Asian Women Giving Circle RFP 2025

The Asian Women Giving Circle (AWGC) believes culture is an essential part of any strategy for social change. We support projects led by Asian American women or gender-expansive people in NYC that harness the power of arts and culture to:

• Bring about progressive social transformation.
• Raise awareness and catalyze action around critical issues that affect Asian American women, girls, gender-expansive people and families.
• Highlight and promote their central role as leaders, creators, developers and managers of these projects.

In this grants cycle, we anticipate that 6-8 project grants will be awarded, contingent on available funding. The maximum grant amount is $8,000. To see past funded projects, visit our Projects.

Requirements

Applications are reviewed by AWGC members who select a shortlist of finalists. We then encourage our broader donor community to vote via online ballot on this finalist list and make our final decision once the ballots are in.

In the interest of fairness and transparency, If you have made a donation in the year that you are also an applicant, you will not be able to vote via online ballot.

Applications will be reviewed with the following criteria:

• The project is led by AAPI women or gender-expansive people and/or has AAPI women and girls and/or gender-expansive people in central roles in the project’s conceptual framework, design and implementation.
• The arts and social change are related in an integral way.
• Has a clear and persuasive strategy to move hearts and minds toward progressive social change and a strong potential to do so.
• Raises awareness and/or intervenes around critical issues affecting AAPI women, girls, and/or gender-expansive people and families, e.g., human rights, bias, injustice, gender-based violence, immigrant rights.
• Demonstrates a deep commitment to NYC-based communities.

Application Instructions