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Write to Unrestricted Funds for upcoming grant applications, consultation on fundraising, to donate funds or services, and for all press inquiries.
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.
About Ambrose Trataris
Founder / Director
Trataris 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).
