Deadline: 9-Jun-22
The Wallace Foundation is inviting arts service organizations serving and prioritizing to propose research projects that answer important questions related to the arts communities they serve.
The Wallace Foundation’s five-year initiative intended to support arts organizations rooted in communities of color as they explore strategies for achieving organizational resilience (ability to adapt and thrive) while retaining their relevance (mattering to their communities).
Types of Studies
Proposed studies should address key issues of importance to the work of the arts service organization while also providing important learnings about the field of arts organizations founded by, with, and for communities of color. The Foundation invites arts service organizations to submit a proposal for one of two types of studies:
- A research planning and implementation grant : which includes a planning period to work with a research partner followed by the subsequent execution of a research project (up to $250,000).
- A research expansion grant: which proposes to scale up or refine an existing robust research design and implement an expanded research project (up to $500,000).
Study Purpose
They invite arts service organizations and their research partners to identify and describe what issue(s) they want to address and questions they want to answer through their research project.
Topics of research projects could include, but are in no way limited to:
- Structural and contextual features that impact organizations, associations, networks, and collectives founded by and for artists and arts communities of color
- Histories and strategies of arts service organizations rooted in communities of color, and their role in the arts ecosystem
- Indigenous organizational models and arts ecologies
- Cooperative fundraising, organizing, and economic models used by arts organizations of color
- Forms of and approaches to assessment of organizational impact by arts organizations of color
- Cross-sectoral work being conducted by arts organizations of color, such as organizational strategies and collaborati ons intersecting with the fields of education, community development, and public health.
Eligibility Criteria
- Arts service organizations responding to this request for proposals should demonstrate in their proposal, through mission, organizational leadership, and communities served, an organizational commitment to arts communities of color.
- Research partners should demonstrate the following qualifications:
- Experience studying arts organizations focused on presenting or advancing art work and practices from communities or community-based organizations of color
- Research and analytical skills appropriate to the project and proposed research designs
- History of producing publications and/or other dissemination material relevant to the research design and focus
- Demonstrated experience working with various stakeholders on issues of equity and culture
- Experience working with arts organization directors and leaders
- Excellent project management, writing, publication, and communication skills.
For more information, visit https://www.wallacefoundation.org/about-wallace/pages/rfp-field-studies-by-arts-service-organizations-rooted-in-communities-of-color.aspx