Deadline: 11 September 2017
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is seeking applications for its grant program “Our Town” to support creative placemaking projects that help to transform communities into lively, beautiful, and resilient places achieving these community goals through strategies that incorporate arts, culture, and/or design.
This funding supports local efforts to enhance quality of life and opportunity for existing residents, increase creative activity, and create or preserve a distinct sense of place.
Funding Areas
Our Town offers support for projects in two areas:
- Arts Engagement, Cultural Planning, and Design Projects. These projects represent the distinct character and quality of their communities. These projects require a partnership between a nonprofit organization and a local government entity, with one of the partners being a cultural organization. Matching grants range from $25,000 to $200,000.
- Projects that Build Knowledge About Creative Placemaking. These projects are available to arts and design service organizations, and industry, policy, or university organizations that provide technical assistance to those doing place-based work. Matching grants range from $25,000 to $100,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Arts Engagement, Cultural Planning, and Design Projects:
- All applications require partnerships that involve at least two primary partners as defined by these guidelines: a nonprofit organization and a local governmental entity. One of the two primary partners must be a cultural (arts or design) organization. Additional partners are encouraged.
- Nonprofit tax-exempt 501(c)(3) U.S. organizations with a documented three-year history of programming.
- Local governments. For the purposes of these guidelines, local governments are defined as 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. The following do not qualify as local governments: state level government agencies, other state-designated entities, state higher education institutions, regional governments and entities, quasi-government organizations, regional planning organizations, and business improvement districts.
- For U.S. territories, if no local government exists, the territory government can serve as the local government.
- Meet the National Endowment for the Arts “Legal Requirements,” including nonprofit, tax-exempt status, at the time of application.
- Have submitted acceptable Final Report packages by the due date(s) for all National Endowment for the Arts award(s) previously received.
- Projects that Build Knowledge About Creative Placemaking:
- Arts and design organizations that provide services to the field.
- National and regional place-based industry or university-based organizations that provide technical assistance to those doing place-based economic and/or community development work. This may include housing, transportation, public safety, public health, and economic development organizations who wish to engage in creative placemaking activities.
- Meet the Arts Endowment’s “Legal Requirements” including nonprofit, tax-exempt status at the time of application.
- Have a three-year history of programming prior to the application deadline.
- Have submitted acceptable Final Report packages by the due date(s) for all Arts Endowment awards(s) previously received.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via given website.
For more information, please visit this link.