Grants/Awards

Paul Botts, The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation

Ten Common Mistakes Arts Groups Make When Seeking Grants (from somebody who spent years seeking grants before joining a foundation and gradually learning how much he’d been doing wrong)

1) Basing your specific pitch to a foundation or corporate funder on anything other than what that funder says they want to fund. more...

Selected Chicago Links

Sara Lee Foundation - Diversity through highly visible Cultural Programs

Source Type: corporate

Program Goals: diversity, visibility

Activities Funded: general operations

Eligible: organizations

Amount: -

Due Dates: open

Description: Inclusion and diversity is central to the Foundation's interest in the arts, so too is the amount of visibility generated by the proposed project. Projects must incorporate a highly visible marketing campaign which clearly conveys the project and its sponsor's involvement to the community. The Foundation primarily funds well established institutions.

Tremaine Foundation

The Foundation's art grantmaking program goal is to empower visual artists to succeed in the marketplace and to empower curators to continue to push the boundaries of contemporary art.

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