Pew Center for Arts & Heritage: Evolving Futures Grants - Planning Grant

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage offers Evolving Futures Grants to support organizations in rethinking their business models for future sustainability. These grants provide essential risk-capital for transformative projects that enhance organizational readiness. Eligible applicants must have received previous grants from the Center and demonstrate a commitment to change, with a focus on art and public history programs. This initiative emphasizes research, strategic planning, and feasibility studies to prepare for significant operational shifts.

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 andImplementation.
• Planning Grants

Evolving Futures Planning grants support increasing organizational readiness to make a change to the core operational/business model through research, design, and preparatory work to identify and clarify the needed model change.
Such explorations include -
Work with qualified consultants to shape your vision for business model change.
Research and strategic planning focused on identifying key strategies for business model change as a path towards greater organizational viability.
Feasibility studies.
Other related steps to ready your organization for an Evolving Futures Implementation grant in a future grant cycle.