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Animating Democracy: Strengthening the Role of Art
From 1999 to 2003, Americans for Arts’ Animating Democracy Lab provided grants and advisory support to 32 cultural organizations across the country to implement projects that experimented with or deepened existing approaches to arts- and humanities-based civic dialogue. Investigation through these diverse projects, individually and collectively, aimed to advance field learning about the philosophical, practical, and social dimensions of this work. Learn about the initiative and the lab projects.
http://www.artsusa.org/AnimatingDemocracy/programs/programs_002.asp

Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
The purpose of the Foundations is to provide financial assistance, within the limits of their budgets and the discretion of their Trustees, to certain educational, cultural, scientific and religious institutions. The Board of Trustees’ current practice is to award grants primarily in the areas of private higher education, secondary education, graduate theological education, health care and public television.
http://www.avdfdn.org/

Center for Alternative Media and Culture
A large listing of grantmakers and funding sources, including non-profit sponsorship information.
http://www.holytoledo.com/grants.htm

Center for Asian American Media Fund
The Center for Asian American Media provides funding and support for provocative and engaging Asian American film and media projects from independent producers. CAAM awards production and completion funds for projects intended for public television broadcast. Since 1990, more than $3 million has been granted to over 150 projects. Funding is made possible with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
http://www.asianamericanmedia.org/rf_cms/index.php?cmd=showPage&page_id=1.3.1§ion=1.3

Chronicle of Philanthropy
Online journal with features, job listings, and grant announcements. Some parts of the website are "members-only" and others are free to the general public.
http://www.philanthropy.com/

Corporation for Public Broadcasting
This is the home page for public broadcasting, with events, calendar, grant deadlines and guidelines, and a CPB directory.
http://www.cpb.org/

Council on Foundations - Film & Video Festival
The Film & Video Festival showcases foundation-funded productions and the strategies by which grantmakers use film, video and television productions to advance their program goals. Held in conjunction with the Council on Foundations Annual Conference, the Fall Conference for Community Foundations and the Family Foundation Conference, the festival promotes foundation support of creative, high-quality productions that expand the boundaries of the use of media for charitable purposes.
http://www.fundfilm.org/

Experimental Television Center Arts Grants
The Experimental Television Center provides support to electronic media and film artists and organizations in New York State to encourage creative work; to facilitate the exhibition of moving-image and sound art to audiences in all regions of the State; and to strengthen organizations with active media programs. Since 1989 we have awarded over $750,000 to organizations and artists. The program is made possible with support from the New York State Council on the Arts.
http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/

Film Arts Foundation (FAF)
Is a Bay Area member-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the support of independent film and video makers, providing resources for creation, exhibition and distribution of their work. Access to their grant listing requires membership signup.
http://www.filmarts.org/

Foundation Center
The Foundation Center is an independent nonprofit information clearinghouse of information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects. Their site has a database of grants, information on their publications (they produce over 60 annually) and Foundation Center Libraries located around the country.
http://www.fdncenter.org/

Grantmakers In the Arts
A nonprofit membership organization comprised of private foundations, family foundations, community foundations, corporate foundations, corporate giving programs, and nonprofit organizations that make arts grants. GIA aims to strengthen the field of private sector arts grantmaking by improving communication, information exchange, and peer learning within the field as a whole and increase the presence of arts philanthropy within the broader foundation and policy making communities, thereby promoting more meaningful support of arts and culture; and support individual arts grantmakers in increasing their effectiveness and their capacity to meet their objectives.
http://giarts.org/

ITVS Funding Resource
ITVS funds, distributes and promotes new programs primarily for public television. We work with independent producers to create and present programs that take creative risks, advance issues and represent points of view not usually seen on public or commercial television. ITVS is committed to programming that addresses the needs of underserved and underrepresented audiences. We look for programs that bring new audiences to public television and that expand civic participation by bringing diverse voices into the public sphere.
http://www.itvs.org/producers/funding.html

Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities
Mass Humanities supports public humanities projects. Public humanities projects bring historical, cultural or ethical perspectives to bear on topics and issues of interest to our communities. These projects can take many different forms, but they have the following characteristics in common. They: * Engage participants in thinking critically about fundamental questions of value, purpose, and meaning. * Promote better understanding of ourselves and others, past and present. * Are conducted in a spirit of open and informed inquiry. * Involve partnerships between community organizations, cultural institutions, and scholars in the humanities.
http://www.mfh.org/grants/index.htm

National Center for Outreach Grants
Public Broadcasting Station's funding system. Different types of grants available.
http://www.nationaloutreach.org/BuildingOnBroadcast/Grants/index.cfm

New York Foundation of the Arts Source
NYFA’s mission starts with individual artists in the visual, media, performing and literary arts. This site offers access to the most comprehensive list of resources for artists in the nation, opening doors to the widest range of financial, educational, technological, and institutional resources and information.
http://www.nyfa.org/

Roy W. Dean Film and Video Grant
Our goal is to make films that might otherwise never be made. From the Heart Productions is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to funding films that are “unique and make a contribution to society�?. Started in 1992 by Carole Dean.
http://www.fromtheheartproductions.com/

The Minor Foundation for Major Challenges
The Minor Foundation for Major Challenges gives support to information projects that aim to limit human-created climate changes. Any project whose objective is to influence public opinion and change attitudes to these problems is eligible for support. We want to support innovative, experimental, untested measures. The Minor Foundation will give priority to the media and tools that have the greatest impact at any time.
http://www.minor-foundation.no/

The National Cristina Foundation
National Cristina Foundation (NCF) provides computer technology and solutions to give people with disabilities, students at risk and economically disadvantaged persons the opportunity, through training, to lead more independent and productive lives. Every day, across America and around the world, National Cristina Foundation is working to ensure that used computer technology resources that no longer meet an enterprise's or an individual's needs are given a second productive life as a tool for developing human potential.
http://www.cristina.org/

The National Endowment for the Arts
Guide to the NEA which includes an up to date staff directory, a listing of publications, a monthly on-line journal and contact information for state arts agencies.
http://arts.endow.gov/

The National Endowment for the Humanities
NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.
http://www.neh.gov/grants/index.html

The Paul Robeson Media Fund
Named to honor singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson, the Fund supports media activism and grassroots organizing by funding the pre-production and distribution of social issue film and video projects and the production and distribution of radio projects, made by local, state, national or international organizations and individual media producers. The Fund solicits projects of all genres that address critical social and political issues, combine intellectual clarity with creative use of the medium and demonstrate understanding of how the production will be used for progressive social justice organizing. The maximum grant award is $20,000; most grants range between $5,000 and $15,000. The Fund has one grant cycle a year.
http://www.fex.org/content/index.php?pid=29

The Salmanowitz Program
Has developed a database of over 400 potential funders that provide support for films on the subject of moral courage. This database is maintained by George Washington University. It may not be completely up to date, but can serve as a good reference point for other funding sources.
http://www.gwu.edu/doccenter/search.html

The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation is interested in programs and projects offering potential for significant impact. The primary focus is on the San Francisco Bay Area (counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo) and Hawaii.
http://foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/gerbode/