The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is seeking applications for its 2025 Military Healing Arts Network Program.
Donor Name: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: (mm/dd/yyyy) 07/16/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network (Creative Forces) is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts (Agency or NEA) in partnership with the U.S. Departments of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (VA). The mission of Creative Forces is to improve the health, well-being, and quality of life for military and veteran populations exposed to trauma, as well as their families and caregivers, by increasing knowledge of and access to clinical creative arts therapies and community arts engagement. The initiative has three components:
- Clinical
- Since 2012, Creative Forces has placed creative arts therapies at the core of patient-centered care at military medical and Veteran Health Administration facilities, including telehealth delivery of care for patients in rural and remote areas. In clinical settings, creative arts therapists provide art, music, dance/movement therapies for military patients and veterans, as well as support for community-based arts engagement activities to promote health and wellbeing for patients, staff and their families.
- Community
- Since 2017, Creative Forces has invested in community-based arts engagement activities in order to advance understanding of their benefits and impacts for military and veteran populations exposed to trauma. In 2021, the NEA announced the Creative Forces Community Engagement Grants to support emerging and established community-based arts engagement projects.
- Capacity
- Creative Forces invests in capacity-building efforts, including the development of toolkits, training materials, and other resources to support promising practices in serving military and veteran populations.
The purpose of this Program Solicitation is to select an organization (Cooperator) to support the Community component of Creative Forces through the implementation and administration of the Creative Forces Community Engagement Grant Program (the Grant Program). The Grant Program is a competitive grant program that seeks to improve the health, well-being, and quality of life for military and veteran populations exposed to trauma, as well as their families and caregivers through community-based arts engagement activities.
Funding Information
The NEA expects to award one Cooperative Agreement of up to $1,750,000.
Period of Performance
This Cooperative Agreement will begin on or after July 1, 2025, and may extend for up to 39 months.
Eligiblity Criteria
Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
