The Pittsburgh Foundation is accepting applications for its 2024 Advancing Black Arts grants.
Donor Name: The Pittsburgh Foundation
State: Pennsylvania
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/13/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The City of Pittsburgh is known for its rich contributions to the canon of Black cultural creativity. Cultural experiences and creative innovations have always reflected the expressions and imaginations of people from the African Diaspora. The Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh program is where access and opportunity connect with Pittsburgh artists – specifically organizations and individuals whose work focuses on the art of African Americans, Africa and the larger African Diaspora – who are thriving in their creative process as a means and a way of life.
The program is committed to helping to create a vibrant cultural life in Pittsburgh and the region. Until 2023, the program was co-managed in partnership with The Heinz Endowments. Currently the program is managed by The Pittsburgh Foundation, with both foundations consistently making investments towards this initiative since 1988.
The program goals are to:
- Help build the careers and support the lives of individual artists.
- Increase the sustainability of cultural organizations that focus on Black arts.
- Build community awareness of the Black arts sector.
- Support efforts toward greater collaboration and the elimination of racial disparities within the larger arts sector.
- Prioritize the documentation and discussion of Black artists’ work and wellbeing as part of the region’s cultural health.
- Support work that directly addresses and calls for the eradication of systemic and structural racism that allows for disparities to exist.
Funding Streams
- Project support
- Up to $50,000
- Over two years $25,000/year
- Aboveground railroad grant
- Up to $10,000
- One year
- General operating support
- Up to $100,000
- Over two years – $50,000/yr
Eligibility Criteria
Individual Artist
- Must be at least 18 years of age by the time of submission.
- Identify as Black, African American, African, Caribbean, Afro-Latinx or of the African diaspora.
- Must have their primary residence within the Pittsburgh region to be eligible to apply for funding. This includes applicants whose primary residence is within Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Mercer, Lawrence, Somerset, Venango, Washington and Westmoreland counties.
- Note: Previous grantees of this program are eligible to apply again for a grant decision that is 12 months after completion of the previous grant and the submission of a final report.
Organizations
- Be a Black-led and serving 501(c)(3) organization, a fiscally sponsored organization or collective working with a Black fiscal sponsor.
- Have a history of producing or presenting Black art and culture.
- Be located within the Pittsburgh region and/or primarily serve Pittsburgh area residents. Applicants in the following counties are eligible to apply for funding: Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Mercer, Lawrence, Somerset, Venango, Washington and Westmoreland.
- Note: Previous grantees of this program are eligible to apply again for a grant decision that is 12 months after completion of the previous grant and the submission of a final report.
For more information, visit The Pittsburgh Foundation.
