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Each year, the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council pursues local foundations and corporations for funds to "re-grant" directly to the arts community. These small awards are designed to provide an infusion of big-picture thinking and career-changing connections.  Sometimes it's by sending a sculptor to study with a famous mentor or helping a marketing director try a new strategy to grow audiences.  Other times it's by funding an art project in a community that rarely has access to grants.  To see which program is a good fit for you, read on!  You can also view previously-funded grantees.

SOUPN'AT

SOUP N'AT raises funds by cooking a community meals. All proceeds support local artmaking. SOUP N'AT fosters an engaged community of artists and patrons through the ancient and beloved acts of breaking bread and making artful conversation.

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Awesome Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, prepare to increase your awesomeness, $1,000 at a time.

Awesome Pittsburgh is a chapter of the Awesome Foundation, a global network of people devoted to forwarding the interest of awesomeness in the universe. The Awesome Foundation grants money – cold hard cash with no strings attached – to people or groups with brilliant ideas. Chapters around the world fund new projects every month.

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Advancing the Black Arts in Pittsburgh

The pdf Advancing the Black Arts in Pittsburgh grant program was launched in January 2011 by The Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation with the following goals:

  1. to help to build the careers of individual artists
  2. to increase the sustainability of cultural organizations that focus on Black arts
  3. to build community awareness of the Black arts sector
  4. to support connections between Black arts organizations and larger and predominantly white arts organizations.

The Heinz Endowments and the Pittsburgh Foundation believe that "growing institutional capacity, supporting career development, and building understanding and awareness within the larger community is the best way to ensure that there will be a continuing presence of these cultural forms and an increasing interest in and demand for them."

Program Deadlines
February 25, 2013—funding decisions announced in April
August 15, 2013—funding decisions announced in October


For more information, visit:  www.heinz.org  or www.pittsburghfoundation.org

With questions, contact:


Individual Artist Support / Artist Residencies
Janet Sarbaugh, Program Director, The Heinz Endowments
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Unrestricted Support
Germaine Williams, Program Officer, The Pittsburgh Foundation
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Advancing the Field
Justin Laing, Program Officer, The Heinz Endowments
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Terms:Artists, Arts Advocates, Arts Managers, Other Grant Opportunities
 

Artist Opportunity Grants

Greater Pittsburgh Artist Opportunity Grants help advance the careers of individual artists by providing funds to support expenses related to specific, extraordinary opportunities that have the potential to significantly impact an artist's work and professional development. Grants range from $250 to $2,500. 

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PA Partners in the Arts

logo of the pa council on the arts, a state agency

PA Partners is a regranting initiative of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA), a state agency. State government funding for the arts depends on an annual appropriation by the Pennsylvania General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.  PA Partners is administered in this region by the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. (Think of GPAC as the local distributor for this state-wide funding!)  For more information on the funding process, click pdf here.

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Grant Recipients

The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council congratulates the following grantees, who have been funded through our regranting programs.  Click on a program to view the funded individuals, programs and projects.