Funds

Dance Advancement Fund. For metropolitan NYC area dance makers with operating budgets between $10,000 and $500,000.

Dance Advancement Fund

About

Dance/NYC’s Dance Advancement Fund was established to address the inequitable distribution of resources in the dance field and advance its resilience and thriving. Each program builds on Dance/NYC’s ongoing and iterative learnings across its core services including: action-oriented research; advocacy; technological resources through Dance.NYC; leadership training, networking, and convening; and other grantmaking programs; as well as the organizational values of justice, equity, and inclusion embedded into all aspects of its programs and services.

Dance Advancement Fund (2018-2019, 2020-2021, 2022-2023, 2024-2026)

Made possible by the support of the Ford Foundation, Dance/NYC established the Dance Advancement Fund in 2017 to address the inequitable distribution of resources in the dance field by supporting small budget dance makers with budgets less than $1 million. As of 2023, the Dance Advancement Fund has provided over $1.7 million in general operating support to 69 unique dance making organizations and groups with budgets under $1 million across three grant cycles. Learn more about the previous iterations of the program.

In September 2024 - August 2026, Dance/NYC is once again administering the program, and the grantee cohort of 25 dancemaking organizations will receive general operating support grants ranging from $6,000 to $40,000, awarded over a two-year period from September 1, 2024, to August 31, 2026.  Learn more about the 2024-2026 iteration of the fund and the grantees.

 

A dancer in a black tutu and leotard and pointe shoes stands on one leg, with the other leg extended behind the body in a straight line. One arm is raised above the head and the other extended to the back parallel to the extended leg. The school director is opposite the dancer and wears a red DTH logo t-shirt and black pants and ballet slippers. She holds the hand of the arm raised above the dancer’s head with one arm and her back arm is extended and she is smiling at the student.

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