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As a grant writer, one of the occupational hazards is frequently daydreaming of writing a grant that would allow me to quit my day job and do something creative for a year (or two). Here are a few grants of just that type:

USA Fellows

United States Artists (USA) exists to nurture, support, and strengthen the work of America’s finest living artists. Through our grants program, we support a diverse array of visual, literary, performing, design, media, and crafts and traditional artists.

The first three years of the USA Fellows program will be considered a pilot phase. During that time, USA will distribute 150 unrestricted fellowship grants of $50,000 each to artists across the United States.

The program supports artists in all career stages, including emerging and mid-career artists, as well as individuals who have achieved master artist status. The fellowships will be awarded across a broad array of disciplines.

Puffin Foundation Fellowships

Funding supports emerging artists in the area of art, music, theater, dance, photography, and literature whose work, due to subject matter and philosophy, has difficulty being aired.

Echoing Green Fellowships for Social Entrepreneurs

Fellowships provide financial and technical support to visionary leaders with innovative ideas for creating social change, affording individuals the opportunity to develop and test their ideas. Echoing Green seeks to identify, fund, and support the world’s most exceptional emerging leaders and the organizations they launch. Through a two-year fellowship program, fellows work in the community and launch, manage and grow organizations that implement and continually expand their ideas for creating lasting social change.

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