Deadline: 18-Jan-22
The Tennessee Arts Commission is pleased to announce the Creative Placemaking to help build stronger communities through the arts for positive economic and community outcomes.
In Creative Placemaking, partners from public, private, nonprofit, and community sectors strategically shape the physical and social character of their neighborhood, town, city, or region around arts and cultural activities or assets.
The Creative Placemaking grant competition is designed to help communities enhance the distinctive local character of Tennessee places for positive economic and community outcomes.
Funding Information
Creative Placemaking grant awards may range from $10,000 to $15,000 for projects that occur in one place. Applications that involve partnerships of two or more towns, cities, and/or counties can request up to $20,000. At least two awards will be made to eligible rural applicants.
Eligibility Criteria
- Engaging public and private partners is often critical to the success of local development activities through the arts. To increase the likelihood of success and sustainability, the Commission encourages communities to involve public, private (including nonprofit organizations), and institutional partners in the development of a CP grant proposal.
- The lead applicant is eligible to apply if the organization meets one of the following qualifications:
- The organization is an entity of local government or regional quasi-governmental entity (development district, human resource agency, etc.)
- The applicant is a nonprofit organization legally chartered in Tennessee and in possession of a determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service declaring the organization exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code
- Debarment and Suspension. Grantees are required to sign contracts certifying to the best of its knowledge and belief, that it, its current and future principals, its current and future subcontractors and their principals are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, declared ineligible, or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by any federal or state department or agency.
- Schools, colleges and universities are ineligible to serve as lead applicants, although they would be welcome as partners. All Creative Placemaking grants will be awarded and disbursed to lead applicants only.
For more information, visit https://tnartscommission.org/grants/creative-placemaking-grants-competition/