The Flamboyan Foundation’s Arts Fund launched “En Foco: Proyecto de Visibilización Cultural,” an open call for proposals to fund individuals and organizations that present creative and innovative projects aimed at amplifying the arts and culture in Puerto Rico.
Donor Name: Flamboyan Foundation
Territory: Puerto Rico
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/13/2023
Size of the Grant: $50,000 – $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
As exciting as it is to support artists and art organizations, the grant-making approach is equally evocative. Grantees from the Flamboyan Arts Fund, all artists and art organizations, convened to design, develop, and direct this initiative using participatory grantmaking as a model. During this process, stakeholders from the arts sector had the opportunity to identify the main priority for using these funds and establish the general parameters that guide the open call. A steering committee was formed, which will evaluate the proposals and select the new grantees. From conception to implementation, every step has been developed and implemented by artists to support other artists. After the initiative concludes, it will be presented as a case study on innovative and participatory models that can be replicated within the philanthropic sector of Puerto Rico.
Flamboyan Foundation is grateful to the Ford Foundation for providing financial support to this initiative so that together they can continue to preserve, amplify and strengthen the arts sector in Puerto Rico.
With an investment of $500,000, this new initiative is part of the amplify strategy , from which the Flamboyán Fund for the Arts seeks to create opportunities that provide greater exposure and visibility to the artistic and cultural ecosystem of Puerto Rico. Through the design of a participatory process for granting funds , the aim is to identify and select projects to be subsidized to support this strategy.
Purpose and Priority of the call
- With this call the foundation seeks subsidy proposals directed to make the ecosystem visible artistic and cultural of Puerto Rico.
- Within these parameters, a successful proposal:
- Is creative and clearly shows how it helps to make visible the artistic and cultural sector de Puerto Rico, the articles of the achievements that are expected to achieve a way of impact, demonstrate the proponent’s ability to carry out the proposed project, and includes as a protagonist the organizations of the artistic and cultural sector of Puerto Rico.
- Although the following is not essential for a successful proposal, they will be considered:
- Articulate in concrete form how to plan to ensure the sustainability of the initiative
- demonstrate how to alleviate the problems of visibility in the organizations of the sector artistic and cultural, without which it increases the burden of work,
- may benefit in terms of visibility to the sector primordially in the archipelago
- Incorporate students into their team as a strategy to generate more impact.
Funding Information
With a $500,000 budget, “En Foco: Proyecto de Visibilización Cultural” will grant $50,000 – $100,000 to artists and organizations to develop and showcase their work within a two-year period.
Eligibility Criteria
They may request (a) non-profit organizations in their individual character, (b) groups of two or more organizations and individuals (natural persons), and (c) individual applicants (natural people). They will not be eligible to apply for for-profit organizations.
- Requirements for applicants that are non-profit organizations in their character individual with or without tax exemption.
- With tax exemption:
- Submit:
- Certification of compliance (Good Standing) in force from the Department of State at the time of request.
- Certification of Validity of the Tax Exemption of Non-Profit Entity from the Department of the Treasury, or evidence of your 501(c)(3) exemption from the Service Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the United States.
- Employer social security number.
- Financial statements for the previous or most recent fiscal year, including the statement of activities (Income Statement) and the statement of financial position (Balance Sheet). Sheet). The financial statements are not required to be compiled or audited.
- Show evidence that the organization or any of the members of the organization who will participate in the project has at least three (3) years of experience in the sector artistic and cultural.
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