Fellowships & Grants

One-year fellowships in Cultural Capital and Artists in Business Leadership. Fellows receive a $5,000 - $10,000 project grant, technical support and professional training to start or grow an arts business and to further their important work in their communities

Founded in 2020, In-Na-Po is a national Indigenous poetry community committed to mentoring emerging writers, nurturing the growth of Indigenous poetic practices, and raising the visibility of all Native Writers past, present, and future. In-Na-Po recognizes the role of poetry in sustaining tribal sovereign nations and Native languages.

Ha'a'aahdę́ę́' Writing Fellows are Diné writers in high school, college, or graduate school who exhibit a serious interest in creative writing. Ha'a'aahdę́ę́' Writing Fellows receive funding from EDWI to participate in the week-long program, including funds for meals, and lodging at Navajo Technical University in Crownpoint, New Mexico.

The Emerging Poets Fellowship is a First Peoples Fund (FPF) youth development program that works with four (4) regional partners, including FPF's Dances with Words to provide poetry and professional artist development training to seven (7) Indigenous youth from the Pine Ridge Reservation and Rapid City area.

LIFT – Early Career Support for Native Artists program provides invaluable support to early career Native artists with one-year awards to develop and realize new projects. LIFT encourages artists to uplift communities, advance positive social change, point courageously toward environmental sustainability, and foster communal meaning making.

Formerly the HBO Access Writing Fellowship, the WarnerMedia Access Writers Program has been expanded to a two-year program for entry-level narrative TV writers. The objective is to provide marginalized voices a pathway for entry into the television industry through instruction, mentorship and exposure.

The IAIA Artist-in-Residence (A-i-R) Program hosts artists for variable-length residencies taking place on the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA).

Two fellowships, one for a Native American visual artist and one for a Native American writer, living and working in the US, with strong ability and a practice that engages a dialogue between the artist’s or writer’s world and the surrounding culture.

In 2020, following the success of its Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists, Ucross launched a similar opportunity for Native American writers at all stages in their professional careers.

From micro-grants to their Radical Imagination program, NDN Collective has a variety of funding sources for Native artists, writers, and changemakers.

Change Labs is a Native-led and Native-controlled 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based on the Navajo and Hopi nations. They foster the creation of successful Native American small businesses that provide a social benefit to tribal communities.

Forge Project seeks an annual cohort of six Indigenous individuals that represent a broad diversity of cultural practices, participatory research, organizing models, and geographical contexts that honor Indigenous pasts as well as build Native futures.

Creative Capital is a nonprofit, grantmaking organization with the mission to fund artists in the creation of groundbreaking new work, to amplify the impact of their work, and to foster sustainable artistic careers.