The Disability Futures Fellowship Award is a grant award offered by the Ford and Mellon Foundations to promote disabled artists. Through the Fellowship, the Ford and Mellon Foundation offers fifty thousand dollars to twenty artists every 18 months, totaling one million dollars per cohort. [1] [2]
The Fellowship began with a year-long research study in collaboration with disabled artists to determine how the grant money could most effectively meet the needs of the recipients, led by then-President and Chief Executive of United States Artists, Deana Haggag. Feedback included an accessible application process, the ability to tailor the money to each recipient's individual needs, and flexible compensation that takes federal health benefit requirements into account. [1]
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