ASIAN WOMEN GIVING CIRCLE, REQUEST FOR GRANT PROPOSALS 2022

Asian Women Giving Circle (AWGC) believes culture is an essential part of any strategy for social change. We support Asian American women-led organizations and individual artists in NYC who are using arts and culture to bring about progressive social transformation and raise awareness and catalyze action around critical issues that affect Asian American women, girls and families.

NOTE: This year AWGC is piloting a funding strategy that awards $8,000 grants to 9-10 projects contingent on available funding. For a description of past project grants, please visit our website: www.asianwomengivingcircle.org

Requirements

This RFP is open to both 501©(3) organizations and individual artists. Applicants can be at any stage in their careers but must have a track record of developed work that demonstrates their capacity to complete the proposed project and manage the funds requested.

PLEASE NOTE:

• Artists and collectives that are not 501©(3)s must apply under a fiscal sponsor that is a 501©(3) organization, which they must list in the fiscal sponsorship section of the application.
• Failure to provide 501©(3) documentation or to provide a fiscal sponsor with the same will automatically disqualify the application.

What We Do Not Fund

• Capital or endowment campaigns
• Equipment purchases
• Support to address financial crises or shortfalls
• Purely personal works of artistic expression with little or no social justice impact
• Documentation that is primarily of cultural events
• Projects that lack a social change analysis or social justice focus
• Student productions or projects associated with a degree program and academic credit

Important Dates

• Notification of Grant Awards will be made by mid-June 2022
• All grantees will be required to submit a narrative and financial report at the end of the grant year (June 2023)

Application Instructions

All applications are reviewed by AWGC’s Steering Committee. A short-list of applicants is advanced to our broader network of donors who are invited to vote for the projects they believe should be funded. The final grant allocation decisions are made by the Steering Committee and submitted to our fiscal sponsor, the Ms. Foundation for Women, which disburses the grants solely at our direction.

We are looking for projects that:

• Are led by AAPI women and/or have AAPI women and girls in central roles in the project’s conceptual framework, design and implementation.
• Harness the arts and social change in an integrated way.
• Make a clear case for the theory of social justice change envisioned by the project, based on the applicants’ own criteria for defining and measuring impact.
• Raise awareness and/or intervene around critical issues affecting AAPI women, girls and families, e.g., human rights, bias, injustice, gender-based violence, immigrant rights.
• Demonstrate a deep commitment to NYC-based communities.
• Demonstrate a vision and plan for using the grant funds effectively and for completing the project.
• Demonstrates exceptional creativity, artistically and/or through social intervention.

Your proposal must be submitted through the Ms. Foundation’s online application process using the following link to access the application form:
https://www.grantrequest.com/SID_829?SA=SNA&FID=35103

You can also access the application form by visiting the Ms. Foundation for Women’s website: https://forwomen.org/grants-2/awgc-2019-rfp/