PND - RFPs - Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Announces New Technology Funding Program for Jazz

The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation is accepting applications for Jazz.NEXT, a program developed in partnership with the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to support planning and the implementation of fully developed projects that make innovative use of new technologies in audience development, communications, distribution, marketing, and network building for jazz performance.

Planning grants of up to $25,000 each will be awarded to nonprofit organizations and individuals working to develop concepts, identify resources, expertise, and partnerships (when applicable), and compile detailed financial plans. Applications for planning grants will be accepted for consideration only in the first grant round of the program.

Implementation grants, generally ranging from $10,000 to $75,000 each, will be awarded to projects offering the most promising approaches to jazz audience development, communications, distribution, marketing, and network building that utilize new technologies developed either through a Jazz.NEXT planning grant or conceived outside of the program, but deemed ready for immediate implementation. Applicants may apply for an implementation grant in either the first or second grant round of the program.

To be eligible, applicants must be jazz artists who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States, or be a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization (or an organizations with an eligible fiscal sponsor) with a history of programming jazz or providing services to jazz artists or jazz organizations. Applicants must also have demonstrated some prior experience working with technology in addressing audience development, communications, creation and presentation, marketing and promotion, networking, or other capacity-building endeavors. Applicants may partner with other jazz artists or organizations on their planning and implementation projects, but only one artist or organization can act as the applicant.

Applications in Round I can be submitted for planning or implementation grants. Applicants are limited to one application for consideration (either a planning or implementation grant). (Deadline: July 6, 2009.) Applications in Round II are for implementation grants only. (Deadline: July 1, 2010.)

Visit the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Web site for complete program information.

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