Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and administered by Creative Capital, the MAP Fund works to help build a risk-welcoming contemporary performance field by providing project-specific funding to playwrights, choreographers, directors, composers, and performers experimenting in any performance tradition or discipline.

MAP seeks especially to support work that brings insight to the issue of cultural difference or the concept of “other,” be that in class, gender, generation, ethnicity, or formal consideration.

Letters of inquiry and full applications must come from organizations based in the United States that have current nonprofit 501(c)(3) federal tax status. Unincorporated artists or ensembles may apply to MAP through an eligible fiscal sponsor. Organizations and artists must demonstrate at least two years’ professional experience.

MAP supports only projects that include a live performance. Eligible projects must not have premiered anywhere in the world before the first date of the current grant activities period. The touring or documentation of work that has already premiered is not eligible for funding. MAP does not fund projects whose main purpose is educational (e.g., art-in-the-schools or artistic training programs). MAP does not fund general operating expenses or festivals or contests.

Up to forty grants ranging from $10,000 to $45,000 each will be awarded per annual cycle. The average award amount is $25,000. MAP supports most direct costs related to the conception, creation and premiere of a new work. These include but are not limited to commissioning fees and artists’ salaries, research costs, rehearsal and workshop expenses, promotion, and audience outreach and production costs up to and including the premiere run of the work.

Visit the MAP Fund Web site for complete program information.

Contact:
Link to Complete RFP

Letter of Inquiry Deadline: October 19, 2009

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