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The Literary Arts Fund is hosting free, online sessions for the nonprofit literary arts field that will cover the fund’s research and data about the field, budget best practices, and the fund’s innovation project grant application and grantmaking program. We invite members of the nonprofit literary arts field to attend the following: Field Scan Presentation […]
New fund is dedicated to strengthening the field, advancing support for creative writers and ensuring their contributions to American literature for generations to come
New York, NY (October 28, 2025) – Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations—the Ford Foundation, Hawthornden Foundation, Lannan Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Poetry Foundation, and an anonymous foundation—announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, an unprecedented effort to dramatically boost the essential yet critically underfunded nonprofit literary arts field in the United States.