Support Indigo Arts Alliance Today and for the Future!

Indigo Arts Alliance relies on your generosity to support artists from across the African Diaspora who are courageously committed to expressing original ideas and thought leadership via their creative practices.

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Ways of Giving

There are multiple ways your gift can support our mission.

Your donation is 100% tax deductible.

The Impact of your gift is profound and will make a huge difference in helping us grow our artist residency programs, public engagement initiatives, and celebrations of Creativity + Courage.

Funding of artists stipends and expenses required to run our residencies for both the IAA Mentor/ Mentee program and our David C. Driskell/Black Seed Studio Fellowship.

Donations also enable us to offer free public workshops, artist talks, symposia and a variety of community engagement events.

All gifts at any amount
are welcome! Of course, unrestricted funds are critical as they cover operational costs, equipment and materials
that ensure support for the infrastructure and sustainability of Indigo Arts Alliance.

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Become a Diaspora Sponsor

Indigo Arts Alliance Diaspora Sponsor is a community of monthly sustainers who support our Residency and Fellowship Programs, including transformative workshops, creative materials, and professional development opportunities with leading practitioners in the field. As Diaspora Sponsors, they advance artists and neighbors as change agents in their own communities and are integral to our work. Diaspora Sponsors contribute a minimum of $200 monthly.

Your tax-deductible contribution will directly impact multiracial, multigenerational, and multidisciplinary artists who engage with Indigo Arts Alliance.

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Challenges

Understand that Artists Need Development & Support

Facilitate creative
exchanges

Grow, scale,
enhance artistic
practice

Learn new technical/creative skills

Time for creative
reflection/
exploration

Develop small
business capacity

The professional development of Black/Brown artists generates a wealth of artistic expressions that address our most common human experiences and social justice issues.

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Donations

As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Indigo Arts Alliance relies on contributions from individuals, corporations, and foundations to make extraordinary community-centered public art events available and accessible to audiences of all backgrounds—at absolutely no charge. Thank you for your support!

Donate by Check

Check donations can be made payable to Indigo Arts Alliance and mailed to:
60 Cove Street Suite 101 Portland, Maine 04103

Donate by Stock, Will or Trust

Your generous contribution can also take the form of a gift of stock,
a gift by will, or trust. All of these options will be carefully handled by our philanthropy specialist.

Gifts of Stock

Please notify Indigo Arts Alliance that
you will be making a gift by emailing us at info@indigoartsalliance.me

Please direct your financial advisor to use the following delivery instructions when making the transfer:

Broker: NFS/CFN
Account: Indigo Arts Alliance Corp
DTC #: 0226
Acct #: B3S738113

Gifts By Will

Your will, when it is drafted by your lawyer, is hand tailored to incorporate your decisions. A bequest in your will to Indigo Arts Alliance is exempt from the federal estate tax and the Maine estate tax. The following suggested forms of bequests are examples and can be adapted by you and your lawyer to meet your specific intentions:

Specific Bequest
ResiduaryBequest
Contingent Bequest
Gifts By Life Insurance
Gifts By Trust
Charitable Lead Trust

Institutional Supporters

In accordance with Andy Warhol’s will, the mission of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is the advancement of the visual arts. The foundation manages an innovative and flexible grants program while also preserving Warhol’s legacy through creative and responsible licensing policies and extensive scholarly research for ongoing catalogue raisonné projects.

To date, the foundation has given nearly $260 million in cash grants to over 1,000 arts organizations in 49 states and abroad and has donated 52,786 works of art to 322 institutions worldwide.

Indigo Arts Alliance is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) through the Grants for Arts Projects award. The provides funding support for our Artist Residency Programs. It is one of 1,251 Grants for Arts Projects awards totaling nearly $28.8 million that were announced by the NEA as part of its first round of fiscal year 2023 grants.

Indigo Arts Alliance is supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts through the New England Arts Resilience Fund, part of the United States Regional Arts Resilience Fund, an initiative of the U.S. Regional Arts Organizations and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with major funding from the federal CARES Act from the National Endowment for the Arts.

American Endowment Foundation
Androscoggin Bank
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Arete Foundation
Bangor Savings Bank Foundation
Beim Foundation
Brooks Family Foundation
Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundation
Crewe Foundation
Davis Family Foundation
Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation
Elmina B. Sewall Foundation
Evans Guidry Foundation
Greater Lowell Community Foundation
Horizon Foundation
Fidelity’s Neighborhood Grants Fund
Irving Foundation National Endowment for the Arts
Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation

Maine Arts Commission
Maine Community Foundation
Maine Community
Foundation – People of Color Fund
Maine Humanities Council
Maine Initiatives
Maine Initiatives Tech Grant
Maine Justice Fund
Mascoma Bank
Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation
Morton Kelly Charitable Trust
Moser Family Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
New England Biolabs Foundation
New England Foundation for the Arts
New England States Touring Grants
Norway Savings Bank
Onion Foundation

Samuel L Cohen Foundation
Solidarity Book Project – Amherst College
Steven & Tabitha King Foundation
TD Charitable Foundation
Terra Foundation for American Art
The Betterment Fund
The Bitter Southerner
The BlackBaud Giving Fund
The Chipstone Foundation
The Evergreen Foundation
The Lunder Foundation
The Rabkin Foundation
The Roy Hunt Foundation
The Windgate Charitable Foundation
United Way
VIA Art Fund/Wagener Foundation
Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation
Warner Music Group Inc
Welch Charitable Fund

Corporate Sponsors and Supporters

At IAA partnering with businesses whose missions align with what we do and what we believe furthers our work. The larger community provides a home, a space, an audience and a springboard for our efforts. True allyship is welcome.