Status: Open
An opportunity for previous ValleyCreates grantees.
Please confirm your eligibility below.
The Project Evolution Grant (PEG) approach is multi-faceted and aims to support previous ValleyCreates grantees in the advancement of a project in whatever state it’s in, whether it be the early ideation phase, creation/producing, or presenting/ exhibiting/ touring (or whatever the final stage of realization may be).
Grant Recipients Receive:
- A $5,000 grant
- Up to 2 hours of 1-on-1 support from Assets for Artists roster of coaches
- A semi-monthly online peer group of fellow PEG awardees, facilitated by A4A, to discuss project challenges and brainstorm solutions
- Welcome and graduation celebrations
- CFWM’s larger ValleyCreates community programming (opportunities to regularly connect, both virtually and in-person, with other members of the cohort for support and resource sharing.)
Applicants must submit details of an existing project in any of the following stages:
- Early Stage: visioning, research, ideation, project planning & design
- Creation & Production: work in the making stage
- Presentation & Implementation: ready or close for an audience; to show, exhibit, perform, tour, publish, record, etc.
Who Can Apply?
- Artists that live or have studio space in Hampden, Hampshire or Franklin County; and
- Are a prior ValleyCreates grantee and completed the program from one of our four Working Capital/Capacity Building grant rounds; OR
- An artist that has attended our two-day Artist Community Project Grant workshop held in January 2020.
- If you are a former PEG awardee, complete a final check-in with ValleyCreates staff before March 25, 2025.
- Artists who DID NOT receive two or more PEG grants.
Please Note: You cannot apply with a project that is primarily for a 501(c)(3) organization. These funds are intended to support individual artists. The Community Foundation has other funding opportunities that support nonprofits.
Questions?
To inquire about this grant opportunity, please contact Steph Reyes, Program Officer at sreyes@communityfoundation.org.
Project Evolution Grant (PEG) is funded by the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts’s ValleyCreates Initiative and is administered by Assets for Artists.
Past Grantees
View the full list of artists who received Project Evolution Grant funding in 2022 and 2023.
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