March 2025 Funding Opportunities for Nonprofits, Poets, Authors/Writers, and More!
Enter this month with abundant opportunities!
Happy Black History Month and (early) Women’s History Month! 🎉 ✨
March is chock-full of funding opportunities for everything from artists, journalists, nonprofits, and so much more.
Now, let’s get into this newsletter with (124) grants for creatives totaling approximately $1,018,799. Plus, there are still (109) grants with February deadlines, too. Click here for our February 2025 grant list - we are adding more funding opportunities weekly.
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Helpful Tip: Our newsletter is chronologically ordered from March 1st to March 31st.
To help you save time, we also call out who grants are for in titles.
We will continuously share more March grants as we find them. Be on the lookout for our weekly emails with updates (typically on Mondays).
Artists: #42 (Contemporary), #43 (Kentucky), #45 (Kentucky), #46 (Kentucky), #48 (Contemporary), #57 (Washington State), #62 (Craft), #64, #65 (Santa Cruz County), #71, #78 (Minnesota), #82(Kentucky), #84, #92(Ceramics), #106 (Youth), #107 (Native), #111 (Kentucky), #114, #117 (Native American)
Arts Organizations: #65 (Santa Cruz County)
Authors/Writers: #39, #50 (Black), #88, #91, #101
Broadcasters: #52 (High School Senior), #108, #109
Choreographers: #47
Comic Book Creators: #86
Community Programs: #56
Dancers: #47, #63 (New York City), #74 (Asian American - New York City-Based)
Entrepreneurs: #55
Filmmakers: #89, #93
HBCU Students: #98
Humanities: #104 (Virginia)
Journalists: #51 (High School Senior), #53 (Undergraduate Student), #54 (Graduate Student), #70, #76, #83, #100 (Black), #110, #115
Media Maker: #40
Musicians: #73 (Asian American - New York City-Based)
Nonprofits: #38 (Rhode Island), #41 (South Carolina), #43 (Kentucky), #44 (Kentucky), #59 (Illinois), #60 (Illinois), #61 (Illinois), #66, #72 (Bay Area), #77 (Oregon), #80, #94, #102, #105 (New York State), #112, #113 (Connecticut)
Photographers: #49
People with Disabilities: #67 (Colorado)
Poets: #50 (Black), #85, #90, #95
Racial Equity Leaders: #103
Small Businesses: #58 (Black-Owned), #81
Start-Ups: #58 (Black-Owned), #97
Veteran Services: #75
Visual Artists: #68, #69, 96, #116
Women-Owned Businesses: #87
Women’s Scholarships: #99
Youth Leadership: #79
[FEATURED GRANTS]
1. Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism
Are you a journalist ready to take your career to the next level? Spend a year at the University of Colorado as a Ted Scripps Fellow. You’ll deepen your understanding of environmental issues, hone your craft, and enjoy a break from deadlines while living at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. As a fellow, you’ll audit classes and pursue an independent project of your design. Fellows receive a stipend of $80,000 and will travel (expenses paid) to the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference. At a minimum, applicants must have five years of full-time professional journalism experience and a BA or BS college degree.
Deadline: March 1, 2025
2. Plutus Foundation Personal Finance Content Creator Grant
This opportunity provides grant money and resources to foster opportunities for the financial media to create, develop, and administer community-based programs that enhance financial literacy, education, and empowerment. The Foundation makes two or more grants available to members of the personal finance media during RFP (request for proposal) windows. These grants help content creators provide community-based financial education and/or financial literacy programs. Grants are awarded to members of the independent financial media who work to create financial literacy programs in their community. Members of the financial media, including but not limited to bloggers, podcasters, vloggers, journalists, speakers, and authors, are invited to apply. Educators are also eligible. Each recipient in this round will receive $2,000.
Deadline: March 3, 2025
3. [NEW] The 2025 Revolutionary Storyteller Grant - For Photographers
This grant is for photographers who collaborate with communities to actively create the futures we seek in the name of collective liberation. This opportunity seeks photographers with strong relationships with the people and works they document. Regarding topics and themes, think land and water protection, Indigenous science and wisdom, climate change, regeneration, and everything intersecting in between, including human rights, Indigenous sovereignty, land return, and more. Mixed-media photographers are also welcomed. $5,000 will be awarded.
Deadline: March 5, 2025
4. Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award - For African American Poets
This opportunity offers a prize of $500 and publication for a poetry collection by an African American poet. Submissions should consist of two manuscript copies ranging from 60 to 90 pages. There is no entry fee for this competition.
Deadline: March 15, 2025
5. The Richard G. Zimmerman Scholarship for Journalism - For High School Seniors
This opportunity is named for a long-time National Press Club member who died in 2008 and endowed a scholarship for high school seniors who wish to pursue a career in journalism. Recipients receive a one-time scholarship of $5,000. Applicants must be high school seniors applying for admission to an accredited college or university in the U.S., have a 3.0 grade point average or higher, and plan to pursue a career in journalism.
Deadline: March 16, 2025
6. The Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship - For Emerging Writers of Color
Writers of color have knowledge and experiences that differ from the dominant Eurocentric ones, and their perspectives give art produced by marginalized communities the depth of attention and consideration it deserves. The fellowship seeks to encourage critics of color starting out in the field to continue writing about works from their own cultural and political perspectives, enriching and broadening cultural criticism as a practice and profession. By supporting and highlighting these voices, the fellowship seeks to broaden public discourse and strengthen participation in cultural conversations by diverse communities.
This year’s fellowship will provide $5,000 unrestricted awards to two emerging writers of color who write critically about music. Applicants should have less than two years of publication experience, live in the United States or be citizens of the United States abroad, and identify as members of a community with ancestry in one of the original peoples of Africa, Asia, the Americas, Oceania, or the Pacific Islands.
Deadline: March 17, 2025
7. [NEW] ISSOS's Creative Writing Teacher Program
Teach students to understand the forces of creative language to produce original poems, scripts, and short stories. Through your experience, students will develop their love of writing and use the world around them as inspiration. You will provide support, inspiration, and critical evaluation to improve the quality of students' writing.
You will have your own class of students aged 13-18. Classes are kept small to provide individual attention and create an encouraging and supportive environment for learning. They provide teachers with a guide on what each lesson should achieve, but they ask you to bring your experience and personality to each class and create your own stimulating and challenging lesson plans.
Positions are fully residential, and all the staff teams will be actively involved in the activities put on for the students. Accommodations, all meals, and a salary are provided. Unfortunately, they cannot obtain visas for these types of roles in the UK, so if you are applying to work at the UK campuses, you must already have the right to work in the UK. £4100 for the entire contract is provided.
Deadline: June 1, 2025