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Submit a project request, proof of active artistic or cultural practice, description of contribution to alternative efforts in income/ownership/care, and ambitious framing of implications for transforming artists' lives.
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Get matched →CALI Futures supports artists and cultural workers across California who are meaningfully contributing to alternative efforts outside conventional nonprofit and for-profit arts and culture systems. The Fund encourages work focused on income, ownership, and care, uplifting the role of artists and cultural workers in shaping sustainable creative efforts.
Open to artists and cultural workers across California, working individually or in teams, at every stage from initial ideas and early concepts to research, implementation, experimentation, and reflection.
Project-restricted grants of $5,000. A total of $100,000 in funding will be available each year across the 2026–2028 funding cycle.
Administered by the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI), an intermediary focused on strengthening the economic and social infrastructure for creatives, culture bearers, and creative entrepreneurs, with funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
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