NLP Public Goods Grants

NLP Public Goods Grants is sponsored by NewLights Press. The NLP Public Goods Grants are an experiment in community-based income redistribution, resource sharing, and care, specifically for the artists' books/print/publication community and ecosystem.

NLP Public Goods Grants — NewLights Press The hope is that the grants will genuinely help grow infrastructure for the book/print/art community while also providing a proof of concept for other instances of non-competitive, democratic, public funding in the arts outside of traditional nonprofit fundraising and philanthropy.

Any project, press, organization, business, individual artist, etc. that is helping to grow and care for the artists’ books/print/publication community and ecosystem through the creation of some kind of public good. That “public good” could be resources, tools, online platforms, programming, classes, etc. This basic criteria is meant to be broad, open, and inclusive.

A voting boost will be given to projects that: a) are run by and/or primarily support people from backgrounds that are underrepresented in the field; b) are in the early stages of their development (5 years or less); and/or c) exist outside of the traditional nonprofit structure, such as co-ops and democratically-run projects. The voting boost breaks a tie in favor of a nominee that meets the criteria (see above).

In the event of a tie where both projects do or do not receive the voting boost a run-off vote will be held. Grant funds will (hopefully) be distributed before the end of each calendar year. NLP will maintain and make publicly available documentation of nominations, votes, and fund distribution for each year.

Grant recipients are ineligible for another NLP Public Goods Grant for the next three years. This is the full list of nominees for 2025. Voting took place from 12/3/25 - 12/16/25.

The recipient was: Late Night Copies Press / Workshop for Independent Publishing (WIP) * And the other nominees were: Burn All Books / SCANNNERS Archive * Sarah Nicholls / Brainwashing From Phone Towers Informational Pamphlets Western New York Book Arts Center This is the full list of nominees for 2024. Voting took place, over two rounds, from 12/7/24 - 12/18/24.

The recipient was: And the other nominees were: Rietlanden Women’s Office * Hard-Pressed Community Printshop & Zine Library * This is the full list of the nominees for the 2023 (the first!) grant. Voting took place from 12/9/23 to 12/16/23.

The recipient was: Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective * And the other nominees were: Moving Parts Press LATINX/CHICANX/POETX Broadside Series * Burn All Books Scannners Archive * The Codex Foundation Paid Internship Program Late Night Copies Press * “Light Redistributing The News” Walkable Chapbook Project * The * indicates that the nominee met the criteria for a voting boost.