Funding suggestions for arts & tech workshop enrollment?
July 2, 2015 11:04 PM Subscribe
I just got accepted to the Fall semester of the School for Poetic Computation, an arts & tech bootcamp, in New York on a partial scholarship. Any suggestions for short-term grants or funding sources that can help cover my tuition & other costs that'll disburse ASAP?
The scholarship covers half my tuition, so I now owe around $2750, and then there's travel & living expenses, so all up I'm estimating around $7000 including a buffer (this is for 3 months).
The grants I've been referred to have either closed applications or won't take in applications until after I've started my course (I specifically emailed Australia Council about their Development Grants and they said it would have been exactly the sort of thing they'd fund but the timing was wrong). I have just about 2 months, so timing is extra tricky.
I don't qualify for most US loans since I'm not a US citizen, but I am now a newly minted Australian permanent resident so funding sources from there could work. And I'm aware of crowdfunding, but I'd like to keep that on the side until absolutely necessary.
Thanks!
The scholarship covers half my tuition, so I now owe around $2750, and then there's travel & living expenses, so all up I'm estimating around $7000 including a buffer (this is for 3 months).
The grants I've been referred to have either closed applications or won't take in applications until after I've started my course (I specifically emailed Australia Council about their Development Grants and they said it would have been exactly the sort of thing they'd fund but the timing was wrong). I have just about 2 months, so timing is extra tricky.
I don't qualify for most US loans since I'm not a US citizen, but I am now a newly minted Australian permanent resident so funding sources from there could work. And I'm aware of crowdfunding, but I'd like to keep that on the side until absolutely necessary.
Thanks!
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And I'm aware of crowdfunding, but I'd like to keep that on the side until absolutely necessary.posted by divabat at 10:58 AM on July 4, 2015
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Do a crowdfunding project, via a site such as Kickstarter or goFundMe. Sure, some crowdfunding projects are prepaid product purchases, but many are simple appeals for donations. Some examples of the latter:
http://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=search&term=attend
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1758525285/transport-my-artwork-to-southern-oregon-university?ref=discovery
I don't know what kinds of poetic computations you create, and I don't want to offend your sensibilites, but but could offer t-shirts a reward for donating, and possibly you could offer custom poetic computations as rewards for higher levels of donations.
posted by at at 7:06 AM on July 4, 2015