Merola Career Grants
Supporting our artists after the summer
All Merola alumni are eligible for career grants for five years after they leave the program, up to $6,000 a year and up to $12,000 over the full five years. Merola Opera Program gratefully acknowledges the donors who have provided special support to our young artists.
For Merola Alumni
If you participated in Merola within the last five years, you may be eligible for a Merola Career Grant. Grants are awarded for specific uses, such as voice lessons, language study, special coaching, audition and/or competition tour, the learning of a particular role, etc. Artists must complete an application and include a proposed budget (in U.S. dollars) before being considered. The application must indicate the specific need for which the artist is requesting funds.
Merola is now accepting career grant applications through the online platform, Submittable.
Click HERE to submit your career grant application.
Click HERE to return career grant monies.
Career Grant Usage Reports are due within four months after the application date and prior to any subsequent applications (even if it has been less than four months). If a Usage Report is not submitted within four months after the career grant application date, and before any subsequent application, or if it shows that funds were used for purposes other than those requested, and approval by Merola was neither sought nor given, a Career Grant application may not be considered from that applicant for another two quarterly grant cycles. Usage Report links are sent through Submittable. If you need a new link, email tgrant@merola.org.
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If you have any questions, please email careergrants@merola.org.
Merola Career Grant Donors
Dr. Phyllis B. Blair Career Grant – Drs. Sidney & Phyllis Blair Fund
Florence Bruce Career Grant – Mrs. Starr Bruce Endowment Fund
Jean Donnell Memorial Career Grant – In Memory of Jean Donnell Fund
Richard & Rhoda Goldman Career Grant – Mr. Richard N. Goldman Fund
Gropper Memorial Career Grant – Alfred Fromm & Otto E. Meyer, in Memory of Dr. Angel Gropper
E. A. Haggerty Memorial Career Grant – Larry L. Hillblom Foundation
David S. Hugle Career Grant – Mr. David S. Hugle
Peter G. Kavantjas Career Grant – In memory of Peter G. Kavantjas Endowment Fund
Li Foundation Career Grant – Li Foundation Scholarship Fund for Chinese Singers
Merola Alumni Career Grant – Merola Opera Program Alumni
Albert L. Mosher & John E. McCormick AIDS Memorial Career Grant – Albert L. Mosher & John E. McCormick AIDS Memorial Fund
The Bernard Osher Foundation Career Grant – The Bernard Osher Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Bernhardt Poetz Memorial Career Grant – A Friend of Merola
Mary A. Powell Career Grant – Mary A. Powell Fund
Schick Memorial Career Grant – Schick Memorial Fund
Schwabacher Family Career Grant – Mr. James H. Schwabacher
Fred M. Levin and Nancy Livingston
The Shenson Foundation in memory of Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson
Richard Strauss Opera Career Grant – G. William Jewell, in memory of Mr. Robert C. Silvering
Dickson Titus III Career Grant – Dickson Titus III Fund
For more information on how you can support Merola Opera Program Artists and Alumni with a Career Grant, contact:
Tracy Grant
Director of Institutional & Individual Giving
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