Grant Inquiry Form Deadline: 15.09.2024

For individuals, Graham Foundation grant priorities are to:

• Provide opportunities to create, develop, and communicate challenging ideas about architecture and the designed environment
• Support efforts to take positions, develop new forms of expression, engage debate around architecture and related fields, and reach new and broader audiences
• Contribute to an applicant’s creative, intellectual, and professional growth at a 
  crucial or potentially transformative career stage
• Amplify emerging and underrecognized perspectives in architecture and design by giving priority to first-time applicants

Criteria for Evaluation

Projects with the greatest potential for funding directly connect to the Graham Foundation's mission to explore ideas in architecture and fulfill the following criteria:

• Originality: the project demonstrates an innovative and challenging idea; critical, independent thinking; advanced scholarship; a new or experimental approach
• Potential for impact: the project makes a meaningful contribution to discourse and/or to the field; expands knowledge; is a catalyst for future inquiry; raises awareness of an understudied issue; promotes diversity in subject matter, participants, and audience
• Feasibility: the project has clear and realistic goals, timeframe, work plan, and budget
• Capacity: applicant possesses strong qualifications and/or knowledge; demonstrates ability to carry out the project successfully; has access to necessary resources outside of the grant request

Learn more and apply here