Transnational Cultural Remittances Grant

 

- Artists and artisans working alone or in collectives

- Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

- 501©(3) tax-exempt nonprofit corporations

- Community-based volunteer organizations with arts or cultural components

 

Applicants must be based in the United States, Mexico or Central America(Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Belize, Costa Rica and Panama).

 

Eligible artists and organizations can have projects functioning across borders or sited in a single location as long as there is evidence of ongoing transnational exchange across communities from any of these regions.  For example, eligible applicants could be Oaxacans engaged in cultural activities with Michoacanos in New York, or Salvadorans with Guatemalans in the Mexican state of Chiapas.

 

 

 

Projects designed to teach, preserve or demonstrate the ways in which transnational cultural remittances occur and influence communities in the three regions could be considered for a project grant.  For example:

 

- Intergenerational projects or apprenticeships with a master artist or craftsperson in an ethnically or culturally specific art form

 

- Media documentation of transnational art/cultural practices

 

- Creation of new works reflecting transnational influences

 

- Capacity-building efforts aimed at strengthening exemplary transnational cultural activities

 

- Community-based festivals featuring transnational arts and culture

 

- Oral history and other auto-documentation projects that emphasize community participation

 


- Academic research projects

- For-profit entities or activities

- Arts service organizations

- Fundraising events

 

 

TCR awards will be no smaller than $2,000 and no greater than $20,000.

 

 

One-year grants—cannot begin before December 15, 2010 and must end by December 15, 2011

 

 

Awards will be sent no sooner than December 15, 2010.

 

 

Complete applications submitted by August 15, 2010 will be reviewed and evaluated by a diverse panel of representatives from the field.  

 

 

Applications will be reviewed on the basis of the following criteria:



 

50%                                         IMPACT

Demonstration of two-way reciprocal transnational exchange


Evidence of community grassroots input and/or participation in project


Potential for enhancing or for creating long-term tangible benefit to target communitues


Equitable sharing of financial and human resources


Potential to broaden and/or deepen knowledge of art and culture, communication, social and/ or economic conditions
Evidence of sustainability of artistic and cultural assets in project design

 

 

25%                                         MERIT


 

Artistic significance of the proposed activity


Cultural significance of the proposed activity


Economic significance of the proposed activity

 

25%                             CAPABILITY


 

Strength of partnership


Financial & administrative ability to carry out project


Appropriate budget for scope of project


Ability to effectively evaluate goals & outcomes

 

 

Technical assistance period

 

Deadline for submitting on-line application forms

 

Postmark deadline for mailing support materials

 

Notification of TCR grant awards

 

A mid-term report is due by July 15, 2011 and a final narrative and budget report are due no later than 90 days after the grant period ends. 

 

Step 1—Prepare and submit TCR application forms on-line.

 

The following TCR grant application forms are available on-line only and must be submitted electronically by the application deadline.

 

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