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- Alabama Humanities Foundation
- Grants Program
Non-profit organizations are applicable for grants from this foundation,
this site provides the guidelines for the application process.
- American
Antiquarian Society (AAS)
Call for applications for visiting fellowships for historical research by creative and performing artists,
writers, film makers, journalists, and other persons whose goals are to produce imaginative, non-formulaic
works dealing with pre-twentieth-century American history.
- Animating
Democracy Initiative
Read about grants offered by this arts advocacy program sponsored by
Americans for the Arts.
- Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
Arthur Vining Davis Foundations are dedicated to strengthening America through education.
- Astrea National Lesbian Action Foundation
Grants and philanthropic advocacy programs help lesbians and allied community challenging oppression
and claim human rights.
- Ben and Jerry's Foundation
The Ben & Jerry's Foundation offers competitive grants to not-for-profit, grassroots organizations throughout
the United States which facilitate progressive social change by addressing the underlying conditions of societal
and environmental problems.
- Carnegie Corporation
Many areas of funding includes: education, international peace and security, international development,
United States democracy.
- Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)
Asian films, articles and filmmaker resources - A non-profit organization dedicated to presenting stories that
convey the richness and diversity of Asian American experiences to the broadest audience possible by funding,
producing, distributing and exhibiting works in film, television and digital media.
- Center For Independent Documentaries
CID is a non-profit organization dedicated exclusively to collaborating with independent filmmakers,
offering assistance and support in bringing their films to completion.
- Chicken and Egg Pictures
Chicken and Egg Pictures are a “hybrid film fund and non-profit production company dedicated to supporting women filmmakers who are as passionate about the craft of storytelling as they are about the social justice, environmental and human rights issues they’re embracing, translating and exploring on film.” Chicken and Egg Pictures has given our over 1 million dollars to filmmakers in the last five years.
- Cinereach
Cinereach supports feature-length nonfiction and fiction films that are at the intersection of engaging storytelling, visual artistry, and vital subject matter.
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Grants open to individuals or institutions in television, research and consulting.
- Creative
Capital Foundation
Organization provides grants to film, video, and new media artists.
Learn how to apply and get profiles of grantees.
- Fleischhacker Foundation
The Foundation has two grant making programs: Arts & Culture and Precollegiate (K-12) Education.
- Ford Foundation
Broad grants database includes asset building, community development, knowledge, creativity, freedom,
peace and social justice areas.
- The Foundation Center
Grantseekers, funding research, training and tutorials.
- Fractured Atlas
Fractured Atlas is a non-profit organization that serves a national community of artists and arts organizations.
- Frameline
Frameline's Filmmaker Support Program seeks to provide grants, awards and training to insure that new
LGBT films make it to the screen.
- The Fund for Jewish Documentary Filmmaking
The Fund is designed to support the creation of original documentary films and videos that promote thoughtful
consideration of Jewish history, culture, identity, and contemporary issues among diverse public audiences
- Funding Exchange/Paul Robeson Fund
Funding Exchange (FEX) is a leader in the social justice movements. The Activist-Advised Funds of the Funding
Exchange directly involve community activists and leaders in philanthropic decision-making.
- Greenhouse Fund
The Greenhouse Fund competitively awards grants for industry training and
professional development projects for public television professionals.
- Independent Television Services (ITVS)
ITVS is looking for proposals that increase diversity on public television and present a range of subjects,
viewpoints and forms that complement and challenge existing public television offerings.
- Indie Gogo
IndieGoGo, works to enable you to get your ideas funded.
- International
Film Seminars - Scholarships
Organization sponsors several grants and fellowships for filmmakers
interested in the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. Download applications.
- John D, and Catherine Mac Arthur Foundation
Foundation fosters the development of knowledge, nurtures individual creativity, strengthens institutions,
helps improve public policy, and provides information to the public, primarily through support for public interest media.
- Kickstarter
Kickstarter is the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world.
- Latino Public Broadcasting
Latino Public Broadcasting supports the development, production, acquisition, and distribution of non-commercial
educational and cultural television that is representative of Latino people, or addresses issues of particular
interest to Latino Americans.
- McCormick Foundation
NMWE is a unique initiative addressing opportunity and innovation, recruitment and retention for women in journalism by spotlighting their ingenuity and entrepreneurial abilities.
- Native American Public Telecommunications
NAPT fosters the creation of authentic Native American programming for public
television.
- National Black Programming Consortium
NBPC seeks projects from producers and directors whose work have the potential for airing on the national
or regional public television schedule.
- National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is committed to encouraging the artists and organizations that
participate in advancing and preserving the media arts, and to supporting the production of media art
works that celebrate the arts -- visual arts, music, dance, literature, design, theater, musical theater,
opera, folk & traditional arts, etc. -- in an engaging and creative manner
- National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation promotes and advances scientific progress in the United States by
competitively awarding grants and cooperative agreements for research and education in the sciences,
mathematics, and engineering.
- NEFilm
Funding opportunities and links.
- New York Foundation for the Arts
Offers financial and informational support to the artists in New York
State and throughout the United States.
- Nextpix
Mission: produce and distribute quality media content in both traditional
and digital formats for theatrical, video/DVD and Internet release.
- The Open Society Institute's Youth
The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grant making foundation, aims to shape
public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social
reform including youth initiatives.
- Oppenheimer Camera New Filmmaker Equipment Grant Program
The Oppenheimer Cine Rental New Filmmaker Equipment Grant Program is a grant to support new
filmmakers in producing their first serious film project.
- POV American Documentary
Point of View is filmmaker-focused; intent on supporting and presenting the work of today's
best contemporary storytellers.
- Roy W. Dean Film and Video Grants
From the Heart Productions is dedicated to funding films that are "unique and make a contribution to society".
- Solaris Entertainment
Solaris offers a "Finishing Fund" to support fellow indie
filmmakers who seek the resources necessary to complete their films.
In addition to financing the completion of these films, Solaris offers
the expertise necessary to help navigate the post-production waters,
enabling filmmakers to get the film they envision to the market in the
most effective way. They will assist in the films' promotion, festival
strategy, and sales strategy.
- Sundance Institute Documentary Fund
The Sundance Institute Documentary Fund is made possible by Open Society Institute. Films supported by
the Fund have received widespread distribution to their intended audiences via broadcast and
theatrical release.
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