The Peter Capell Award for Midwestern Creativity & Entrepreneurship celebrates Midwesterners whose work demonstrates entrepreneurial thinking and business acumen.
Donor Name: Arts Midwest
State: Iowa
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 09/16/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The 2024 award will be open to nominees in Iowa.
Candidates’ work must involve creative or cultural programming, and they must demonstrate entrepreneurial thinking and business acumen in expanding access to arts and creativity in their communities. Examples of these traits include, but are not limited to:
- The identification and pursuit of innovative solutions to issues or problems.
- A passion for seeking out new opportunities that drive organizational success.
- Cross-sector partnerships that advance creativity and build communities.
- Projects, actions, and leadership that lead to strong community impact and align with Arts Midwest’s core values of equity, integrity, and learning.
- Projects, actions, and leadership that serve communities and populations that have faced marginalization and inequitable access to resources, and that work to break down barriers to access for under-represented and/or under-resourced communities and populations.
Funding Information
They will receive a $2,500 unrestricted cash award from Arts Midwest along with a matching $2,500 grant award from the Iowa Arts Council.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for the 2024 award, an individual must:
- Live and/or work within Iowa or Native Nations sharing that same geography. Their primary impact should be within that geographic region.
- Be employed by an organization that offers creative or cultural programming as a manager, director, or similar position. Organizations may be nonprofit or for-profit.
- Have a demonstrated history of engaging in partnerships and collegiality within the community in which they work.
- Have at least 10 years’ experience in their field.
Arts Midwest welcomes nominations for creative leaders that are diverse across lines of identity, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, appearance, religion, age, geographic location, expertise, education, socioeconomic background, and professional level.
They strongly encourage the nomination of leaders who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latina/Latino/Latinx, Persons of Color, LGBTQIA+, Persons with Disabilities, Persons whose primary language is not English, and/or from rural and remote communities.
For more information, visit Arts Midwest.