Help Renourish Get A $50K Grant

Re-nourish, the excellent online sustainable graphic design resource, is in the running for a $50,000 grant to help them expand and improve their services via the Pepsi Refresh Project. Please take a couple minutes to help them get the grant by registering and voting for them HERE (voting is open through the end of February and you can vote once a day!).

Micro-Grants for Artists

The newly launched Society6 project is designed to help artists finance work through "micro-patronage" via the site:

Society6 makes the grant-making process easy and accessible to all individuals, non-profit organizations and corporations who want to support the future of the arts. ’ÄúWhen we started to look at the existing support infrastructure for artists and other creative people, we realized that it was particularly bureaucratic, exclusive and wasn’Äôt designed for scale. We’Äôve re-imagined the entire process in the form of a meritocracy, where a greater number of artists can receive unrestricted grant assistance based solely on the merit of their work as determined by their peers’Äù, said co-founder, Lucas Tirigall-Caste.

Society6 micro-grants are currently available in two forms, money or opportunities. Opportunity grants provide a nice recession-friendly alternative for cash-constrained supporters to offer assistance through free products (e.g. supplies), free services (e.g. studio time) and other distinctive opportunities that money just can’Äôt buy (e.g. feature in a magazine) .

Society6 inverts traditional art curating methods by allowing the community to promote the most provocative work as visualized on the 'The Charts'. Rooted in collaboration, its 'Studios' are the core of Society6. Individuals (e.g. artists or curators) and groups (e.g. design collectives or bands) can have one or many Studios. Studios let artists showcase their original work, or broaden their creative discipline by finding someone from across the globe to collaborate with. Society6 pushes the physical limitations of creativity inviting everyone who is inspired by the artistic process, as much as the end-result, to contribute to the cultural commentary. ’ÄúWe thought we’Äôd enable the narrative behind the work, so that the otherwise passive relationship between the artist and supporter is participatory and active. We wanted people to feel like they were sitting in the studio next to their favorite artist’Äù, said Wills.

The first $100 grant is already up for grabs. Find out more HERE.