Creative Placemaking Funding is to help build stronger communities through the arts for positive economic and community outcomes. The Creative Placemaking grant competition is designed to help communities enhance the distinctive local character of Tennessee places for positive economic and community outcomes.
Donor Name: Tennessee Arts Commission
State: Tennessee
Counties: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 01/18/2022
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $15,000
Grant Duration: 11 Months 15 Days
Details:
Successful CP applications will demonstrate how proposed projects will materially improve the physical and social character of their neighborhoods, districts, municipalities, or regions through arts and cultural activities or assets. Funding will depend upon an application’s rating from the review process and the total amount of funds available to the Tennessee Arts Commission for grant allocation. In addition to merit ratings, the Commission seeks a diversity of project designs, locations and community settings across Tennessee for CP projects. This category is competitive.
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.
Applications must clearly show a 1:4 cash or in-kind match commitment by the applicant. That is, for every $4 of Commission funding requested, the grantee must provide a minimum of $1.
For Projects Occurring
FY2023: July 1, 2022 – June 15, 2023
Eligibility Requirements
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.
Examples of eligible projects or activities may include but are not limited to:
- Arts used as a catalyst to revitalize downtowns or neighborhoods.
- Development of an arts or cultural business incubator or apprenticeship program.
- Transformation of a perceived community liability into a community asset through the arts.
- Development of an activity or project that encourages greater engagement with the arts in state parks, farmer’s markets, or other natural, unique ecological or recreational assets.
Ineligible Projects for CP Grant category
- Operating support for arts organizations or ongoing arts programming.
- Marketing and promotional materials (project related wayfinding signage is an allowable expense).
- Standard Commission funding restrictions. However, for the CP grant category only, costs for equipment, if integral to the project, are allowable.
Arts organizations that receive revenue directly from a “New Specialty Earmarked Plate” under T.C.A 55-4-215 (a) (1) are ineligible for Commission grant funding.
For more information, visit Creative Placemaking.
