The Blackwing Foundation’s Ignite the Arts grants empower our partners. They offer funding to improve arts and music curriculum in new and impactful ways. These grants also help schools reintroduce or sustain arts or music programs. Therefore, they give students more opportunities to engage in creative activities.

Grant Criteria

Our primary grant criteria include:

• Strong Partnerships: We want to strengthen and expand partnerships. We look for qualified individuals, organizations, and schools. They help us develop and expand the quality and reach of our programs. We often provide pilot funding to adapt a successful local program before working toward wider adoption.
• Student Access: We want to reach students with limited or no access to formal arts and music programs.
• High Quality: Programs must have strong curricular relevance and be of high quality.
• Engagement: We look for high student engagement and access.
• Sustainability: We support sustainable programs with a direct positive impact on student learning.

Program Qualifications

Grants are provided to two types of groups. We can give grants to qualified 501(c)(3) organizations that provide services to schools. Alternatively, we can give them directly to schools that want to adopt a program from our Regional or National Partners.