Dance/MetroDC: A branch of Dance/USA

Funding

The DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities
The DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities offers several funding programs for individuals and nonprofit organizations located in the District of Columbia. Individuals are not required to provide matching funds. Organizations are only required to provide matching funds as indicated.
For more information on the following grants or to apply, please visit http://dcarts.dc.gov/DC/DCARTS/Grants/Apply+for+Grants/Apply+for+Grants

Arts Education Projects
Available to Individuals and Organizations
Deadline: Wednesday, July 21, 2010
The Arts Education Project Grant offers funding to to individuals and organizations for projects that provide students training and exposure in a number of artistic disciplines. The projects should reinforce the importance of the arts as part of quality education, be consistent with current DC Public Schools Content Standards, and address the needs of the targeted community.
Eligible projects include, but are not limited to, artist residencies, workshops, professional development for teachers, curriculum integration projects, performances, and new venues for artistic expression. Projects are funded in two categories: community-based and school-based.
Category 1 - Community-Based Projects take place beyond traditional school hours—that is, early morning, late afternoon, weekends and during the summer. Out-of-School Time projects emphasize community impact and involvement, in addition to artistic and educational merit and may take place at school sites.
Category 2 - School-Based Projects take place primarily during the traditional school day (8:45 am to 3:15 pm), although the project may take place at a location other than a school. The evaluation criteria for Curriculum-Based projects emphasize curriculum-based projects, as well as artistic merit and community involvement.

Capital Region Touring Program
Guidelines and Applications Available Starting June 30th.
Available to Organizations
In cooperation with the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC).
The Capital Region Touring Program is designed to promote the artistic exchange of professional touring artists between District of Columbia and Maryland. This is a unique and exciting opportunity for District of Columbia performing artists to enhance their marketing and touring capacity, as well as showcase the wide array of diverse talent in both regions.
District of Columbia nonprofit organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are invited to apply for funding to help defray costs associated with presenting participating performing artists at venues in District of Columbia. Participating artists must appear on DCCAH's Performing Artist Roster or on the MSAC Performing Artist Roster.
MSAC will provide funding to DC nonprofit organizations that meet the eligibility requirements to present DC based performing artists at venues in Maryland.

City Arts Projects
Available to Individuals and Organizations.
Deadline: Friday, July 30, 2010
The City Arts Projects program expands the quality and diversity of arts activities throughout the city, supports local artists, and makes arts experiences accessible to District residents. Individuals and organizations are eligible to apply. City Arts Projects expose the arts to the broader community or to persons traditionally underserved or separate from the mainstream due to geographic location, economic constraints, or disability. Eligible projects include, but are not limited to concerts, visual arts exhibitions and literary readings.

Elders Learning Through the Arts Program
Available to Individuals and Organizations
Deadline: Friday, August 6, 2010
The Elders Learning Through the Arts Program (ELTA) offers quick response grants up to $5,000 to individual artists and arts organizations serving seniors, 60 and older, in arts programs. Funds are intended to support innovative arts projects that demonstrate imaginative use of artistic skill and provide meaningful activities that strengthen senior communities as well as provide positive alternatives not otherwise readily available for seniors.

Folk & Traditional Arts Mini-Grant Program
Available to Individuals and Organizations
Deadline: Wednesday, August 11, 2010
The Folk & Traditional Arts Mini-Grant (FTA) offers quick response small-scaled grants up to $1,000 to artists and arts organizations practicing or supporting folk traditions. The Folk Arts Program supports projects that are developed in close consultation and collaboration with the communities whose traditions are to be presented. Individuals and organizations are encouraged to use folklorists, ethnomusicologists, or other specialists for documentation, program development, interpretation of presentations and program production.

Hip Hop Community Arts
Available to Individuals and Organizations
Deadline: Friday, August 6, 2010
The Hip Hop Community Arts offers funds to individuals and organizations for programs that encourage the growth of quality Hip Hop arts activities throughout the city and making Hip Hop arts experiences accessible to District residents. Eligible projects include, but are not limited to: visual arts exhibitions, literary readings, productions and presentations of dance theater, or music, multidisciplinary presentations, interdisciplinary art forms, arts education projects, festivals and concerts.

Small Projects Program
Available to Individuals and Organizations
Deadlines: Monday, July 19, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
The Small Projects Program (SPP) offers quick response grants of up to $2,000 to individual artists and arts organizations. The program seeks to make grant funds more accessible for small-scale arts projects with total budget that do not exceed $4,000. Projects may include but are not limited to: Art presentations, Assistance in fundraising, marketing and management, Documentation of artistic activities through photography, brochures, portfolios and demo tapes. Conferences, workshops or seminars that will enhance artistic and professional development.

Young Artist Grant Program
Available to Individuals
Deadline: Wednesday, September 15, 2010
The Young Artist Program offers grants of up to $3,000 to artists between the ages of 18 and 30. The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) recognizes that there are young segments of our community who are creating art and contributing to the vitality of our city. This program is devoted to identifying and assisting these young artists. Grants will support individuals in the following areas: crafts, dance, literature, poetry, media, music, interdisciplinary, performance art, theater and visual arts. Eligible projects include support for innovative art projects and community service art projects that aim to provide access and positive alternatives for youth and seniors.

Artist Fellowship Program
Available to Individuals
Deadline: Wednesday, July 14, 2010
The Artist Fellowship Program offers grants to individuals in a broad range of artistic endeavors. Individual Fellowships support individual artists who make significant contributions to the arts and who promote the arts in the District of Columbia through artistic excellence. Fellowship artistic disciplines rotate on a biannual basis.

