Herzfeld Foundation: Arts Awareness Grant

The Herzfeld Foundation's Arts Awareness Grant aims to enhance awareness of visual and performing arts in metro Milwaukee. Grants, up to $100,000, support strategies that expand or innovate coverage of the arts through various media. Eligible applicants include 501(c)(3) organizations focused on sustaining journalistic endeavors that address challenges faced by artists. The foundation prioritizes collaborative efforts and innovative reporting, continuing Richard and Ethel Herzfeld's legacy of enriching the cultural landscape of the greater Milwaukee area.

Grants are intended to promote awareness of the visual and performing arts in metro Milwaukee – including the value of such arts, the challenges facing artists and arts organizations, and potential solutions to those challenges – through newspaper, news website, radio, or television reporting. They will be awarded to organizations that propose strategies to expand their existing coverage of the arts or initiate new or different forms of coverage.
Funding
Maximum grant is $100,000. One- and two-year grant proposals will be considered.

Eligibility

The Herzfeld Foundation awards grants to non-profit organizations that are tax exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.Grant recipients must have 501c(3) nonprofit status or must have a fiscal agent that has such status. Media organizations that gather and disseminate news to the general population are eligible for grants to enhance journalistic coverage of the arts in metro Milwaukee.Funding is restricted to Wisconsin-based organizations with an emphasis on those that benefit the people of the Greater Milwaukee area.

Ineligibility

This program does not fund capital campaigns, general operations, fundraising/gala events, or scholarship programs.