The 2023-2024 CLMP Capacity-Building Grant Program provided nonprofit literary magazines and presses with two-year grants to support projects that aim to create a sustainable and effective organization in areas such as fundraising, marketing, distribution, and web development; skill-building opportunities for staff and board members; strategic and succession planning; diversity and equity initiatives; and leadership development and management training.
Eligible magazines and presses were invited to apply to the CLMP Capacity-Building Grant Program for two-year grants of between $5,000 to $25,000 each year, $10,000–$50,000 total, to support capacity-building initiatives. Funding from the Hawthornden Foundation, originally founded in 1983 by the late Drue Heinz, made this program possible.
The application deadline was October 28, 2022. Read about the 42 grant recipients.
Final reports from 2023-2024 grantees are due on December 13, 2024.
More About the Program
“Capacity building” as defined by the National Council of Nonprofits, is “whatever is needed to bring a nonprofit to the next level of operational, programmatic, financial, or organizational maturity, so it may more effectively and efficiently advance its mission into the future. Capacity building is not a one-time effort to improve short-term effectiveness, but a continuous improvement strategy toward the creation of a sustainable and effective organization.”
Grants were recommended by an independent panel composed of Patrick Davis, Publisher and Editor in Chief of Unbound Edition Press; Johanna Ingalls, Managing Editor and Director of Foreign Rights of Akashic Books; and Maria Maloney, Publisher and Editor in Chief of Mouthfeel Press. Final award decisions were approved by a committee of CLMP’s Board of Directors.
CLMP’s program was for nonprofit literary publishers. The Academy of American Poets offered a similar program for nonprofit literary organizations that present poetry or serve poets in their programming. Visit the AAP website to learn more.
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