East of the River Program
Available to Organizations
Deadline: Monday, August 2, 2010
The East of the River Program (EOR) focuses on arts activities east of the Anacostia River. The program strengthens organizational structures, develops audiences, and increases arts presentations east of the river. To be eligible, an organization's operating facility must be east of the Anacostia River (Wards 7 and 8) in the District of Columbia. The organization also must have federal (IRS) and District tax-exempt status by the application date, and a representative must attend one of the required workshops.

Grants-in-Aid to Organizations
Available to Organizations
Deadline: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
The Grants-in-Aid to Organizations Program offers general operating support to arts organizations in the District of Columbia. This program offers organizations financial assistance to help meet costs related to regular programming activities and administration. All organizations applying must have their 501(c)(3) nonprofit status and DC tax-exempt certification at least one year prior to the application date.

Arts Council of Fairfax County - Organizational Development Grant Program
Deadline: September 22
The purpose of Organizational Development Grant Program is to encourage the development and advancement of the arts in Fairfax County while serving the artistic and cultural needs of Fairfax County residents and their families.
http://www.artsfairfax.org/grants

APAP Cultural Exchange Fund Travel Grants
Deadline: November 15
The Association of Performing Arts Presenters is accepting applications for the Cultural Exchange Fund travel subsidy program supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to meet the individual and group travel needs for Arts Presenters members who are building partnerships and collaborations with international artists. This funding round will support travel taking place between December 2010 and June 2011.
The fund is a travel subsidy program meant to assist U.S.-based presenters working to build partnerships and collaborations with international touring artists, companies, and their collaborators and to encourage presentation of the work of artists from around the world in its cultural context. In promoting cross-cultural arts programming, Arts Presenters strongly encourages travel to the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
Arts Presenters will award travel subsidies to individual presenters, presenting organizations, and to groups of presenters traveling to see the work of artists, companies, and/or to develop and advance projects with international artists and their collaborators.
All applicants must be active members of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters. For-profit organizations are not eligible. The fund does not support artists who are performing or traveling to meet with international presenters about performance opportunities, nor does it fund managers, agents, or producers working to expand business rosters.
The maximum amount awarded per individual organization, inclusive of travel costs and per diem, is $2,000. Group travel subsidies will be awarded only to groups of three or more presenters from different member presenting organizations. The maximum award for a group is $10,000, with no more than $2,000 awarded per organization. The lead partner organization must be a presenter or presenting organization.
Visit the Arts Presenters Web site for more information.
Link to Complete RFP

Arts Council of Fairfax County - Strauss Fellowship
Deadline: January 19
The Arts Council of Fairfax County awards Strauss Fellowships to support and encourage Fairfax County’s finest creative artists in all disciplines. Strauss Fellowships recognize professional working artists’ achievements and their demonstrated history of accomplishments; they promote artists’ continued pursuit of their creative work. Strauss Fellowships are an investment in the sustained growth and development of the arts in Fairfax County as well as a way to honor artists’ commitment to an artistic discipline, their professional activity in Fairfax County, and their contributions to the quality of life in Fairfax County.
This is a competitive grant program where the recipients are determined by their work’s merit. No specific project needs to be carried out with the funds granted – Strauss Fellowships award outstanding achievement in work that has already been completed
http://www.artsfairfax.org/grants

Arlington Commission for the Arts Grants
Deadline: late January
The Arlington Commission for the Arts administers the grants program for Arlington County's artists and arts organizations. The Arlington County Policy for the Support of Arts Organizations and Artists (as approved by the Arlington County Board on December 8, 1990) describes eligibility for the program, application procedures and criteria for evaluation.For more information, call grants officer Joan Lynch at 703-228-1852, or email her.
Grants are available for non-profit arts organizations that are headquartered in Arlington, and for individual practicing artists producing, composing, writing, presenting or supporting dance, literary arts, media arts, music, theatre, visual arts or related arts, who are legal residents of Arlington.
http://www.arlingtonarts.org/resources/grants.aspx

DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities Grants Program
Deadline: Ongoing
The DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities offers several funding programs for individuals and nonprofit organizations located in the District of Columbia. Individuals are not required to provide matching funds. Organizations are only required to provide matching funds as indicated.
http://dcarts.dc.gov/DC/DCARTS/Grants/Apply+for+Grants/Apply+for+Grants

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Grants
Deadline: ongoing
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation supports multiple funding programs.
Presenting, Touring and Exhibiting programs work to strengthen the region’s presenter network, provide stable touring engagements for artists both within our region and internationally, and give communities high quality, varied artistic experiences. The programs build audiences for artists and provide opportunities for greater understanding and appreciation of the arts throughout the mid-Atlantic and the world.
Artist Support, Projects and Residencies allow artists to explore, create and exhibit their work while providing support and services to assist in career development.
Knowledge Building programs develop the capacity of national artists and arts organizations and enhance their participation in the Foundation’s programs and services.
Special Projects allow the Foundation to engage in activities outside the scope of general programming. These projects frequently involve partnerships with the National Endowment for the Arts or other government/private entities.
http://midatlanticarts.org/funding/index.html

Fairfax Commission for the Arts Grants
Deadline: ongoing
The Commission supports both established, and up and coming arts organizations by providing grants to suitably qualified applicants. We also have an active school arts program that supplements, and enhances the regular curriculum of school activities. Click here to learn more about applying for a grant.
http://www.fairfaxarts.org/