The Baltimore National Heritage Area is accepting applications for its Neighborhood Placemaking Grant Program.
Donor Name: Baltimore National Heritage Area
State: Maryland
City: Baltimore
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/10/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The goal of the Neighborhood Placemaking Grant Program is to assist neighborhoods:
- With enhancing their quality of life through heritage tourism stewardship;
- Become more visitor-friendly and visitor-ready;
- Balance community and tourism; and
- Increase awareness of the Baltimore National Heritage Area and its resources for neighborhoods.
Funding Information
$1,500-$5,000 with a $1 for $1 match required of the grantee. The match can be any combination of cash or in-kind support appropriate to the project (Example: Requesting a $2,000 award/$2,000 match by grantee for a $4,000 total project cost.
Grant Period
The project must be completed between February 1, 2025– February 1, 2026 (funds used prior to this date cannot be reimbursed).
Eligible Activities
The Neighborhood Placemaking Grant Program may only be used to fund non-capital projects within the below three priority areas. This list is not intended to be exhaustive, but projects must align with one or more priority areas:
- Navigate Your Neighborhood
- Festivals, performances, reenactments, and events that promote heritage tourism and attract visitors (virtually or with a COVID contingency plan). Projects that aid in navigating through neighborhoods such as interpretive signage, pedestrian wayfinding signage, interpretive brochures, development of online navigation platforms and apps, walking tours, educational programs, and materials, other interpretive activities that support the heritage area’s neighborhoods. This includes in-person and virtual offerings.
- Plan Your Neighborhood
- Planning and feasibility studies for capital projects, vacant lot development planning, market research, branding and marketing projects, research for content development, and project evaluation surveys.
- Green Your Neighborhood
- Projects that promote neighborhood greening activities, environmental stewardship, cleanliness, beautification, citizen community education, and stewardship.
- Safety in your Neighborhood
- Projects that support small facility improvements for safety (lighting, fencing, security cameras, etc.)
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants are non-profit organizations and tax-exempt community/neighborhood associations in good standing with the Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation, qualified to do business in Maryland, and have the legal capacity and authority to incur obligations involved under the grant program.
For more information, visit BNHA.
