The Ms. Foundation for Women is requesting proposals for its 2025 Asian Women Giving Circle.
Donor Name: Ms. Foundation for Women
State: New York
City: New York City
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/21/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Asian Women Giving Circle (AWGC) believes culture is an essential part of any strategy for social change. Foundation supports projects led by Asian American women or gender-expansive people in NYC that harness the power of arts and culture to:
- Advance a just, free and safe society
- Raise awareness and catalyze action around critical issues that affect Asian American women, girls, gender-expansive people, and families
- Shine an authentic spotlight on the experiences and stories.
Funding Information
The maximum grant amount is $8,000.
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
- Projects must highlight women’s and gender-expansive people’s leadership and/or central role
- Projects must demonstrate a commitment to NYC-based communities (Please note that they have made grants outside of this geographic scope to projects of exceptional merit)
- 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 must have a track record of developed work that demonstrates their capacity to complete the proposed project and manage the funds requested
- 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 impact.
Ineligibility
- Capital or endowment campaigns
- Equipment purchases
- Support to address financial crises or shortfalls
- Purely personal works of artistic expression with little or no social justice impact
- Documentation that is primarily of cultural events
- Performances or personalities that do not provide a social change analysis or social justice focus
- Student productions or projects associated with a degree program and academic credit.
For more information, visit Ms. Foundation for Women.
