What We Fund

AWGC’s priority will be to fund Asian American women-led projects that use the tools of culture, the arts and education to raise awareness and catalyze action around critical issues that impact Asian American communities. Our grants seek to build community and create social justice through programs and projects that combine the arts with activism, and which highlight and promote women’s central role in their leadership, creation, development and management. We seek to fund projects that identify and address injustice within established social systems, institutions or the broader community, and that inspire and encourage members of the community to become active social change agents. AWGC’s Arts and Activism grants will focus on works and projects that advance gender equity in our cultural, artistic, intellectual and political spheres, and that provide a forum for broader discussions of the urgent social justice issues of our day. Examples of community-based programs or projects highlighting traditionally marginalized and disenfranchised Asian American communities are those that work with recent immigrants, LGBTQ, the elderly, youth, etc. We anticipate that 4-6 grants will be awarded during this cycle, contingent on available funding. The maximum grant amount will be $15,000.

What We Do Not Fund

Capital campaigns, equipment purchases, endowments, financial crises or shortfalls, purely personal works with little or no social justice impact, documentation that is primarily of cultural events, personalities or performances which do not provide a progressive analysis or a social justice focus, public television or radio station production, artist’s office, studio or home, student productions or projects associated with a degree program and academic credit, or projects that receive direct financial support from an educational institution. PLEASE NOTE: Applicants must work within the five boroughs of New York City and have a not-for-profit 501(c)3 status or have a fiscal sponsor with such status.