Creative Media Awards (Discontinued)

About this program (historical reference)

Historical funding: $15,000 - $30,000

Prior eligibility: Creatives working at the intersection of art and artificial intelligence; artists, digital storytellers, game designers, and creative technologists.

Creative Media Awards is a grant from the Mozilla Foundation that funds artwork and creative projects examining the role of responsible, ethical, and justice-centered design in artificial intelligence. The program supports creatives—including artists, digital storytellers, game designers, and creative technologists—who work at the intersection of art and AI to challenge extractive tech norms and envision better futures. Mozilla Foundation has invested over $35 million in building a better technology future across its grantmaking programs. Eligible applicants are artists and creative technologists working on responsible AI themes. Awards range from $15,000 to $30,000. Current open calls include the Democracy x AI Incubator cohort.

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Mozilla Foundation Grant Programs (Senior Fellowship, Tech + Society Fellowship, Africa Innovation Mradi) is sponsored by Mozilla Foundation. The Mozilla Foundation offers various grant programs and fellowships that align with its mission to improve and protect the internet as a public resource. Their strategic focus includes trustworthy AI, internet health, data stewardship, digital rights, democracy protection, and countering disinformation. Specific programs include senior fellowships for changemakers who protect democracy from disinformation and ensure AI serves the public good, and research grants for AI and social justice.

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Humanity AI Communities Leading on AI Open Call for Proposals from the 500 Million Dollar Ten-Foundation Pooled Fund

Humanity AI is a 500 million dollar, five-year pooled fund launched in October 2025 by ten major foundations - MacArthur, Ford, Mellon, Mozilla, Omidyar Network, Doris Duke, Lumina, Kapor, Packard and Gates - built around the premise that AI is design rather than destiny and that the people affected by AI systems should have a hand in shaping them. Communities Leading on AI is its first competitive open call, and it is the most accessible entry point into a fund that otherwise operates largely through invited and aligned grantmaking. Ten million dollars is available, with individual grants from 75,000 to 1,000,000 dollars. Three of the fund's five issue areas are in scope for this call: education, meaning AI shaped around the interests of students and educators; labor and economy, meaning AI that enhances rather than displaces workers; and humanities, arts and culture, meaning protection for creators alongside expanded human creativity. The fund's other two priorities, democracy and security, are not part of this particular call. Applications launched 10 September 2026 and close 21 October 2026 at 4:59pm Pacific, a notably short six-week window. Review is two-phase: initial screening for eligibility, then scoring on vision, community leadership, clarity and feasibility, impact potential, and credibility, with finalists notified in December 2026 and asked for additional materials and possible interviews before awards are announced in early spring 2027. The eligibility rules reward exactly what the name suggests - community leadership. U.S.-based 501(c)(3) organizations may apply independently; individuals must apply through a fiscal sponsor or as part of a collaboration; for-profit entities can participate but cannot lead an application; and organizations that already received direct Humanity AI funding in 2026 may only participate inside a collaboration rather than as a lead.

Individual grants range from 75,000 to 1,000,000 US dollars, drawn from a 10,000,000 dollar pool allocated to this specific open call. amount_min is set to 75,000 and amount_max to 1,000,000. The 10 million dollar figure is the one to plan against, not the 500 million dollar headline for Humanity AI as a whole - that larger number is the five-year commitment across all ten foundations and their aligned grantmaking, of which this competitive open call is a small, deliberately accessible slice. The wide 75,000 to 1,000,000 band signals that the fund expects to make both small community-organization grants and a smaller number of substantial awards, so applicants should size their ask to the scope of work rather than anchoring on the ceiling. Awards are announced in early spring 2027, roughly five months after the deadline, which is a long runway to plan for if the project depends on the funding to start.Deadline: Oct 22, 2026

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