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Join the Climate Change Movement with Arts Help—$3.5 Million in grants!
We're partnering with Arts Help to give away $3.5m in grants to our community, so you can fund your creative projects that are aimed at fighting climate change.
You can propose any art project your heart can dream of. The project proposed can be in any medium and you can be located anywhere in the world. There is $3.5m to give away, with tiers of varying sizes (detailed below), and you can submit multiple proposals, not just one.
Need some inspiration? Check out these examples of art against climate change.
Here are the important bits:
Calling all artists in the fight against Climate Change! It is undeniably real—and it is a global crisis that needs to be addressed today, with YOUR help as an artist.
Arts Help is partnering with the Talenthouse community to distribute over 3.5 million dollars in grants to artists worldwide to create educational, powerful, and inspiring works of art exploring the relationship between Climate Change and Blockchain Technology. The goals of these works are to educate, raise awareness, and effect change.
Artists of all mediums are encouraged to participate! While blockchain technology is relatively new, its relationship with and direct impact on the Climate Change crisis continues to evolve and expand. We all know that blockchain as it currently exists is not environmentally friendly but there are also many applications of blockchain that could potentially have a positive impact on Climate Change too.
Selected Creators will be chosen by Arts Help to move forward with the grant funding process until funding runs out. (Don’t sleep on this!)
Your final, completed work may be featured on official Arts Help and Conscious Crypto Creator channels and should emphasize Climate Change Action in the blockchain world now and tomorrow—creating something both educational and impactful enough to inspire the viewer to take action.
With the launch of the Conscious Crypto Creator movement, Arts Help hopes to educate artists and the general public on both the positive and negative impacts of blockchain technology on the planet. Artists are always at the forefront of social activism and the impact of modern technologies on Climate Change is no exception.
- Your proposals should explore topics of Climate Change and blockchain with the end goal of Climate Change Action and Awareness to the general public and viewer. We especially want to see how you envision your work living beyond itself and continuing to impact and educate the viewer and the general public after completion.
- How will your artwork contribute to the movement of the Conscious Crypto Creator?
- We are looking for artists who are going to go the extra mile.
- These are the Key Themes your proposals should focus on (please choose one theme/one concept per proposal submission):
- Blockchain’s Carbon Footprint
- Corporate Impact & Social Responsibility in Blockchain & Climate Change
- Global Impact of Blockchain Technology
- Making Blockchain Sustainable
- The Future of Blockchain
- What does all of this mean? See the Key Themes & Sample Topics Guide Here
- Your proposal/final artwork should feel: Educational, Informational, Hopeful, Uplifting, Inspiring, Motivating Change, Urgent, Serious (but not dark), Encouraging and Inviting.
- The work you plan to create and receive funding for should have a clear call to action to encourage viewers to learn more about Climate Change, Climate Action, and the impacts of blockchain technology and NFTs on the climate with special consideration for proposals that explore the topics discussed in the CCC Master Courses.
- We want to see how you envision your work contributing to the Conscious Crypto Creator movement. How will your work impact and educate the viewer and the general public after you’ve completed it?
- How are you going to share your art with the world? How will you make sure your work is seen? We are looking for artists who are going to go the extra mile and want to take their art to the next level by actively promoting their work and the Conscious Crypto Creator movement.
- Learn about the Conscious Crypto Creator movement and the impacts of blockchain technology, NFT’s, and cryptocurrencies on the environment on the Arts Help website.
- You will be asked to pledge to take the course as a part of your application process. All grant recipients will be required to become CCC certified in order to receive their funding.
- Applicants can submit as many times as they like and all proposals are eligible for reconsideration in a following grant distribution round. You are encouraged to submit to different themes.
- All proposals for grant funding must be for work that is new or not currently complete.
- You are allowed to submit a proposal for funding for work that is in the process of being created and needs a little bit more financial support.
- Please review the Grant Tiers Guide to see where your proposal would land in terms of funding qualifications.
- Think your proposal doesn’t fit into a specific tier in the guidelines we provided? Have some big dreams for your ideas? Convince us!
DO’S
DO learn about the Conscious Crypto Creator movement and the impacts of blockchain technology, NFT’s, and cryptocurrencies on the environment on the Arts Help website.
DO explore a topic of Climate Change and Blockchain that interests you.
DO only use the template that is provided for you, in the medium that best suits your proposal.
You may modify the template slightly to suit your needs but it should maintain the integrity of the template. This is to standardize submissions for easier review and consideration for the Arts Help team. Please see the Arts Help 2022 Grant Application Template Guide for more information on how to organize your application. The template and template guide can be found in the materials folder.
