Applicants must possess U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status.

The Knight Foundation supports translational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. This competition is open to nonprofits, for-profits or individuals anywhere in the world. 

The Knight News Challenge accelerates media innovation by funding breakthrough ideas in news and information. Innovators from all industries and countries are invited to participate. The Knight Foundation helps its award winners to develop their organizations, recruit collaborators, manage projects and grow their networks.

Grants support national or regional (multi-state) training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through these programs, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities.

The projects may be a single opportunity or offered multiple times to different audiences. Institutes may be as short as a few days and held at multiple locations or as long as six weeks at a single site. The duration of a program should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• applications of the Text Encoding Initiative, electronic editing, and publishing;
• scholarly communication and publishing;
• e-literature;
• textual analysis and text mining;
• immersive and virtual environments in multimedia research, including those for mobile platforms;
• 3-D imaging technology;
• digital image and sound analysis;
• information aesthetics and approaches to visualizations of humanities topics and research;
• computing gaming and simulations as applied to the humanities;
• high-performance computing or supercomputing and the humanities; and
• advanced Geographic Information Systems applications.

The National Endowment for the Arts' Literature Fellowships program offers grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement.

The Chamber Music America foundation supports the creation of new works by professional U.S.-based jazz artists and helps assure that these compositions will be heard through live performances and recordings. 

Under the New Jazz Works program, the foundation provides grants for: 

• Core: the creation and two performances of a new work; 
• Continued Life: additional performances and recording of the new composition; 
• Administrative Support: activities such as booking or promoting performances, recording the new work, or other administrative functions identified by the grantee; and 
• Attendance at a CMA National Conference.

The Foundation offers grants to support catalogues and other publications accompanying contemporary art exhibitions and projects, especially those supporting emerging and under-recognized artists, and produced by organizations outside the nation's cultural centers. One-time special projects are preferred. Limited funds are also available for publications related to the grantee organization and its programs or collections.

To be considered, project dates must fall within one year of the funding cycle in which the organization is requesting funds. And, the Foundation is unlikely to provide grants exceeding one third of the proposed publication budget.

Furthermore grants in publishing support the publication of nonfiction books that concern: art, architecture, and design; cultural history, the city, and related public issues; and conservation and preservation. The Fund looks for work that appeals to an informed general audience, gives evidence of high standards in editing, design, and production, and promises a reasonable shelf life. 

Funds apply to such specific publication components as writing, research, editing, indexing, design, illustration, photography, and printing and binding. Grant applications are accepted twice a year with deadlines of March 1 and September 1.

The Massachusetts Historical Society will offer approximately 20 short-term research fellowships in 2016. Each grant supports four weeks of research at the Society sometime between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017. 

The Foundation focuses on serving the needs of artists by funding the institutions that support them. Grants are made on a project basis to curatorial programs at museums, artists' organizations, and other cultural institutions to originate innovative and scholarly presentations of contemporary visual arts. 

The Foundation accepts Letters of Inquiry for projects that fall under their Core Funding Areas. A number of topics--including creativity, freedom, gratitude, love, and purpose--can be found under more than one Area. The Foundation welcomes proposals that bring together these overlapping elements, especially by combining the tools and approaches of different disciplines.

Templeton's Core Funding Areas are:

• Science and the Big Questions: includes mathematical and physical sciences, life sciences, human sciences, philosophy and theology, and science in dialogue;
• Character Virtue Development;
• Individual Freedom and Free Markets;
• Exceptional Cognitive Talent and Genius; and
• Genetics.

The Performing Arts program supports projects that: strengthen the national infrastructure of the professional nonprofit dance, jazz, presenting and/or theatre fields; or improve conditions for the national community of performing artists in professional nonprofit dance, jazz and theatre.

The Graham Foundation makes project-based grants to individuals and organizations and produces public programs to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.

For organizations, the Foundation's priorities are to: 

• assist with the production and presentation of significant programs about architecture and the designed environment in order to promote dialogue, raise awareness, and develop new and wider audiences;

• support them in their effort to take risks in programming and create opportunities for experimentation;

• recognize the vital role they play in providing individuals with a public forum in which to present their work; and

• help them to realize projects that would otherwise not be possible without the Foundation's support.