Browse a range of current funding opportunities and general resources for funding available to dance professionals. This listing is updated weekly and is accessible to all regardless of membership. To list your upcoming funding opportunity on this page, please contact the Membership Department.
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| Grant | Organization | Description | Apply | Deadline | Date Added |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Neighborhood Access and Equity Grant Program | Department of Transportation | The Neighborhood Access and Equity Grant Program provides grants to assist economically disadvantaged or underserved communities for planning and construction activities. The Program supports planning, capital construction, and regional partnership activities that aim to restore community connectivity through the removal, retrofit, mitigation, or replacement of highways, roadways, or other infrastructure facilities that create barriers to mobility, access, or economic development. The goals of the Program include prioritizing disadvantaged communities; aiming to improve access to daily needs such as jobs, education, healthcare, food, and recreation; fostering equitable development and restoration; and reconnecting communities by removing, retrofitting, or mitigating highways or other transportation facilities that create barriers to community connectivity, including to mobility, access, or economic development. | https://www.transportation.gov/grants/rcnprogram | September 28, 2023 | August 21, 2023 |
| Support Available for Professional Theatres and Dance Companies | The Shubert Foundation | Grant amount: The minimum grant amount is $15,000. Description: The Shubert Foundation is dedicated to sustaining and advancing the live performing arts in the United States. Support is primarily provided for nonprofit, professional theatres, with a secondary focus on nonprofit, professional dance companies. The Foundation is especially interested in theatre and dance companies that develop and produce new American work. A limited number of grants are also made in the program areas of Arts Related Organizations and Shubert Scholars. The Foundation exclusively provides general operating support. U.S. nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, a record of artistic activity, a record of developing and producing new work, and a demonstrated commitment to underserved audiences or underrepresented voices are eligible to apply. | https://www.shubertfoundation.org/ | October 18, 2023, for Dance, Arts Related, and Shubert Scholars applications, and December 5, 2023, for Theatre applications | August 18, 2023 |
| Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives | Council on Library and Information Resources | Grant amount: $50,000 to $300,000 Description: The Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives program, administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources, provides support to digitize rare and unique content stewarded by collecting organizations in the U.S. and Canada. The focus of the 2023-24 call for proposals, Amplifying Unheard Voices, is to support efforts to digitize rare and unique historical and cultural materials in a variety of formats that deepen public understanding of the histories of people of color and other communities and populations whose work, experiences, and perspectives have been insufficiently recognized or unattended. Nonprofit, academic, independent, and community-based organizations, as well as government entities, in the U.S. and Canada that collect, preserve, and share rare and unique materials with the general public are eligible to apply. | https://www.clir.org/hiddencollections/ | November 1, 2023 | August 18, 2023 |
| Disability. Dance. Artistry. Dance and Social Justice Fellowship Program | Dance/NYC | Dance/NYC invites disabled dance workers to submit applications for awards through the third iteration of the Disability. Dance. Artistry. Dance and Social Justice Fellowship Program, designed to recognize the critical role that disabled dance workers and arts practitioners play in social justice movements and to ensure that these workers are supported while continuing to place disability front and center as a positive artistic and generative force. Selected individual NYC-based disabled dance workers will receive awards scaled from $1,500-$4,000, to retroactively reimburse expenses incurred from engaging in dance and/or social justice activities from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023. Applications must be submitted by October 10, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. E.T. | https://bit.ly/3L9v4us | October 10, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. E.T. | September 7, 2023 |
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Many state arts agencies that have special grant categories designed to support career/professional development or travel for conferences. Find a list of regional arts organizations and state arts agencies here.
Chronicle of Philanthropy
News for not-for-profit organizations on grant seeking, foundations, fundraising, managing not-for-profit groups, technology, and not-for-profit jobs.
USA.gov
USA.gov provides links to grants, not-for-profit registration and tax information, and other topics.
Candid
Comprehensive source for information on nonprofits, foundations, and grants. This includes Guidestar, a searchable database of 1.8 million IRS-recognized tax-exempt organizations.
Philanthropy News Digest
A daily news service of Candid, is a compendium of philanthropy-related articles and features, including RFPs and jobs, pulled from print and electronic media outlets nationwide.
The Grantmanship Center
Organization which provides grant information and grantsmanship training and resources.
Regional Associations of Grantmakers
Browse a list of regional associations via the Council on Foundations.
* postings updated as of September 15, 2021
Please note: Listings on this website (danceusa.org) are all user generated. The inclusion of content by any user does not constitute an endorsement by Dance/USA of that individual or organization’s views. Please email Dance/USA’s Membership Department if you have any questions or would like to flag a listing. Dance/USA reserves the right to remove a posting at any time.
