NET/TEN Grants

An Update on the Status of the NET/TEN Program
(February 2023)

The NET/TEN program will not continue at this time. 

After distributing more than $1.3 million in funding support to NET members through 500+ grant awards from 2012-2022, we’ve reached the end of a 10-year funding cycle for the NET/ TEN (NET Travel & Exchange Network) program—an initiative born out of field needs identified almost 15 years ago. Rather than leap into a new cycle, we’re turning our resources—human and financial—toward understanding what the field needs and wants now, and what’s on the horizon.

Designed to create opportunities for reciprocal relationship-building and knowledge-sharing through open-ended exploration and exchange, the NET/TEN program has strengthened the ensemble arts field immeasurably. We’re grateful to the Mellon Foundation’s generous lead funding (and for the early support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation), which made the program possible all these years. 

Details of its impact will live on the Shareback Library, NET/TEN’s digital repository of artist reflections and peer-based learning. Over the coming months we’ll upload all the grantee sharebacks to the Library, and so carry the rich knowledge base of NET/TEN’s legacy forward. We will also update the Library’s interface and search functions to enhance its ongoing value as an online field resource. Meanwhile, NET staff will continue to guide and support the final 2021-22 round of grantees through the year ahead, as project periods wrap up their supported activities and reporting.