Deadline: 30-Sep-20
The India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) in collaboration with People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) invites applications for an IFA-PARI Creative Grant, under its Archives and Museums programme.
The Archives and Museums programme of IFA has been initiated with a two-fold objective: to provide arts practitioners and researchers with an opportunity to generate new, critical, and creative approaches for public engagement with archives and museum collections. And to energise these spaces as platforms for dialogue and discourse.
About the IFA-PARI Creative Grant: To support arts practitioners across disciplines to engage with the online platform of the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) and contribute to the themes and stories there, in innovative, engaging and original ways. As PARI’s focus is on marginalised communities that otherwise get no mention in mainstream media, proposals that help to bring the spotlight back on these communities will be given preference.
Funding Information
Financial assistance and other support:
- You can request for support up to Rs 2,00,000/-.
- You may budget for an honorarium of Rs 12,000/- per month subject to a limit of Rs 1,44,000/- for the entire duration of the grant. Please note that the total grant amount is inclusive of the honorarium.
- The funds will cover only project-related costs and activities and will not pay for infrastructure costs or equipment purchase.
- Please ensure that each budget category pertains to a specific item of project-related expenditure.
- Please budget for an accountant’s fee of up to Rs 3,000/- only.
Eligibility Criteria
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) makes grants to individuals and organisations under its various programmes. The criteria for eligibility to apply under these programmes are as follows:
- Only Indian nationals or persons living in India for more than five consecutive years
- Organisations registered in India as a society, trust, foundation, association of persons, section 8B not-for-profit company or any other not-for-profit entity
- Foreign nationals can be part of a team, but funds cannot pay for their expenses
- Foreign nationals cannot be the Principal Investigator/Grantee in case a Grant made to a not-for-profit registered in India
- Eligibility of PIO (Persons of Indian Origin) and OCI (Overseas Citizen of India) Card Holders will be decided on a case to case basis in accordance with the law as and when the need arises
- Persons who have a past history of financial delinquency with IFA are not eligible
- Persons who have failed to deposit at IFA agreed deliverables from an earlier IFA grant are not eligible
- Persons who have previously received a letter from IFA disallowing them from applying in the future for any reason are not eligible
- More than one individual can apply for a grant if they have a joint account. If they do not, then only one among them should apply with the others as collaborators
Application Process
Your application must include:
- A proposal briefly describing your intended project which should include your vision, approach, methodology, timeline and possible outcomes of the grant.
- Detailed budget.
- Your curriculum vitae with details of your portfolio/ projects you have worked on earlier. Please send them links and not attachments.
For more information, visit https://indiaifa.org/whats-new/request-proposals-ifa-pari-creative-grant-archives-and-museums-deadline-september-30-2020
