Deadline: 1-Dec-21
The Baltimore National Heritage Area (BNHA) has announced Neighborhood Placemaking Grants (NPG) Program to provide small, but strategic investments in cultural heritage tourism (non-capital) projects within the heritage area.
Goals
The goal of the Neighborhood Placemaking Grant Program is to assist neighborhoods:
- With enhancing their quality of life through heritage tourism stewardship;
- Become more visitor-friendly and visitor-ready;
- Balance community and tourism; and
- Increase awareness of the Baltimore National Heritage Area and its resources for neighborhoods.
Priority Areas
The Neighborhood Placemaking Grant Program may only be used to fund non-capital projects within the below three priority areas. This list is not intended to be exhaustive, but projects must align with one or more priority areas:
- Navigate Your Neighborhood
- Festivals, performances, reenactments, and events that promote heritage tourism and attract visitors (virtually or with a COVID contingency plan). Projects that aid in navigating through neighborhoods such as interpretive signage, pedestrian wayfinding signage, interpretive brochures, development of online navigation platforms and apps, walking tours, educational programs, and materials, other interpretive activities that support the heritage area’s neighborhoods. This includes in-person and virtual offerings. If you are planning any public events, please address a contingent plan due to COVID in your application.
- Plan Your Neighborhood
- Planning and feasibility studies for capital projects, vacant lot development planning, market research, branding and marketing projects, research for content development, and project evaluation surveys.
- Green Your Neighborhood
- Projects that promote neighborhood greening activities, environmental stewardship, cleanliness, beautification, citizen community education, and stewardship.
Funding Information
- This highly competitive grant program awards $25,000 a year and grant amounts range from $1,500 – $5,000 with a required match.
- The project must be completed between February 1, 2022 – February 1, 2023 (funds used prior to this date cannot be reimbursed).
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for a Neighborhood Placemaking Grant, applicant organizations must meet each of the following criteria:
- Be located within the boundary of the state heritage area (or the program/activity will happen within the boundary area). Please be sure to check the BNHA state boundary map to ensure your project is within the heritage area.
- Be a nonprofit organization, tax-exempt community or neighborhood association in good standing with the State of Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation.
- If not a nonprofit organization, the applicant organization agrees to be the fiscal agent responsible for the grant award deliverables (a signed agreement between the fiscal agent and community partner must be uploaded with the full online application.
- Be qualified to do business in Maryland; AND
- Have the legal capacity and authority to incur obligations involved under the grant program.
For more information, visit https://www.explorebaltimore.org/grants/heritage-neighborhoods-grants
