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Creative Capital recently announced the winners of its latest round of awards, totaling $2.5 million. With a heightened focus on equity and accessibility, the funder is helping dozens of artists advance their careers.
The Cleveland Foundation's Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards recognize books that contribute to our understanding of racism and diversity. Manager Karen R. Long walks us through the only juried American book prize of its kind.
This investment company’s foundation took a unique approach to building financial literacy — a short story contest. The winners delivered some deep insights into managing money, including a lesson or two for funders.
For the Principal Foundation, a corporate funder backed by Principal Group, funding a short story contest this year has been one way to inspire people to rewrite their personal narratives about money.
A new report based on data from 410 literary arts nonprofits that applied to Mellon Foundation-funded Literary Arts Emergency Fund provides a concerning snapshot of the state of the field. We explore some key takeaways.
With roots in Chicago, the Logan brothers — Richard, Jonathan and Daniel — all have their own foundations. They’re each carrying on and evolving a long legacy of giving that began with their late parents, David and Reva Logan.
The Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation aims to make poetry more accessible through its website, exhibitions, and a unique film series. We take a look at its efforts at a time when people are increasingly seeking comfort in the form.
An increasing number of funders have been looking to spur social change through their arts funding, especially during the pandemic. Here are 11 examples we’ve been following.
The Inevitable Foundation launched in 2021 with the goal of boosting the representation of disabled mid-level screenwriters. We check in with its co-founders on its mission, early successes and what’s next.
Philanthropy for writing and literature is minuscule compared to other arts, but the field has some steadfast supporters, including major foundations and smaller family foundations.
Literary arts nonprofits face unique fundraising challenges, often falling through the cracks of donor interest. Fundraisers explain how they’ve stayed afloat and share encouraging funding trends they hope will continue.
Backed by the popular brand, Moleskine Foundation works to empower creators and advance social change in Africa and beyond. The foundation’s CEO tells us about this unique enterprise, including its work to close Wikipedia’s Africa gap.
The pandemic cut off many working writers’ sources of supplemental income and forced literary arts organizations to cancel revenue-generating events. Close to 300 groups will receive financial relief thanks to a new emergency fund.
Funders’ growing interest in equity and inclusion continues to transform the arts fundraising ecosystem, including the notoriously sleepy field of creative writing. Recent moves by two small grantmakers reflect this shift.
The foundation that Linda Breneman created with her ex-husband Jeremy Jaech, a software entrepreneur, has played an important role in strengthening Seattle's literary scene, along with other causes. We explore the backstory.
When the primary benefactor behind a nonprofit goes away, it can be a rough transition to a new and sustainable funding model. Some organizations don’t survive. The Ucross Foundation’s artist colony is determined to learn the ways of fundraising.
Poetry received a much-needed boost from the Mellon Foundation, whose president, Elizabeth Alexander, is an acclaimed poet. In addition to awarding cash, the historic gift also envisions poetry as a vehicle to address important social issues.
Ohio helped swing the 2016 election to Donald Trump, and the GOP controls both the governorship and state legislature there. But the Gordon Gund Foundation keeps working against the tide to advance a progressive agenda.
A while back, the University of Arizona reached a $1.5 billion campaign goal two years early. But the gifts kept coming in, highlighting the advantages of "always on" higher ed fundraising.
With seed money from Agnes Gund’s Art for Change fund, a new fellowship positions the written word as an important way to help tackle issues related to mass incarceration.
Experimental poets have a friend in the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, which announced three new poetry grants totalling $120,000.
With public funding for the arts under fire, some foundations are keen to make a case for the arts as a shared value across the entire population and not a privilege of coastal elites.
While many arts funders support mid-career artists of all stripes, it's relatively rare to come across a prize recognizing older creative writers precisely because they haven't yet published a book.
The Bancroft Prize was established in 1948 and is awarded annually by the trustees of Columbia University .We dig into the $10,000 prize and take a look at this year's winners.
Yet another generous literary prize, recently renamed after New York-based arts patrons, recognizes non-fiction works of American history.
With cost-conscious outlets devoting less space to "serious" art criticism, the niche field of art writing gets a critical boost from the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation.
A grantmaker expands the nominee pool of a major writing award, creating a minor buzz and leveraging subsequent exposure to augment its grantmaking activities.
Armed with a $1 million endowment from the Destina Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts names the recipient of a $40,000 prize honoring artist and poet Dorothea Tanning.
In an era where the nouveau rich and living donors are everywhere, a big bequest for literature to top New York cultural institutions stands out.
Contemporary art's surging popularity has lifted many boats. One unexpected beneficiary? Arts writers, who have an ally in an increasingly generous grants program.