Jerome Foundation
The Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship supports early-career artists based in Minnesota and New York City who are working in and across multiple artistic fields, including dance; film; literature; music; technology centered arts; theater, performance, and spoken word; and visual arts. In addition to $60,000 ($20,000 each year of the fellowship), Fellows are offered participation in MAP’s SPA Program and a $1,100 stipend for SPA gathering attendance.
Princess Grace Foundation
The Princess Grace Artist Fellowship pairs direct financial support with participation in SPA’s innovative coaching program for early-career artists and artists in artistic transition. Each Princess Grace Artist Fellow receives a $10,000 unrestricted cash grant from the Princess Grace Foundation and a $1,100 stipend for SPA gathering attendance.
Walder Foundation
Walder Foundation’s Platform Awards support and recognize accomplished Chicagoland mid-career music, theater, dance, and interdisciplinary performance artists who enrich the city’s creative and civic landscape through a commitment to honing their craft and meaningful community engagement. Platform Artists are offered participation in MAP’s SPA Program and an in-person SPA gathering in Chicago.
Venturous Theater Fund
The Playwrights International Travel Grant Program provides a $10,000 grant to playwrights for the purposes of international travel, administered by MAP and supported by the Venturous Theater Fund (VTF). The goal of the Playwrights International Travel Grant Program is to offer playwrights the opportunity to further work on a current or envisioned project that will benefit from research, interaction, and understanding of cultures beyond the United States.
ArtsPool
MAP is a proud member of ArtsPool Cooperative. ArtsPool provides innovative, high-quality workforce administration and financial management services to meet the needs of the nonprofit arts field. As a member-owned cooperative, its collaborative approach equips organizations to become more financially and operationally stable, particularly in times of growth, change, and uncertainty.
Artist Relief
From 2020 to 2021, MAP was a proud coalition partner behind Artist Relief, emergency funding and resources for artists in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Artist Relief operated 13 cycles of funding that supported artists with $5,000 emergency relief grants. Coalition partners included Academy of American Poets, Artadia, Creative Capital, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, MAP Fund, YoungArts, and United States Artists. In total, Artist Relief distributed close to $23.4 million in emergency grants to 4,682 artists over 15 months.
Animating Democracy
In 2019, Animating Democracy commissioned Vanessa Whang to write Diving into Racial Equity: The MAP Fund’s Exploration. This case study looks at MAP’s deep examination of one of its foundational priorities—racial equity in arts and culture grantmaking—and ongoing efforts to change practices toward this goal. It also chronicles MAP’s incorporation of Animating Democracy’s Aesthetic Perspectives framework over multiple cycles to help mitigate aesthetic bias in the panel process.
Equity in the Panel Room
In 2017, MAP initiated Equity in the Panel Room (EiPR), a cohort of 12 grantmakers undertaking a yearlong deep-dive into racial equity in the panel process. With a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, this project engaged consultant Ama Codjoe to design a robust research and learning program including conversations, racial justice trainings, and support in operationalizing equity practices. The EiPR cohort published Re:Tool Racial Equity in the Panel Process as a handbook of experiences, tips and resources for grant administrators. The EiPR cohort also offered workshops at national conferences including Grantmakers in the Arts (2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019); Alliance of Artists Communities (2018); National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (2018, 2019); and Americans for the Arts (2019).