NBF Awards Grants to 49 Literary Nonprofits
The National Book Foundation will award $350,000 in capacity-building grants to 49 nonprofit literary arts organizations across the United States. Recipients will receive grants of $5,000 or $10,000 to support projects that build organizational capacity and ensure greater sustainability. The Capacity-Building Grant Program is made possible with funding from the Hawthornden Foundation.
The grant recipients are:
826DC, $10,000
Adirondack Center for Writing, $5,000
Afghan American Artists and Writers Association (AAAWA), $5,000
Cambodian American Literary Arts Association, $5,000
Chicago Humanities, $5,000
Children's Book Project, $5,000
City Arts and Lectures, $10,000
CityLit Project, $5,000
Cleveland Kids' Book Bank, $10,000
Elk River Arts & Lectures, $5,000
Everybody Wins DC, $10,000
Gemini Ink, $10,000
Girls Write Now, $10,000
Inprint, $10,000
Kimbilio, $5,000
Kiwanis Literacy Club Foundation, $5,000
Lighthouse Writers Workshop, $10,000
LitArts RI, $5,000
Literary Cleveland, $10,000
Madison Reading Project, $5,000
MAKE Literary Productions, NFP, $5,000
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, $10,000
Mississippi Book Festival, $10,000
Nathaniel Gadsden's Writers Wordshop, $5,000
Nebraska Writers Collective (NWC), $10,000
Northern Arizona Book Festival, $5,000
Pen Parentis, $5,000
Planting People Growing Justice Leadership Institute, $5,000
Podium RVA, $5,000
Poetry Society of New York, $5,000
Rhode Island Center for the Book, $5,000
Short Run Seattle, $5,000
Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center, $5,000
Speculative Literature Foundation, $5,000
Teachers and Writers Collaborative, $10,000
Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, $5,000
Texas Book Festival, $10,000
The Flow Chart Foundation, $5,000
The Muse Writers Center, $10,000
The PEN/Faulkner Foundation, $10,000
The Porch Writers’ Collective, $10,000
The Word, A Storytelling Sanctuary, $5,000
The Writer's Center, $10,000
Torch Literary Arts, $5,000
Tuleburg Press, $5,000
Tulsa Literary Coalition, $10,000
Woodland Pattern, $10,000
Writers & Books, $10,000
Writers in Baltimore Schools, $5,000
The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) will also be awarding capacity-building grants to 46 nonprofit literary magazines and presses across the US through a similar program. To learn more about CLMP’s grantees, visit their website.
