Deadline: 15 May 2025
The Working Assumptions is seeking applications for its Project Grant Program to support visual storytelling projects that inspire audiences and/or participants to look at family in new, meaningful ways.
They invite proposals that employ photography or photo-based art for journalistic, artistic, therapeutic, educational, and research purposes. Their funding is unrestricted, allowing recipients complete creative freedom—provided that the project is intended for public consumption and that work on it began prior to the grant application deadline.
Benefits
- Collaborative goal setting
- Quarterly check-ins
- Tailored support based on project needs
- Support for promotion of projects
Funding Information
- Working Assumptions awards six $10,000 project grants.
Eligibility Criteria
- This opportunity is for individuals and/or collaborations (not organizations), including artists, journalists, educators, therapists, researchers, and creatives across disciplines with a focus on visual storytelling and family.
- Residency: Applicants must be residents or citizens of the United States, have a U.S. tax ID number, and have a U.S. bank account.
- Age: Applicants must be at least 18 years old.
- Eligibility: Applicants cannot have been employees or grant recipients of Working Assumptions within the last two years.
- They give preference to projects that:
- Are based on first-person narration and/or on long-term, intertwined relationships with the photographic subjects
- Build on earlier, related work by the applicant
- Challenge their assumptions about what family, caregiving, and interdependence look like.
Application Requirements
- Required information:
- Personal details
- Resume/CV
- Examples of the current project
- Related past work
- Project description
- Budget outline
For more information, visit Working Assumptions.
