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Grow Your Membership Grants


  Grand Square Incorporated (GSI) Educational Fund

  The Foundation for the Preservation and Promotion of Square Dancing 

   https://callerlabfoundation.com/grants-and-scholarships/

  • For a dancer to learn how to better serve square dancing,
  • For a caller with a background of calling or dancing;  to learn to call or a desire to improve their calling
  • A square dance organization  to sponsor a seminar or clinic to provide training to dancers or callers,
  • Limit $350, apply prior to need 

   

   Come Square Dance!   http://www.comesquaredance.com/about-1.html

     For more information: http://www.comesquaredance.com/contact-us.html

  • For the State of Minnesota only
  • CSD provides funds for ABC dances when funds are available.
  • CSD provides grants for classes when funds are available. 

   

   Walking Together: Investing in Folklife in Communities of Color

     https://usregionalarts.org/walkingtogether/

  • Up to $50,000 for organization programs
  • Appears grant program deadline is in March.
  • Supports folklife and traditional arts rooted in communities of color by investing in practitioners and the community organizations that care for them. It is a national funding program managed by the six U.S. regional arts organizations (RAOs).
  •  Walking Together serves traditional artists/practitioners and organizations that show a deep commitment to sustaining folklife rooted in communities of color.

   

   All Join Hands Foundation   https://alljoinhands.org/index.html

  • Funds projects to preserve and promote LGBTQ+ square dancing and other associated dance forms

      Projects must:

  • Protect the heritage of the activity and contribute to its growth, emphasizing the social, physical, and mental benefits of square dancing
  • Increase public awareness, educate and inform the general public about preserving the art of square dancing
  • Educate the public about LGBTQ+ square dancers
  • Educate the public about square dancing as an art form.
  • Contact the Club Liaison Officer here:  IAGSDC contact page