Deadline: 31 July 2019
The Effing Foundation has announced a Grant Program For artists and educators whose work centers on human sexuality, finding financial support can be extremely difficult.
The Effing Foundation promotes sexuality education and artistic expression of sexuality by making grants to #ownvoices organizations, groups, and projects that are run by women (cisgender and transgender), people who are members of gender/(a)sexuality/relationship minorities, people of color, people of size, neurodiverse people, and/or people with disabilities (including mental illness, chronic illness, and/or other physical disabilities).
Special Topics (2019-2020)
New for the 2019-2020 grant cycle, applicants’ll be able to indicate whether their submission fits into one of a set of Special Topics.
- Intimate partner violence and/or sexual violence (IPV/SV): This includes (but is not limited to) submissions that provide support, resources, or community by survivors for survivors.
- Financial accessibility: This includes (but is not limited to) submissions that target privileged folks to educate them/offer solutions for them to execute or submissions that target marginalized folks to offer them possible solutions, submitted by economically disenfranchised people.
- Asexuality: This includes (but is not limited to) submissions that provide support, resources, or community by asexual-spectrum folks for asexual-spectrum folks; submissions that may help educate the general public about asexuality; or submissions that facilitate or showcase the self-expression of asexual people with respect to their asexualities.
- Intersex people and their (a)sexualities: This includes (but is not limited to) submissions that may help educate the general public about intersex people and their (a)sexualities or submissions that facilitate or showcase the self-expression of intersex people with respect to their (a)sexualities.
- Neurodiverse people and their (a)sexualities: This includes (but is not limited to) submissions that may help educate the general public about neurodiverse people and their (a)sexualities or submissions that facilitate or showcase the self-expression of neurodiverse people with respect to their (a)sexualities.
- Religion/spirituality and sex-positivity: This includes (but is not limited to) submissions that provide support, resources, or community by sex-positive religious/spiritual people for religious/spiritual people; or submissions that help to educate the general public about sex-positivity and religious/spiritual tradition.
Funding Information
The Foundation expect to give out around 12 to 14 grants worth a total of about $60,000. Most grants awarded are for $2,500 or $5,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Unfortunately, at this time the Foundation is unable to accept submissions from individuals or groups located entirely outside the United States. Aside from that: anyone is welcome to apply, regardless of identity or background.
- To facilitate greater equity in grantmaking, the Foundation absolutely does not require applicants to have any affiliation with a 501(c)(3) organization.
- Grantees who are with a 501(c)(3) organization or who have a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor are not required to sign a fiscal sponsorship agreement and does not participate in foundation’s financial oversight process.
How to Apply
Anyone who is interested in applying for an Effing Foundation grant needs to complete an online survey via given website.
For more information, please visit https://www.effing.org/grants