Rapid Response Grants
Rapid Response grants support our field partners to make meaning, shape public imagination, and build narrative power during peak and time-sensitive cultural moments. Funded projects include cultural organizing initiatives, pop culture campaigns or other activations, gatherings/convenings, cultural analytics and research, the design and/or implementation of narrative strategies, or public spectacles (for instance, flash mobs, large-scale art installations, or red carpet takeovers).
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Grant Eligibility & SELECTION CRITERIA
U.S.-based nonprofits, for-profits, and individuals/organizations with fiscal sponsorship are eligible for Pop Culture Collaborative rapid response grants.
To be considered, proposals must engage, affect, center, and/or support at least one of our multi-community focus areas: people of color, immigrants, refugees, Indigenous peoples, and/or Muslims, particularly those who are women, queer, transgender, and/or disabled. Initiatives with an intersectional and intentional focus on gender justice, LGBTQIA rights, disability, democratic fairness, pluralist values, and economic justice are prioritized.
The following categories are not eligible for Pop Culture Collaborative grants:
- Initiatives outside of the United States.
- Projects that have a narrative change focus but do not incorporate pop culture strategies.
- Projects not designed to reach mass audiences of at least 1 million people, or to create infrastructure or research insights that will support projects that reach this scale.