Springboard for the Arts
29 Grants from 2006 - 2023
Springboard for the Arts supports artists with tools to make a living and to make a positive difference for communities. They provide business development assistance, create toolkits for artists, support rural arts development efforts, offer fiscal sponsorship and operate leadership programs and fellowships. They have offices in Fergus Falls and Saint Paul. Ecosystem grants provide general operating support for organizations that support others to solve problems in their communities.
Grants received
Springboard for the Arts supports artists with tools to make a living and to make a positive difference for communities. They provide business development assistance, create toolkits for artists, support rural arts development efforts, offer fiscal sponsorship and operate leadership programs and fellowships. They have offices in Fergus Falls and Saint Paul. Ecosystem grants provide general operating support for organizations that support others to solve problems in their communities.
To test shifts in opportunity, power and narrative through a Guaranteed Income Pilot for artists, culture bearers and creatives in St. Paul, MN
Sponsorship of Rural Arts and Culture Recovery Network, bringing together rural artists and creative leaders who are reimagining the future of rural America, and providing a space for exchanging ideas, tools, experiences and perspectives needed to creatively address rural community challenges
Sponsorship of Creative People Power: Arts and Community at the Center
To provide financial support for artists and culture bearers who are impacted by COVID-19
This Ecosystem Grant provides general operating support for Springboard for the Arts to help advance its charitable mission in MN, ND, SD and the 23 Native nations that share the same geography
Develop and present the session, 'Anyone Can Do It: Connect To Your Body's Wisdom To Be More Present, Fearless, and Joyful,' after lunch at bushCON 2020 on October 5, 2020
Develop and present the session, 'Creative People Power in Your Community,' twice at bushCON 2020 on October 5, 2020
Sponsorship of the Rural Arts and Culture Summit
Operate the Creative Community Leadership Institute (CCLI)
This Ecosystem Grant provides general operating support for Springboard for the Arts to help advance its charitable mission in MN, ND, SD and the 23 Native Nations that share the same geography
Identify, recruit, engage and support a cohort of 25 leaders to attend bushCONNECT on October 1, 2018
Develop and present the session, 'Reckoning: Racism and the Body,' three times at bushCONNECT on October 1, 2018
In recognition of winning a 2018 Bush Prize for Community Innovation, this grant will advance the organization’s charitable mission to engage communities in the arts
Sponsorship of Art & Resistance III and IV
Sponsorship of TEDxMinneapolis 2017 and TEDxMinneapolisWomen
Support Springboard for the Arts book event featuring Nina Simon, author of “The Art of Relevance,” targeted toward museum professionals and the general public
Enhance rural infrastructure to integrate art into problem-solving and build new economic mechanisms to support artists
Springboard for the Arts will identify artists involved in Roots of Rondo and provide them honorariums for presenting their work at the 2016 Grantmakers in the Arts Annual Conference
Sponsorship of Rural Arts and Culture Summit
This Ecosystem Grant provides general operating support for Springboard for the Arts to help advance its charitable mission
Identify, recruit, engage and support a cohort of 20 leaders to attend bushCONNECT 2015, and present ReadyGo as an all-day activity for bushCONNECT attendees
Develop and present a 45-person, 60-minute 'Improv Crash Course' session for bushCONNECT on May 4, 2015
Identify, recruit, engage and support a cohort of 20 leaders to attend bushCONNECT on May 9, 2016
Recruit and provide support to attendees of bushCONNECT on May 12, 2014
Co-create programming for bushCONNECT on May 12, 2014
Sponsorship of the Rural Arts and Culture Summit
For Artist Organizers: a pilot program to mobilize artists around community challenges
To plan and deliver services to artists and arts organizations in Greater Minnesota and the Dakotas