The Mid-America Arts Alliance is seeking applications for its Creative Forces Community Engagement Grants.
Donor Name: Mid-America Arts Alliance
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant | Matching Grants
Deadline: 01/17/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Creative Forces Community Engagement Grant is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in partnership with Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA). This grant program aims to improve the health, well-being, and quality of life for military service members and veterans exposed to trauma as well as their families and caregivers through experiences of art or art making.
Creative Forces seeks to improve the health, well-being, and quality of life for military service members and veterans 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.
These Creative Forces Community Engagement Grants are intended to support non-clinical arts engagement programs taking place in healthcare, community, or virtual settings. Creative Forces-supported community programs have involved a range of arts activities, including visual, written, and performing arts offered through single events, drop-in programs, and ongoing engagement led by artists in residence, teaching artists, or creative arts therapists.
Funding Information
Matching grant awards of $10,000–$50,000 will be awarded to approximately 35 applicants to support projects that engage targeted military-connected individuals through experiences of art or art-making.
Eligibility Criteria
The Applicant Organization must:
- be a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)3, U.S. organization, a unit of state or local government, or a federally recognized tribal community or tribe located in the U.S. (including the District of Columbia and all U.S. territories as well as the Native nations that share that geography);
- have either a minimum of three years’ experience:
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- programming for/with military communities or
- presenting/producing arts-based projects;
- have completed a three-year history of programming prior to the application deadline. Programming is not required to have taken place during consecutive years.
- compensate all professional artists or supporting professional personnel at no less than the prevailing minimum compensation in accordance with with Part 505 of Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).
- apply directly on their own behalf. have a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), created in the System for Award Management [SAM.gov],
- be in good standing with M-AAA, the NEA, and all other federal agencies, with no delinquent reports and/or grant documents;
- commit to M-AAA’s Grantee Assurance of Compliance and Federal Suspension and Disbarment Policy; and
- agree to acknowledge M-AAA and the NEA in all programs and press materials related to the project if funded.
For more information, visit Mid-America Arts Alliance.
