The National Endowment for the Arts’ State & Regional Partnership Agreement grants are awarded to the nation’s 56 state and jurisdictional arts agencies (SAAs), and the six regional arts organizations (RAOs) whose members comprise SAAs. Partnership support is also available to the national service organization for the state arts agencies.
Donor Name: National Endowment for the Arts
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of the Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/29/2022
Size of the Grant: $200,000 – $1,000,000
Details:
Partnership Agreement support enables these agencies and organizations to respond to needs identified through public planning undertaken with their constituents, partners, and stakeholders. This investment in locally-determined priorities extends federal reach and impact, translating national leadership into the local benefit.
State Partnership Agreements
National Endowment for the Arts Partnership Agreements to State Arts Agencies (SAAs) makes the arts available in more communities than it could through direct grants. The SAAs greatly extend the federal reach and impact, translating national leadership into the local benefit.
Goals and Objectives
While providing leadership for their states, the SAAs also work cooperatively with the National Endowment for the Arts to achieve common goals and objectives. Partnership Agreement funding enables the SAAs to address objectives among those identified at the state level as well as by the National Endowment for the Arts, which may include:
- Engagement
- Folk Arts Partnership
- Learning
- International Activities
- Health & Well-Being
- Strengthening Communities
- Capacity-Building
- Research
- Technology
Regional Partnership Agreements
The National Endowment for the Arts encouraged the development of RAOs to cultivate the touring of artists to sparsely populated and underserved areas of the country.
Goals and Objectives
The federal investment in this area is predicated on each RAO executing an inclusive and responsive planning process in response to constituent needs. Partnership Agreement funding enables the RAOs to address objectives among those identified at the regional level as well as by the National Endowment for the Arts, which may include:
- Engagement
- Folk Arts Partnership
- Learning
- International Activities
- Health & Well-Being
- Strengthening Communities
- Capacity-Building
- Research
- Technology
Funds are to be used for projects that provide leadership, training, planning, coordination, and information services that increase accountability and transparency. Support for national services will come out of funds designated by the Congress for the state arts agencies and regional arts organizations.
National Services Partnership Agreement
Limited funds are available for national services that are provided by membership organizations of state arts agencies and regional arts organizations. Funds are to be used for projects that provide leadership, training, planning, coordination, and information services that increase accountability and transparency. Support for national services will come out of funds designated by the Congress for the state arts agencies and regional arts organizations.
Funding Information
- State Partnership Agreements
- Agencies must request a waiver from the cost share/matching requirement for amounts above the first $200,000 of the funds.
- National Services Partnership Agreement
- Grants generally will range from $500,000 to $1,000,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility Requirements for Regional Arts Organizations
In order to enter into a Partnership Agreement with the National Endowment for the Arts, a regional arts organization must:
- Be comprised of at least three state arts agency (SAA) members.
- Conduct a comprehensive and inclusive planning process that engages SAAs and other constituents.
- Develop programs and services that respond to recommendations from the planning process.
- Establish metrics for accomplishing goals and measuring progress in relation to the RAO’s plan.
- Base program funding decisions on criteria that rely primarily upon artistic excellence and artistic merit.
- Maintain sound fiscal and administrative procedures.
- Meet the National Endowment for the Arts’ Legal Requirements at the time of application.
Regional arts organizations that subgrant must:
- Require their grantees to provide UEI numbers before a grant can be made.
- Report grants of $30,000 or more in federal funds and information about the compensation of executives related to those grants to the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act Subaward Reporting System (FSRS).
- Ensure that all sub-awards made with Federal or cost share/matching funds are in compliance with the General Terms and Conditions for the National Endowment for the Arts award, including requirements for pass-through entities as provided under 2 CFR 200.331.
State Partnership Agreements
The state arts agency must:
- Be domiciled within the State.
- Be designated by its State government as programmatically and administratively responsible for developing a statewide arts plan and establishing arts and cultural policy having a statewide impact.
- Be designated as officially responsible for coordinating and administering all financial support received from the National Endowment for the Arts and the State in conjunction with the state arts agency Partnership Agreement.
- Have designated staff with relevant experience; a designated budget; and an independent board, council, or commission whose members serve in an advisory or policy-making capacity.
National Services Partnership Agreement
To be eligible, the applicant organization must:
- Meet the National Endowment for the Arts’ “Legal Requirements” including nonprofit, tax-exempt status at the time of application. All organizations must apply directly on their own behalf. Applications through a fiscal sponsor/agent are not allowed.
- Prior to the application deadline, have a three-year history of arts programming as a membership organization serving state arts agencies and regional arts organizations. For the purpose of defining eligibility, “three-year history” refers to when an organization began its programming and not when it incorporated or received nonprofit, tax-exempt status.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
