Summary:
Sandbox Fund offers grants, engagement events, and other opportunities for independent artists seeking to explore the intrinsic link between science and culture through innovative storytelling.
Application Deadline Date:
Monday, March 10, 2025
Lower Limit Amount ($):
40,000
Upper Limit Amount ($):
100,000
Academic Area:
Story-telling
Description:
Timeline
The Fund offers grants two times a year, with two separate application windows. Grant-making decisions occur generally in the winter and summer, in collaboration with Sandbox Films.
Current grant cycle:
Spring 2025: Open February 10, 2025 – Closes March 10, 2025
Applicants will be notified within 4-6 months of the deadline.
Grants
The fund offers support to projects at all stages of development, production, and post-production. Average grant sizes are as follows:
Development (up to $40,000)
Production (up to $100,000)
Post-Production (up to $100,000)
Creative Considerations
Selection criteria for the Sandbox Fund will emphasize creative narrative techniques and projects that highlight diversity in science, specifically those that feature characters, topics, or disciplines that broaden and redefine what it means to be a scientist or to do science.
Award Purpose:
Research
Other
Year In School:
Masters
PhD
Post Doctoral
Eligibility Requirement - Gender:
Any
Eligibility Requirement - Citizenship:
Any
Eligibility Requirement - Residency:
Any
Eligibility Requirement - Other:
Any
Specializations:
Business and the Environment
Climate Change Science and Solutions
Ecosystem Management and Conservation
Energy and the Environment
Environmental Policy Analysis
Forestry
Industrial Ecology and Green Chemistry
People, Equity, and the Environment
Water Resource Science & Management
Urban
Date Updated:
Monday, March 3, 2025
Recurring:
Bi-annual
Amount:
100000