The Asian Women Giving Circle (AWGC), a donor-advised fund at the Ms. Foundation for Women, has announced a request for proposals focused on Women, Arts & Progressive Social Change
Donor Name: Ms. Foundation for Women
State: New York
City: New York City
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/24/2023
Size of the Grant: $8,000
Details:
AWGC supports organizations led by Asian American women or gender-expansive people 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, gender-expansive people, and families.
- Highlight and promote their central role as leaders, creators, developers and managers of these projects.
AWGC promotes grassroots philanthropy and pool resources to fund projects led by Asian American women and gender-expansive people who use their creativity to move hearts, minds and communities to be free of fear, bias and injustice. Goals are to:
- Channel more resources into our local communities.
- Engage more people to invest in creative projects by and for the communities.
- Shine an authentic spotlight on our experiences and stories.
- Promote progressive social change.
- Raise the visibility of Asian American women and gender-expansive people doing philanthropic work.
Funding Information
In this grants cycle, we anticipate that 6-8 project grants will be awarded, contingent on available funding. 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.
- 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.
For more information, visit Ms. Foundation for Women
