2024 Mock Grant Panel

The Mock Grant Panel offers an opportunity to practice writing a grant application for your arts-based project, and to get formal feedback from a review committee. Artists of all disciplines, collectives, and emerging arts organizations without nonprofit status are invited to apply.

A three-person review committee will publicly discuss and comment on each application, similar to the Regional Arts Commission’s citizen review panels. The committee will use MAPS fiscal sponsorship program application criteria to rate and rank all applications.

MAPS has divided submissions into two pools: one for applicants who have more experience or success with past applications, and one for those who may be first-time applicants, or who have not had successful past applications. Winning applications in each category will receive a $300 no-strings-attached cash prize that can be put towards making applicant’s projects a reality.

Applications will be assessed equally in each category (i.e., panelists will not be “harder” or “easier” on either pool, and neither pool gives you a better or worse chance of being selected). Our hope is that this will provide applicants with a more equitable opportunity to receive helpful feedback no matter where they are in their creative careers.

About Midwest Artist Project Services

Founded in 2012, MAPS offers low-cost resources for working artists in all disciplines, collectives, and emerging arts organizations in the St. Louis region and beyond. MAPS aims to promote new and sustainable growth in the arts through fiscal sponsorship, consultation, education, and providing access to best solutions for the current issues that affect artists. midwestarts.org.