The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is seeking applications for its 2025 Our Town Grant Program.
Donor Name: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/01/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Our Town is the NEA’s creative placemaking grants program. Through project-based funding, the program supports activities that integrate arts, culture, and design into local efforts that strengthen communities over the long term. Our Town projects engage a wide range of local stakeholders in efforts to advance local economic, physical, and/or social outcomes in communities. Competitive projects are responsive to unique local conditions, develop meaningful and substantive engagement in communities, center equity, advance artful lives, and lay the groundwork for long-term systems change.
The program demonstrates the ways in which artists, culture bearers, and designers can help to:
- Elevate or bring new attention to key community assets and issues, voices of residents, local history, or civic infrastructure;
- Inject new or additional energy, resources, activity, people, or enthusiasm into a place, community issue, or local economy;
- Envision new possibilities for a community or place—a new future, a way of approaching a new opportunity, overcoming a challenge, or problem-solving;
- Connect communities, people, places, and economic opportunity through physical spaces or new partnerships and relationships; or
- Honor traditions shaped by the lived experience of a community’s residents, such as music, dance, design, crafts, fashion, cuisine, and oral expression.
Funding Information
Applicants may request an amount between $25,000-$150,000.
Project Period
Grants awarded under these guidelines generally may cover a period of performance of up to two years.
Eligibility Criteria
Organizations eligible to apply include:
- Nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3), U.S. organizations;
- Nonprofit institutions of higher education;
- Units of local government; or
- Federally recognized tribal communities or tribes.
Eligibility Criteria
- All applications are submitted by one organization (the eligible applicant) and require one partner organization (the required partner). The applicant-partner pair must include 1) a nonprofit organization and 2) a local governmental or quasi-governmental entity. The pair will provide leadership for the project. Additional partners across all sectors are encouraged.
- As a program of the NEA, Our Town seeks to support projects that clearly center arts, culture, and design. As such, if neither the nonprofit organization nor the local governmental entity have the requisite arts, culture, or design expertise necessary to carry out the project, a third partner with that arts, culture, or design expertise is required.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
