Deadline: 12-Mar-21
The Ms. Foundation for Women is accepting request for proposals for Asian Women Giving Circle (AWGC) Program to build women’s collective power in the U.S. to advance equity and justice for all.
Asian Women Giving Circle (AWGC) believes culture is an essential part of any strategy for social change. They support Asian American women-led organizations and individual artists in NYC who are using arts and culture to:
- Bring about progressive social transformation,
- Raise awareness and catalyze action around critical issues that affect Asian American women, girls and families, and
- Highlight and promote women’s central role as leaders, creators, developers and managers of these projects.
Goals
Their goals are to:
- Channel more resources into their local communities;
- Engage more people to invest in creative projects by and for their communities;
- Shine an authentic spotlight on their experiences and stories;
- Promote progressive social change;
- Raise the visibility of Asian American women doing philanthropic work.
Funding Information
- In this grants cycle, they anticipate that 5-8 project grants will be awarded, contingent on available funding.
- The maximum grant amount is $15,000.
Eligibility Criteria
This RFP is open to both 501(c)(3) organizations and individual artists:
- Artists and collectives that are not 501(c)(3)s must apply under a fiscal sponsor that is a 501(c)(3) organization, which they must list on their application as the applying organization.
- NOTE: Failure to provide 501(c)(3) documentation or to provide a fiscal sponsor with the same will automatically disqualify the application,
- All artistic disciplines will be considered, including cross-disciplinary work;
- Projects must incorporate the arts in an integral way.
- Proposals must make a clear case for the theory of social justice change envisioned by the project, based on the applicants’ own criteria for defining and measuring the impact,
- Projects must highlight women’s central role in its content and/or be led by Asian women in central leadership roles.
- Projects must demonstrate a commitment to NYC-based communities.
- Grants must be applied to specific projects and cannot support the organization’s ongoing programs, operations, capital or endowments.
- Applicants can be at any stage in their careers but should have a track record of committed work that demonstrates their capacity to complete the proposed project and manage the funds requested.
For more information, visit https://forwomen.org/grants-2/awgc-2021-rfp/