Philanthropy News Digest – The MAP Fund has announced its 2022 grantee cohort, awarding 88 grants totaling $2.6 million in support of live performing arts projects across the United States that are typically left out of traditional arts philanthropy.
Each recipient was awarded $30,000—$25,000 toward the proposed work and $5,000 in unrestricted funds. The grants will be used across a wide array of media and styles, including jazz, ghost stories, clowning, puppetry, musical theater, and folklorico to address socially challenging issues such as environmental justice, medical racism faced by Black women, myths about aging, cultural erasure, consumer culture, and vulture capitalism. Established in 1989, the fund receives support from the Doris Duke Charitable, Howard Gilman, Andrew W. Mellon, Jerome, Nathan Cummings, Mid-Atlantic Arts, and Wilhelm Family foundations as well as through government grants from New York City, New York State, and the federal government.