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*** Funding Arts Network and Knight Foundation Announce New Art Award for a Public Performance in Miami-Dade

***National Endowment for the Humanities and Institute of Museum and Library Services Invite Grant Applications for New Digital Innovation Program

***National Foundation for Jewish Culture Accepting Applications for Jewish Documentary Filmmaking Fund
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Funding Arts Network and Knight Foundation Announce New Art Award for a Public Performance in Miami-Dade
Deadline: March 2007

The Miami-based Funding Arts Network ( http://www.fundingartsnetwork.org/ ) has announced the newly created Knight Foundation New Work Award for a performing or visual art work of the highest artistic merit to be performed or exhibited in Miami-Dade County. The New Works Award is in addition to the annual grants which FAN awards.

The award, which will be for $50,000 a year in 2007 and 2008, is made possible by a $100,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation ( http://www.knightfdn.org/ ). The award is open to all arts organizations that have previously been FAN grantees. Selection criteria include artistic merit and creativity in reaching out to a broad audience.

Applications will be available on the FAN Web site in early January. RFP Announcement: http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10005725/knightfdn

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National Endowment for the Humanities and Institute of Museum and Library Services Invite Grant Applications for New Digital Innovation Program
Deadline: March 27, 2007

The Institute of Museum and Library Services ( http://www.imls.gov/ ) and the National Endowment for the Humanities ( http://www.neh.gov/ ) invite applications to a new digital humanities grant competi- tion. The new program, "Advancing Knowledge: The IMLS/NEH Digital Partnership," seeks applications for innovative, collaborative humanities projects using the latest digital technologies for the benefit of the American public, humanities scholarship, and the nation's cultural community. Through this new partnership, NEH and IMLS will help teachers, scholars, museums, and libraries take advantage of developing technology. Successful projects funded through this partnership will explore new ways to share, examine, and interpret humanities collections in a digital environment and develop new uses and audiences for existing digital resources.

Any U.S. nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status is eligible, as are state and local governmental agencies and tribal governments. Individuals are not eligible to apply. Collaboration is a requirement of the program, and an application must include at least one library, museum, or archive as an integral member of the project team to be eligible. Potential partners could also include universities, state humanities councils and other cultural organizations, or private-sector organizations, as appropriate.

Awards normally are for two years and typically range from $50,000 to a maximum of $350,000 each. Nonprofit institutions interested in applying can find guidelines at the NEH Web site.

RFP Link: http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10005726/neh

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National Foundation for Jewish Culture Accepting Applications for Jewish Documentary Filmmaking Fund
Deadline: March 8, 2007

A program of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture ( http://www2.jewishculture.org/ ), the Fund for Jewish Documen- tary Filmmaking is designed to support the creation of original documentary films and videos that promote thoughtful considera- tion of Jewish history, culture, identity, and contemporary issues among diverse public audiences. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents who have creative, editorial, and budgetary control of the proposed pro- ject and who own the copyright of the completed film or video.

All applicants must submit one completed work for which they had primary responsibility. Priority in funding will be given to those works-in-progress which combine intellectual clarity with creative use of the medium, can be completed within one year of the award, are standard one-hour or half-hour broadcast length, and are likely to be broadcast.

Projects must be in production at the time of application; funding will not be provided for research, script development, or other pre-production expenses. No grant will exceed $50,000 or 50 percent of the total project budget, whichever is less. Most grant awards are expected to fall in the $20,000 to $30,000 range.

Visit the National Foundation for Jewish Culture Web site for complete program information and application materials.

RFP Link: http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10005727/jewishculture

For additional RFPs in Arts and Culture, visit: http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_arts.jhtml