MAP Fund registration is now open

The 2009 MAP Fund online application is now open for registration.  Please keep in mind the following eligibility requirements:

• Applications must come from organizations based in the United States that have current nonprofit federal tax status - 501(c)(3). Artists or ensembles without 501(c)(3) status may apply to MAP through a fiscal sponsor.
• Organizations and artists must demonstrate at least 2 years professional experience.
• MAP supports only projects that contain a live performance.
• Eligible projects must not have premiered anywhere in the world before September 1, 2009.
• The touring or documentation of work that has already premiered is not eligible for funding.
• MAP does not fund projects whose main purpose is educational, for example art-in-the-schools or artistic training programs.
• Artists who are full-time students in degree granting programs at the time of application are not eligible.
• MAP does not fund organizations’ general operating expenses.
• MAP does not fund festivals or contests.
• Current employees or board members of Creative Capital, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation or the Rockefeller Foundation, or immediate family members of such persons are not eligible.
• Artists who were MAP Fund recipients in 2007 and 2008 may apply again in 2010.

MAP supports most direct costs related to the conception, creation and premiere of a new work. These include but are not limited to commissioning fees and artists’ salaries, research costs, rehearsal and workshop expenses, promotion, and audience outreach and production costs up to and including the premiere run of the work.

To read more about the guidelines, visit http://www.mapfund.org/apply.html.  If you’re a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas and are interested in applying, please contact our staff at support@fracturedatlas.org.  The final day to register for the MAP fund through Fractured Atlas is December 31st.