2025 Micrograntees
2025 Intercultural Microgrant Program
About the Program
Launched with support from Kentucky Arts Council, Fund for the Arts, Kentucky Foundation for Women, Kentucky Waterways Alliance, EarthTools, and individual donors, the Kentucky Intercultural Microgrant Program supports a series of seed grants to support short-term projects that foster dialogue, connection, or collaboration among Kentuckians from disparate backgrounds, identities, or experiences.
2025 Intercultural Microgrant Funds & Recipients
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Josh May Memorial Fund Microgrant
In memory of RUX Co-Founder Josh May, this grant fund supports diverse Kentuckians to collaborate on a musical project.
Kentucky Foundation for Women Microgrants
In partnership with the Kentucky Foundation for Women (KFW), this fund supports small, women-led projects that use arts, culture, or creativity to bridge geographic, racial, and economic divides in Kentucky or reduce political polarization.
Civic Health Microgrants
This fund supports projects that bring community members together across different ideologies or backgrounds to work together or solve a local challenge.
Artist-led projects that generate Economic Impact in Eastern Kentucky
This fund invests in projects that engage Eastern Kentucky artists with individuals or organizations from the Kentucky RUX Network to collaborate across distance, difference, or sector on projects that celebrate and connect Kentucky's people and places and promote economic impact.
Kentucky Waterways Alliance Microgrants
In partnership with the Kentucky Waterways Alliance (KWA), this fund seeks to invest in projects that clean up, improve access to, or offer education about Kentucky’s waterways.
Agriculture and Food Systems Resiliency
In partnership with EarthTools and an anonymous donor, we invest in projects that bolster environmental or agricultural ecosystems and support resiliency across the state of Kentucky through support to teams of Kentucky naturalists, farmers, food workers, or organizations working to promote sustainable ecosystems and/or food systems in our Commonwealth.
