Deadline: Ongoing

Is a loan right for your creative business or nonprofit? Check out a recording of our April webinar with lenders and creatives talking you through the process of thinking through and applying for a loan.

Deadline: December 18

The Illinois Arts Council provides funding for artists working to preserve and pass on traditional practices important to the artists’ community, heritage, and identity. Mentors will receive $4,000, while apprentices receive $1,000; each must submit their own application.

Learn more here. Plus, watch a webinar recording with more information about the grant or attend a drop-in info session December 10th.

Deadline: December 20

The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) grants between $15,000 and $200,000 to help local governments, not-for-profit organizations, local promotion groups, and for-profit businesses develop or improve tourism attractions. 

Learn more here.

Deadline: January 10, 2025

Opportunity for Illinois professional artists to create permanent original public art for the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice Monarch Youth Center in Lincoln, Illinois. Total artwork budget is $22,000. 

Learn more here.

Deadline: January 16, 2025

Through fellowships to published translators, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English. Translation projects should be of interest for their literary excellence and merit. The NEA encourages projects that feature languages, perspectives, and writers that are not well represented in English, as well as work that has not previously been translated into English. More details here.

Deadline: February 12, 2025

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)’s Landmarks of American History and Culture program supports a series of workshops to enhance how educators incorporate place-based approaches to humanities teaching and scholarship.

More details here.