DO include a title and short description (~150-250 words in English in the description box) with your submission.
DO title the file of your submission as “LastName_FirstName_Title”, filling in the respective areas with your last and first name and the title of your proposal before uploading to the Talenthouse platform.
DO keep the CCC, Arts Help, and Talenthouse logos in the proposal
DO NOT’S
Do Not include anything that could be interpreted as violent, sexually explicit, racist, pornographic, sexist, political, discriminating, religious, or offensive.
Do Not show individuals consuming alcohol or illicit drugs (as dictated by your local government and legislation).
Do Not submit work or ideas not created by you. Any pre-existing copyright materials, others’ intellectual property, and/or stock imagery used in your submission should only be used to supplement your ideas and concepts.
Do Not submit any previously made or finished works—completed works are not eligible for grant funding.
Do Not include false, misleading, or inaccurate information. This includes presenting personal opinions as factual information
Arts Help is an award-winning non-profit organization that champions social change through art-centric solutions. As a global creative network that curates collaborations with artists, industry-leading institutions, and grassroots organizations, Arts Help delivers impactful programming, and publishing. With a digital network of over 4 million people, the creative hub aims to provide inclusive opportunities for artists of all disciplines to showcase their talent and create impact.
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Grant Proposals will be chosen by Arts Help as Selected Creators. Each will:
Receive grant amount as outlined in their proposal or negotiated with the Arts Help Team.
Have their work featured across Arts Help social, digital and wider marketing channels, reaching over 4 million people around the world to promote the Conscious Crypto Creator movement and master class program as well as their CCC grants distribution program in 2022.
For more information, please see the Official Rules.
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Who is eligible: This opportunity is open globally with restrictions (See Official Rules for sanctioned countries). Creators must be at least 18 years of age or the age of majority in your jurisdiction of primary residence at the time of submission.
All submissions must be your own original work.
Multiple submissions (up to 10 per grant round) are allowed. If your proposal is not selected during this Grant Distribution Round, you are eligible to resubmit your proposal for reconsideration in following grant rounds.
Applicants may submit as a group/collective.
How to submit: Click on the ‘Participate’ tab and follow the instructions. Proposals must be uploaded as a PDF.
Once the application is approved, changes to the proposed activities having a budget impact of 25% or less of eligible costs may be made without Arts Help pre-approval, subject to the cap, if any. All other changes must be approved by Arts Help.
All works must comply with the submission requirements detailed in the Official Rules.
Employees and their immediate family and household members of Arts Help and Talenthouse (Talenthouse, Ello, Zooppa, EyeEm, Jovoto) are not eligible to participate. Void where prohibited by law.
Please provide an active email address when registering with Talenthouse to ensure you can be contacted should you be selected.
During the Selection Period, Talenthouse will reach out to those being shortlisted. You must respond to Talenthouse within 48 hours or else you will forfeit all incentives. For the verification, you will be asked to provide the original files of your work and a scan of your ID.
If selected, you may be asked to modify your work to fit production or brand requirements. Failure to modify may be a forfeit of their Selected Creator status and the associated prize.
Talenthouse reserves the right to remove inappropriate, offensive and harmful submissions as well as submissions that do not fit the brief, these guidelines, our Terms & Conditions or Official Rules.
Upon selection, you will be required to sign a License Agreement and the Awardee Agreement (to be provided upon selection) as well as complete the Conscious Crypto Creative Master Courses and become CCC certified. Please note that submissions can be used by you for personal, non-commercial and portfolio use only.
Talenthouse and Arts Help reserves the right to disqualify entrants if it has reasonable grounds to suspect that fraudulent, excessive or suspicious patterns of selection manipulation have occurred.
For Selected Creators & Runner Ups: We require you to open up an ElloU bank account in order to be paid if you are a national of one of these countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and UK. ElloU will be the cheapest service for you to pay and receive money. Our basic plan, “Free & Easy” comes at no cost to you, with no fees. You can read more here and can download the ElloU app from the App Store or Google Play by searching for ElloU. If ElloU does not apply to you, we can still pay your incentive by bank transfer (no cost to you) or PayPal (4% fee).
You do not need to sign up for ElloU in order to submit to this brief.
No purchase necessary to enter or be selected.
All proposals will be evaluated internally by Arts Help and Talenthouse to ensure all criteria are met. Proposals will be shortlisted and scored, based on the grading scale/judging criteria below:
Creativity (30%)
Originality (30%)
Overall Understanding of the theme (40%).
Launch: February 1st, 2022 at 12:00PM PST
Deadline: March 15th, 2022 at 12:00PM PST
Creators Selected: On a Rolling Basis