Selection
Criteria

Lead applicant must reside in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Middlesex or Plymouth county.

Public-facing component of the project must take place within one of those counties. If project takes place online, it must have some component geared to audiences in this region.

All proposals will be considered based on criteria including but not limited to:

• Overall idea and vision, with an emphasis on experimentation, risk taking, and unconventional viewpoints

• Relevance to and engagement with Greater Boston’s social, cultural, and/or geographic communities, histories, and contexts

• Accessibility of the project to the public

• Capacity of the applicant to realize the project on time and within budget

• Potential impact on the local community, the arts and culture landscape, and/or the artist’s growth

• Response to the urgencies of the present moment with unique and considered approaches to visual arts and arts organizing, with the understanding that Boston artists experience those urgencies and the present moment in varying ways

Selection
Process

The Collective Futures Fund invites an independent panel to review and select projects for funding. The four–person panel includes national and local artists and/or arts professionals, regional regranting program colleagues, and a previous grantee. All panelists will review and rank each proposal based on the stated criteria. During a convening administered by Tufts University Arts Galleries, panelists will have the opportunity to discuss the highest-scoring proposals until they all agree on which projects will be awarded Collective Futures Fund grants and how funds will be allocated.

Grantee
Responsibilities

At the beginning of the one-year grant period, Collective Futures Fund New Projects and Ongoing Platforms grantees will receive 90% of their grant funds upon return of a signed contract. Once the project is complete, grantees will be required to submit a brief report. The report is intended to help recipients reflect on the project in ways that may inform future creative pursuits. The final 10% of grant funds will be disbursed upon receipt of the final report. Sustaining Practice tier grantees will receive 100% of the proceeds upon return of signed contract, but a final report is still required. 

Grantees will be asked to maintain communication with Collective Futures Fund throughout the grant period and have an interim “studio visit.”

Grantees are legally responsible for all events, materials, outcomes, etc. connected with their projects.

Grantees will be asked to submit a 2-3 sentence description of their project for the website, along with an image/caption for promotional use along with their signed contract.

Grantees will periodically be asked to contribute text, visuals, and other materials for Collective Futures Fund promotions and archives.