Microgrants
2024 Intercultural Microgrant Program
About the Program
The Kentucky Intercultural Microgrant Program is a seed grant to support two or more individuals or organizations collaborating across distance, difference, or sector on projects that celebrate and connect Kentucky's people and places.
Launched with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, Kentucky Waterways Alliance, Fund for the Arts, the Monument Workshop at UK, the Josh May Memorial Fund, and individual donors, the 2024 Microgrant Program invests in a series of seed grants (awards from $250-2000) to support short-term projects that foster dialogue, connection, or collaboration among Kentuckians from disparate backgrounds, identities, or experiences. Projects that involve diverse partners and invite the public to participate are preferred.
Applications closed Tuesday, September 10.
Artists Respond: Community, Culture, and Commonality in the Commonwealth
In partnership with the Creative Change Coalition, Artists Respond: Community, Culture, and Commonality in the Commonwealth will offer grants for up to ten artists and/or teams to develop creative work that addresses rural-urban connection, interdependence, or solidarity in Kentucky. We aim for this work to uplift the power of arts and culture to address problems and combat a national narrative that too often centers on division and divide, especially in election years.
Applications closed on July 22. An informational webinar was held on Tuesday, July 2nd. You can watch the recording here.
2023 Intercultural Microgrant Projects
Launched in 2023, the Intercultural Microgrant Program supports two or more individuals or organizations collaborating across distance, difference, or sector on projects that celebrate and connect Kentucky's people and places.
Alumni graduate from the RUX leadership cohort with ideas for new projects that have been co-developed with members of their RUX consultancy teams, but we’ve never had the resources to directly invest in these ideas.
Thanks to support from the Pluralism and Civil Exchange program of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and the Kentucky Foundation for Women, we launched this microgrant program to invest in our alumni network to employ the skills they’ve learned in the RUX program to the benefit of their state and local communities.
Recipients receive seed funding, technical assistance, and peer support in exchange for a short creative product (video, photo, artwork, writing, or audio storytelling) that tells the story of their project.