fiscal sponsor’s board chair and executive director, as well as the sponsored organization’s leader
- A fiscal sponsor may apply for a Miller Foundation grant for their own organization’s work, in addition to applying as a fiscal sponsor of other projects.
Exclusions
- Multi-year requests for organizations with annual budgets under $500,000
- Museums whose primary focus is not art (except for culturally specific museums)
- Art therapy/arts programming in therapeutic settings
- Arts programming in correctional settings
- Scholarships or tickets to performances
- Historical societies
- After-school arts enrichment programs
- Requests from individual schools or classrooms for in-school arts projects or programs (arts education courses, assemblies, school trips to performances, school clubs, art materials, or musical instruments)
- Recreational camps and summer programs
- Festivals, either single-focus or culturally specific, with the exception of festivals where the primary focus is art (film, music, visual art, literary arts, etc.).
For more information, visit https://www.millerfound.org/