Pew Center for Arts & Heritage: Evolving Futures Grants- Implementation

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage offers Evolving Futures Grants to support organizations in implementing strategic changes to their operational models, enhancing viability and sustainability. These grants are for entities that have identified critical operational challenges and developed actionable plans. Eligible organizations must have a history of project grants from Pew, be located in the Philadelphia region, and primarily serve public audiences, among other criteria.

The Center offers Evolving Futures grants to eligible previous grantees in an effort to acknowledge the challenges facing the cultural sector and the critical need to evolve traditional business models.
These grants provide risk capital to assist you in making major shifts to the way your organization will operate in the future.
Organizations applying for Evolving Futures grants will be asked to describe the "what/why/how and with whom" of the work proposed; the projected outcomes; their institutional commitment to business model change; and their own contributions of finances and staff-time toward achieving stated goals.
Proposals for these grants must be part of a strategic vision designed to make critical changes to your core operational/business model, resulting in demonstrably greater viability and sustainability for your organization.
Evolving Futures grants are offered in two categories:

• Planning and Implementation.
• Implementation

Implementation grants are designed for organizations that have already identified and committed to the critical operational challenge that exists for the organization and have completed preparatory steps and structured plans to enact the operational change.
Evolving Futures Implementation grants support actionable plans, resulting from preparatory work, to make an identified change to the core operational/business model. Readiness, exploratory research, and organization-wide commitment to change should precede your application for an Evolving Futures Implementation grant. Examples of implementation projects include but are not limited to—
Formalized strategic alliances.Mergers, including with for-profit entities.Business evolution that commits to bold, new, more inclusive, and equitable models for the field.When workforce adaptation/staff restructuring is part of a proposal, the applicant should speak to new or continuing efforts around diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion and how they are important and intrinsic to achieving future sustainability.
Multi-Organization Implementation Grants
Some applicants may decide that their evolutions would be best served by co-applying. Multiple organizations may submit a single application to propose a significant strategic alliance.