Art Berg Fund Grant

Applications for 2025 will open soon!

Each year, one $5,000 grant is awarded to a 501(c)3 organization needing financial assistance in developing and/or deploying a technology-related project that will enhance communication for the benefit of the clients they serve. To be eligible, 

  • An NSA member must submit the grant application on the organization's behalf.
  • The NSA member must demonstrate their active involvement in the organization (board member, standing committee chair/member, and/or regular volunteer).
  • Grants must be used for a technology-related project that enhances communications
  • The organization must be recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)3.
  • Applications are due by May 1, 2025.

 

For more information, contact  NSAFCares@NSAFoundation.org.

 

About the Art Berg Fund Grant

 

The National Speakers Association (NSA) Foundation serves members and the public through various scholarships and grants. One such grant, named in honor of the late Art Berg—world-class wheelchair athlete and motivational speaker—was created to assist NSA members of a 501(c)(3) organization with funding technology-related projects that enhance communication.

Each year, one grant is awarded in the amount of $5,000. Examples of eligible projects include:

  • Creating and distributing free audio packages to the blind.
  • Providing software and/or hardware to after-school programs.
  • Developing a wireless project to connect at-risk children and/or their parents to 911 hotlines.
  • Establishing educational programs in sign language to parents/siblings of deaf children.
  • Funding research to identify ways volunteers can use technology to assist the elderly demographic.


    Congratulations to the 2024 Art Berg Fund Grant Recipient: 

    Infinite Flow Dance!

     

    Infinite Flow Dance is an award-winning Los Angeles-based professional dance company that employs disabled and nondisabled dancers with diverse, intersectional identities. As a nonprofit, our mission is to advance disability inclusion, one dance at a time. 

    Infinite Flow was founded by Marisa Hamamoto, a stroke survivor and late-diagnosed Autistic. Marisa recently became the first professional dancer named People Magazine's “Women Changing the World.”

    Infinite Flow Dance is a robust social justice entity committed to radical inclusion, systems change, and producing transformational experiences. Infinite Flow Dance is available for performances, keynotes, panels, school assemblies, and accessibility & inclusion workshops, virtually and in person.

    Learn More About Infinite Flow Dance At: https://www.infiniteflowdance.org/

 

Art Berg Fund Grant Recipients
2024 - Infinite Flow Dance 2014 - The Coach Initiative, Inc.
2023 - Fourthwall Youth Studios 2013- Together We Can Change the World
2022 - Empower Mali 2012 - ShareTheCaregiving™, Inc.
2021 - Johnny's Ambassadors 2011 - Second Wind Dreams ®
2020- SPARK, Eastern Tennessee Technology Access Center 2010 - Impact on Education
2019- Global Service Initiative, Delta Upsilon Fraternity 2009 - Metrocrest Social Services
2018- Summer Santa, Inc. 2008 - Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
2017- Empowering Lives and Building Foundations 2007 - Royce Arbour, Inc. – Hands-on Help for Management
2016- The Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor 2006 - Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor
2015- The Kugler Education Fund at South Africa Partners 2005 - American Immigration Law Foundation

 

“The support of NSA’s Art Berg Fund Grant will bring enormous benefits to the children and families of A.V. Bukani Primary School in a rural South African township. Now, the entire community will have greater access to books, something the wonderful people of this community so richly deserve.”

—Eileen Kugler, Trustee of The Kugler Education Fund at South Africa Partners