This presentation will help you build fundamental skills in grant proposal writing, including the narrative and budget components. Whether you are just getting started with grants or looking to bolster your existing skill sets, you'll leave this workshop empowered with the skills you need to effectively communicate your projects to funders. NYFA is pleased to partner with the Office of the Arts, City of Alexandria to present this session.

In this session, attendees will:

• Build fundamental skills in grant proposal writing, including key “do’s” and “don’ts”
• Learn how to tell the story of your practice or project to funders
• Assess if a funding opportunity aligns with your practice or project
• Receive tips on where to find grants, and the common types of grants for individual artists & cultural organizations
• Familiarize themselves with fiscal sponsorship as a potential tool for fundraising

Event Breakdown
What: Build Your Fundraising Toolkit
When: Tuesday, June 27, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM ET
Where: Online (via Zoom)
Audience: Artists and cultural workers of all disciplines
Cost: Free; pay what you wish
Register: Register here for the zoom link.
Recording details: This event will be recorded and available to registrants for 1 month following the workshop.
Questions: Email learning@nyfa.org

Meet the Presenters

Alicia Ehni–Artist and Program Officer, NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship
Alicia Ehni is Program Officer at New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), working closely with Fiscally Sponsored projects on strategic planning and fundraising. At NYFA, she has also facilitated numerous professional development programs for artists and cultural workers. Ehni studied Fine Arts at Universidad Católica, Perú and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, as well as Arts Administration at NYU. She has served on the Support for Individual Artists committee of Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) and was Director of Frederico Seve Gallery/Latin collector in her previous role.

Matthew Seig–Media Specialist, NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship

Matthew Seig is an experienced producer and production executive for film and television, director of documentary films, film programmer, exhibitor, and rights licensor. He has directed or produced over a dozen films for theatrical and television distribution, both documentary and narrative, some of which have received Grammy, Emmy and Academy Award nominations. He has programmed art houses and festivals, serves as the Executive Director of the Rivertown Film Society in Nyack, NY, and he has managed libraries of media copyrights including those belonging to the late producer/director Robert Altman. Seig helped establish the Altman Archive at the University of Michigan, and edited a book about Altman’s life and films that was published by Abrams Books in 2014.

For NYFA and with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, he produced a series of interviews with independent filmmakers on the subject of building audiences—one of the many skills that funders look at when considering financial backing for a filmmaker—that were conducted by Eugene Hernandez (then at Film Society of Lincoln Center, currently the director of the Sundance Film Festival). In recent years, Seig has spoken about and moderated panels on fundraising for filmmakers at The Foundation Center, Producers Guild of America, Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, and others.