The Foundation Center
The Foundation Center is one of the oldest professional organizations for grant makers and grant seekers. Their website offers a free online database of grants organizations, private and public. You can do key-word searches to find possible funders for your project. There are more opportunities than ever for individuals seeking support for writing and publishing projects. The Foundation Center's website is filled with resources for the fund-seeker...tips on developing proposals, listings of RFPs (requests for proposals), and the kind of information that can inform the beginner. If you want to dig deep, you might want to go for the subscription option, but poke around for free to start.
When I began writing grant proposals over 30 years ago, grants for individuals were rare. Today there are more and more opportunities for the creative individual to access funding for projects, either through grants from public or private foundations, or through social media powered crowdfunding applications. We live in an entrepreneurial society, and if we're willing to think like entrepreneurs, we can realize our creative goals. I say goals instead of dreams, because a goal is an outcome we expect to reach, a dream is a place we go when we're asleep.
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