The main goal of the article is to present the first comprehensive and universal mechanism of financing of culture in Poland – state-earmarked fund, the Culture Development Fund. I present the circumstances of the birth of the idea, the creation and functioning of the Fund. This is one of the most interesting examples of cultural policy reforms in Poland – in the article I present the pros and cons of this solution. This text is part of institutional research on the organization and financing of theater in the People’s Republic of Poland. 

The publication deals with the topic of raising funds from public and private sources by organizers of classical music festivals in Poland. It presents the results of own research in which an attempt was made to find an answer to the question from what sources how and with what result do the organizers of classical music festivals obtain funds for their implementation? The research was conducted in the field of obtaining funds for the implementation of the Festival “Music in Old Krakow” in the years 2011–2020. Nowadays, one of the most valued competences of people involved in organizing festivals is the ability to raise funds, as financing festivals from various sources is not only an art but it has become a necessity. 

The literary prize is one of the basic categories of the literary field. According to the latest research, the institution of an award is also the most effective capital conversion tool. It broadens the understanding of the term economics by its non-intuitive scope – the economy of culture. Thanks to the existence of prizes, economic capital turns out to be only one of the variants of capital, and the field of culture reveals the principle of transaction that guides it. The literary award is not only a tool for the exchange of capital, but also allows to see the dimension of social mission, tasks of governments, negotiating relationships between the public and private sectors. Prizes as well align the story of literary life, axiology and social reception of works by drawing an alternative history of Polish and world literature of late modernity, marked by awards themselves. 

Difficulties with financing cultural activities are a subject of many analysis throughout the years as well as many attempts of finding a way to construct a balanced cultural policy at both the state and local government level. Facing those, culture is a sector that is at the forefront of attempts to raise funds for independent initiatives in a non-standard way. The article presents the analysis of three cases of cultural projects of a fundamentally non-institutional and bottom-up nature, as well as crossing sector boundaries. It points to the difficulties that such activities face, while identifying the existing potential and willingness to undertake non-financially motivated cultural actions. In connection with development of the phenomenon of self-organization in culture, as well as the privatization and deinstitutionalisation of cultural participation, there is a need to change the approach of financing cultural activities and actively going beyond the existing framework of cooperation in this field. 

This article deals with issues of cultural management, and in particular the acquisition of financial resources from European Union funds. It analyzes the possibilities of financing the development of culture with funds allocated to innovation, research and development. Its purpose is to diagnose the barriers encountered by Polish enterprises conducting research and development activity in the area of KIS 13 “Intelligent creative technologies” when designing and obtaining funding. The article is based on evaluation studies of national and regional intelligent specializations, materials related to the assessment procedure and evaluation of projects, observations of the author assessing projects submitted for co-financing, and thus new scientific sources.