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IAC Grants for Educators
Opens: February 5, 2025
Deadline: March 5, 2025
The Illinois Poet Laureate is an appointment made possible by the Office of the Governor. The Poet Laureate advances awareness of and appreciation for the literary arts and humanities within the state.
Opens: February 26, 2025
Deadline: April 9, 2025
The Illinois Arts Council’s (IAC) Creative Accelerator Fund (CAF) provides crucial support to artists with a goal of strengthening the creative workforce that composes a significant portion of Illinois’ economic activity.
Opens: July, 2025
Open Deadline
Creative Projects Grant offers support to Illinois artists and non-profit organizations for arts-related projects, events, or professional development.
The Arts & Foreign Language (AFL) Grant is to support arts and foreign language education in schools, with an emphasis on ensuring that these areas become part of the school's core curriculum. In FY25 this grant program is only available to FY24 grantees as a continuation of the work they have been doing this past fiscal year.
IAC Initiatives for Educators
Opens: September 16, 2024
Deadline: Closed
Illinois Statewide POL Contest: March 17, 2025
A partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, and the state arts agencies, Poetry Out Loud is a national arts education program that encourages the study of great poetry by offering free educational materials and a dynamic recitation competition for high school students across the country.
Additional State Funding & Other Opportunities
Deadline: May 1, 2025
Every young poet from kindergarten through 12th grade in Illinois is invited to participate and become a part of Brooks' enduring legacy. As she beautifully expressed in 1977, “All the children who entered the contest are winners… They worked hard. They created. And that is what is important.”
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