A new, unique feature of MAP’s grantmaking structure invites artists who receive funding to share the wealth across their personal artistic community.
Here at the MAP Fund, a longstanding national open-call grantmaking organization, we are dedicated to investing in performing artists by expanding opportunities for innovative and underrepresented artists to resource their communities. Often, this support — which includes direct funding for artists’ projects — can make the difference between dreaming and realizing the full potential of their ideas. In recent years, we have advanced this practice with a component intended to broaden investment to artists beyond the boundaries of traditional philanthropy. Starting in 2022 as an artist-directed initiative, we launched our Microgrants Program, through which all MAP grantees were invited to share an additional, unrestricted $1,000 stipend with an artist in their community. Microgrants help artists share the wealth of a MAP award, extend grantees’ agency, and amplify the reach of MAP resources, all by fostering values of mutual recognition, appreciation, and camaraderie among diverse creative communities.
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