About Unrestricted Funds
About Unrestricted Funds
Unrestricted Funds was formed in 2020 by Ambrose Trataris during the pandemic as a way to make funding opportunities more accessible with a focus on awards averaging over $1,000, prioritizing BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ applicants and projects, and unrestricted funding. The database is designed to make key information more clear to grant seekers so they can determine their eligibility and competitiveness easier and faster. Unrestricted Funds has expanded to provide additional tools to grant seekers including deadline calendars, open source grant templates, and free one-on-one consultations.
Mama Celeste
High Priestess of Financial Strategies
Mama Celeste (they/them) is the co-founder and Executive Director of Oaklash, a queer arts nonprofit that hosts large scale events, facilitates mutual aid, and provides mentorship for emerging queer and trans leaders in nightlife. Celeste has worked in the field of arts and LGBTQ nonprofits for over a decade, and performs in drag and DJs nationally.
Ambrose Trataris
Founder
Ambrose Trataris (he/they) is an artist, curator, fundraiser, and entrepreneur with 10 years of experience in producing the creative visions of organizational leaders and artists with a focus on building pathways towards sustainable long term success. They connect ideas to resources, expanding networks of collaboration across communities to increase the visibility of racially diverse, trans/queer, and disabled creatives and projects.
They have cultivated and managed institutional partnerships with a focus on exhibition making, community engagement, and expanding audiences with institutions such as the de Young Museum, City Lights, Aggregate Space Gallery, KADIST, SFMOMA, CounterPulse, Fort Mason Center for the Arts and Culture, Heavy Breathing, and MoAD. Trataris co-founded Art Handlxrs* (2016-Present) and R/SF projects (2016-2019) and currently works as the Manager of Grants & Donor Relations at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University.
Contact: ambrosetrataris@gmail.com
