Funding
American Society of Media Photographers - Foundation
The ASMP Foundation furthers the American Society of Media Photographers’ goals by offering grants to organizations that support education, or more specifically, the artistic and professional development of media photographers. The foundation’s page lists current grant recipients and specifies the application deadlines. It also makes an appeal for support for this worthy cause, because donations “can help improve art, craft and profession of photography is real and enduring ways.” Founded in 1944, at a time when print photographers had little financial or professional organization, ASMP was created to defend the rights and interests of professional photographers. The society advocates for copyright protection, business education, professional standards and fellowship, and against work–for–hire and other abuses.
Creative Capital
This New York City-based nonprofit acts as a catalyst for the development of adventurous and imaginative ideas by supporting artists who pursue innovation in form and/or content in the performing and visual arts, film and video, and in emerging fields. Creative Capital works in partnership with the funded artists, providing advisory services and professional development assistance along with multi-faceted financial aid and promotional support throughout the life of each Creative Capital project.
Foundation Center
Yes, miraculously, there is an organization that collects, organizes and communicates all that seemingly secret information about philanthropy. Aside from its searchable database of funders and a host of other helpful finding aids, the Centre has education and training programs to help people navigate, and even master the grant-seeking process. This is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to get a project off the ground.
Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
A gold mine for grant-seekers, the Foundation Center offers detailed descriptions of more than 6,000 foundation programs that fund students, artists, researchers and other grant-seekers, all organized in an efficient online database. A monthly subscription fee opens the door to this information bank, which is updated quarterly, and includes tutorials and search tips.
Fund Raiser Cyberzine
A genial, low-tech site that offers articles, fundraising tips, regular columns and resource links.
Funders Online
Photographers and others seeking the funds to bring their Europe-based project to life can find advice at this simple, straightforward Web site, run by the European Foundation Centre. It offers tips on how to locate appropriate funders, write a proposal, and even build a Web site using Funders Online’s user-friendly tool (free of charge). Funders Online also offers links to other resources including funders, nonprofit journals, and philanthropy research organizations.
NANPA Foundation Grants & Awards
The North American Nature Photographers Association Foundation offers three grants to help promote and support the increasingly important role nature photographers are playing in documenting and communicating the state of our rapidly changing natural environment. As one of the Association’s central goals is education, the Janie Moore Green grant is $1,000 prize awarded annually to a student currently enrolled in or having applied to an institution of higher education specializing in the study of photography, while the Russ Kinne Recognition Grant is meant to recognize the work of NANPA members who share professional expertise for the education and betterment of all members. Finally, the $5,000 Philip Hyde grant is meant to further the work of a NANPA member who is actively pursuing completion of a peer-reviewed environmental project that reflects NANPA’s mission.