The Rhode Island Expansion Arts Program, a funding partnership of the Rhode Island Foundation, Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, and Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, is excited to open a new 2018-2019 funding opportunity for $5,000 seed grants to promote intercultural collaboration.
Description of opportunity
The RI Expansion Arts Program (RIEAP) seeks proposals from current and alumni grantees of RIEAP for projects, programs, or planning that bring together people and organizations across cultures to share cultural ideas, traditions, and heritages. RIEAP seeks to support creative and innovative partnerships and collaborations that strengthen our state’s cultural ecosystem, create sustainable connections between cultural organizations, and come from Rhode Island’s diverse communities. By investing in connections, this opportunity has the potential to highlight the state’s cultural assets, challenge assumptions, and bring communities together across differences. RIEAP will offer five seed grants of $5,000 each to RIEAP grantees and alumni; projects must include at least one partner organization that is also a current or past RIEAP grantee and may also include as partners other cultural or cross-sector (e.g. focused on health, environment, etc.) organizations.
In addition to the funding, recipients of Intercultural Collaboration Seed Grants will have the opportunity to participate in a three-day visit in late September by María López De León, the President, CEO and board member of the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) and an expert on intercultural initiatives nationwide.
Eligible applicants include:
- RIEAP current grantees (see list below)
- Culturally specific organizations that have received an RIEAP grant in the past (see list below)
The application must include as a partner:
- At least one current RIEAP grantee or alumni grantee (see list below)
The application may include as partners:
- Culturally specific organizations that have not received an RIEAP grant before
- Mainstream organizations (organizations that are not culturally specific)
- Cross-sector organizations (e.g. health, environment)
- Scholars or individual artists
Eligible projects include:
- Events that foster commonalities and connections across the communities of the organizations involved, their cultural practices, heritages, and histories, and their audiences
- Research and development of new intercultural performances or other cultural products
- Projects and planning that set the stage for attracting larger funding opportunities and resources
- Projects that focus on the development of the next generation of participants and leaders in cultural organizations
- Projects that create connections between younger and older generations
Application Deadline: Friday, August 10th, 2018
Where to find and submit applications: All applications must be submitted online through the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities’ grants portal.
Notification of awards: September
Grant timeline: Projects may begin in September and must be complete by August 31, 2019.
List of Eligible Applicants:
- Current RIEAP grantees
- Columbian American Cultural Society
- India Association
- Laotian Community Center
- RI Cape Verde Heritage Committee
- RIEAP Alumni Grantees
- Art and Culture of the Americas
- Cambodian Society of RI
- Eastern Medicine Singers
- ECAS Theater
- Hispanic Cultural Arts Committee of RI
- Hmong United Association of RI
- Oasis International
- Progreso Latino
- Puerto Rican Institute for the Arts and Advocacy
- Quisqueya in Action
- RI Black Heritage Society
- RI Black Storytellers
- RI Latino Arts
- RI Indian Council
- Rites and Reason Theatre
- RPM Voices of RI
- Tomaquag Museum
About the RI Expansion Arts Program
Supported by a collaboration between the Rhode Island Foundation, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA), and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities (RICH), the Rhode Island Expansion Arts Program (RIEAP) offers funding and organizational assistance to community-based, culturally diverse arts and cultural organizations. RIEAP provides the skills and tools organizations need to grow as equal partners in the Rhode Island arts and cultural community. RIEAP recognizes the broader role these organizations play in strengthening their communities including cultural preservation, education, and youth development. RIEAP seeks to foster greater connection across cultural heritage, the arts, and humanities as well as leadership and professional development for a broader network of arts and cultural organizations. Click here for more information.
