Deadline: September 18, 2023
Applications are invited for the Supporting Act Foundation Impact Grant 2023. The Impact Grant is a program created by The Supporting Act Foundation following extensive research into alternative philanthropic approaches and the challenges facing emerging artists in Europe.
One important learning is that reducing financial uncertainty for artist-led organizations can be a key factor in driving long-term systemic change, building stronger communities, and creating positive impacts across the arts. As a result of these findings, they are offering 6 unrestricted grants to underfunded grassroots organizations with community-driven approaches towards using arts for social change, and in particular those offering support to emerging artists from underrecognized or marginalized groups.
Grant Amount
- Each grant amounts to €25,000 per year, awarded over a two-year period from December 2023, and totalling €50,000 per organization. They are intended to help cover operating expenses, or any other costs considered critical to successfully developing activities.
- Non-financial support will also be offered in the form of access to a network of peers and mentors, as well as promotion on Supporting Act Foundation’s social channels, and on the social channels and advertising and editorial platforms of their funding partner WeTransfer.
Eligibility
- If selected for a grant, they will request documents to validate that the organization you represent is:
- Registered as a non-profit in—or running as a non-profit with a fiscal sponsor registered in—the Netherlands, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain, or Italy between 2018 and 2022.
- Able to provide a bank account number in the name of the organization or of a fiscal sponsor in one of the countries listed above.
- Running with annual operating costs not greater than €125,000 / £110,000 in the current financial year (2023).
- Underfunded, which they define as the organization’s annual income in 2022 being less than the annual costs of its operations, which were therefore too reliant on unpaid/underpaid work, and/or on voluntary/in-kind services.
- Led by people who self-identify as artist/artists, or who use the arts in their approach.
- Able to provide publicly available evidence of running at least one project during 2022 with a community-driven approach to topics related to the use of arts for social change.
Eligible applications will be assessed by an independent jury of artists and specialists, including representatives of last year’s grantees, on the basis of financial need and the social relevance of each organization’s work and approach.
Application
Before considering submitting an application, read the Impact Grant guide. The application deadline is September 18, 2023 (11.59 AM CET).
For more information, visit Impact Grant.
