Subject: Arts, Culture, Community Development, Arts Education
Deadline: Aug. 9, 2018
“These grants support projects that integrate arts, culture, and design activities into efforts that strengthen communities by advancing local economic, physical, and/or social outcomes. Successful Our Town projects ultimately lay the groundwork for systemic changes that sustain the integration of arts, culture, and design into strategies for strengthening communities.
Our Town offers support for projects in two areas:
- Place-Based Projects – Through arts engagement, cultural planning, design, and/or artist/creative industry support, these projects contribute to improved quality of life in local communities. These projects require a partnership between a nonprofit organization and a local government entity, with one of the partners being a cultural organization.
- Knowledge Building Projects – These projects build and disseminate knowledge about how to leverage arts, culture, and design as mechanisms for strengthening communities. These grants are available to arts service or design service organizations, and/or other national or regional membership, policy, or university-based organizations. These projects require a partnership that will facilitate the knowledge sharing and/or exchange.
Funder: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Eligibility: “Place-Based Projects: (1) Nonprofit tax-exempt 501(c)(3) U.S. organizations with a documented three-year history of programming; (2) Local governments (counties, parishes, cities, towns, villages, or federally recognized tribal governments). Local arts agencies or other departments, agencies, or entities within an eligible local government may submit the application on behalf of that local government.
Knowledge Building Projects: (1) Arts and design organizations that provide services to the field; (2) National and regional organizations or university-based organizations that provide training or assistance to those doing local community development work. This may include professionals that work in local communities across a variety of sectors (such as arts and culture, agriculture and food, economic development, education and youth, environment and energy, health, housing, public safety, transportation, and workforce development) who wish to engage in creative placemaking activities.”
Amount: Place-Based Projects: $25,000 – $200,000 | Knowledge Building Projects: $25,000 – $100,000
Contact: Link.
