Deadline: 23-Jan-2025
Arts Midwest has launched the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Grant Program to support community reading programs designed around a single NEA Big Read book.
The goal of this program is to inspire meaningful conversations, celebrate local creativity, elevate a wide variety of voices and perspectives, and build stronger connections in each community.
Theme
- Programming for the 2025-2026 grant cycle will center around the theme Our Nature: How Our Physical Environment Can Lead Us to Seek Hope, Courage, and Connection.
- Applicants will facilitate book discussions, writing workshops, and creative programming activities that explore this theme and celebrate the unique aspects of their communities.
Funding Information
- Organizations may request a grant ranging from $5,000 and $20,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants
- 501c3 non-profit organizations and other federally tax-exempt entities including, but not limited to: universities/colleges, school districts, public libraries, tribal organizations, museums, and community service organizations.
- Organizations located within the United States, US Territories, and the Native Nations that share this geography.
- Arts and cultural organizations in any arts discipline (literature, performing arts, visual arts, traditional arts, multidisciplinary arts, etc.) or nonprofit organizations that provide arts programming (social service agencies, etc.)
- Organizations that do not have overdue reports or funding moratoria with Arts Midwest.
Ineligible applicants
- Individual elementary or secondary schools
- For-profit business or organizations
- Individual artists, ensembles, and artist’s agents
- Applicants using fiscal sponsorship
For more information, visit Arts Midwest.