Focus Areas & GrantsStrengthening Civil Society
The Arts and Culture Program works at the nexus of arts, culture, human rights, and social advocacy. Through its grants, the program strives to encourage broad-based critical reflection and catalyze social action in parts of the world where open societies are absent or weak, and where the cultural rights of minority groups are endangered.
In partciular, the program provides grants to strengthen alternative and autonomous cultural infrastructures and innovative arts initiatives in Central Asia, the Caucasus, Afghanistan, Moldova, Mongolia, and Turkey.
