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NEA Our Town, FY2022
Grant Program Description Our Town is the National Endowment for the Arts’ creative placemaking grants program.
Through project-based funding, we 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 local strategies for strengthening communities.
These projects require a partnership between a local government entity and nonprofit organization, one of which must be a cultural organization; and should engage in partnership with other sectors (such as agriculture and food, economic development, education and youth, environment and energy, health, housing, public safety, transportation, and workforce development).
Cost share/matching grants range from $25,000 to $150,000, with a minimum cost share/match equal to the grant amount.
The Arts Endowment’s support of a project may start on July 1, 2022, or any time thereafter.
A grant period of up to two years is allowed.
An organization may submit as a lead applicant two applications to Our Town.
A partnering organization may serve as a partner on as many applications as they like.
You may apply to other National Endowment for the Arts funding opportunities, including Grants for Arts Projects, in addition to Our Town.
In each case, the request must be for a distinctly different project, or a distinctly different phase of a project.
If you have applied to the Arts Endowment in the past and were not recommended for funding, you may apply again to any funding opportunity, including Our Town.
Through project-based funding, we 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 local strategies for strengthening communities.
These projects require a partnership between a local government entity and nonprofit organization, one of which must be a cultural organization; and should engage in partnership with other sectors (such as agriculture and food, economic development, education and youth, environment and energy, health, housing, public safety, transportation, and workforce development).
Cost share/matching grants range from $25,000 to $150,000, with a minimum cost share/match equal to the grant amount.
The Arts Endowment’s support of a project may start on July 1, 2022, or any time thereafter.
A grant period of up to two years is allowed.
An organization may submit as a lead applicant two applications to Our Town.
A partnering organization may serve as a partner on as many applications as they like.
You may apply to other National Endowment for the Arts funding opportunities, including Grants for Arts Projects, in addition to Our Town.
In each case, the request must be for a distinctly different project, or a distinctly different phase of a project.
If you have applied to the Arts Endowment in the past and were not recommended for funding, you may apply again to any funding opportunity, including Our Town.
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National Endowment for the Arts
Agency: National Endowment for the Arts
Office: National Endowment for the Arts
Estimated Funding: $1,000,000
Office: National Endowment for the Arts
Estimated Funding: $1,000,000
Who's Eligible
Relevant Nonprofit Program Categories
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
NEA Website Announcement
Additional Information of Eligibility:
Eligible applicants include nonprofit private or public organizations, including local and/or regional community-based organizations (CBOs), with demonstrated experience in implementing public health programs, particularly in medically underserved areas.
This includes Tribes and Tribal organizations.
Applicants may engage as individual organizations or create a partnership of organizations with the capacity to complete program activities (i.e.
one award recipient with one or multiple subrecipient organizations).
Program activities include hiring community outreach workers from the vulnerable and medically underserved communities they will serve and reaching out to these communities; specifically the areas or populations with low vaccination rates to date.
Applicants should use recent, relevant data sources to identify counties and target populations of need (see Section IV.7).
Full Opportunity Web Address:
https://www.arts.gov/grants/our-town
Contact:
Agency Email Description:
NEA Web Manager
Agency Email:
Date Posted:
2021-05-21
Application Due Date:
Archive Date:
2021-08-08
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