The Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) is excited to announce the Regional Touring Program.
Donor Name: Mid-America Arts Alliance
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: All Time
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) partners with and supports artists, cultural organizations, and communities to grow access to the arts, culture, and creativity. This program is made possible by the generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Promotion of the Arts Partnership Agreements. M-AAA invites eligible in-region cultural organizations (also known as the “Presenters”) to apply for this grant funding to support projects bringing touring artists to their state.
The Regional Touring Program (RTP) grant supports projects by organizations (also known as “Presenters”) showcasing the work of touring artists from another state in the M-AAA region. Organizations must be incorporated in M-AAA’s six-state region (Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas).
Funding Information
Grants Up to $5,000.
Grant Period
July 1, 2026, and June 30, 2027.
Eligible Projects
Eligible projects must:
Include work that spans one or more creative disciplines, including, but not limited to:
- Dance/movement (Ballet, Ethnic, Jazz, Tribal, Modern)
- Folk/Traditional Arts (Crafts & Visual Arts, Dance, Music, Oral Traditions/Spoken word, Stand-up comedy/Storytelling)
- Literature (Fiction, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Playwriting, Poetry)
- Music (Band, Chamber, Choral, Ethnic, Jazz, New, Orchestral, Popular, Solo/Recital, Song Writing)
- Opera/Music Theatre (Opera, Musical Theater)
- Theater (General, Mime, Puppet, Theater for Young Audiences, Storytelling)
- Visual Arts (Collage, Experimental, Graphics, Multimedia, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture)
Eligibility Criteria
- As part of M-AAA’s annual grant program, they intend to award eligible applicants (also known as “Presenters”) showcasing a variety of creative disciplines. A “presenter” is defined as an organization that financially compensates an artist/ensemble (where the artist/ensemble is a separate entity from the presenter) for performance(s) in the presenter’s community.
- Artists and art-based organizations that embody and/or serve underserved populations, such as those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by external forces, including geography, race/ethnicity, economics and/or disability
- Artist and art-based organizations located in rural and urban communities; and Artist and art-based organizations applying for the first-time to M-AAA.
- Art-based organizations include arts and culture as a primary focus of a broader mission.
- M-AAA abides by state and federal laws that prohibit public support to organizations (people or entities) that discriminate against people with disabilities. All of the partners and grantees—that includes exhibition venues, grant recipients, and presenting organizations—are required to ensure that they are in compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).
- Organizational Applicants must:
- Be a 501(c)3 tax-exempt nonprofit organization, a unit of state or local government, or a federally recognized tribal community;
- An independent component of a parent organization may apply if the major focus is arts and culture, and the parent organization is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt nonprofit organization. For example, a separate campus location that is part of the same university system may apply if they have separately identifiable and independent components.
- Educational institutions (e.g., charter, private, public schools) are eligible to apply.
- Be incorporated in and currently conducting business in one or more states in the M-AAA region, which includes Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas;
- Have arts and culture explicitly stated as central to the organization’s mission. An arts-based organization that includes arts and culture as a primary focus of a larger mission may apply if its larger mission is centered on serving a specific cultural group;
- Have completed at least a 3-year history of arts engagement before the application deadline. Examples of your organization’s arts programming do not have to be from consecutive years or seasons. They know that most applicants were disrupted by the pandemic. As a result, it is acceptable to list activities from a recent year other than 2023 or 2022. Virtual programming, planning, and COVID-19 recovery activities are all considered to be arts programming.
- For the purpose of defining eligibility, a 3-year history of arts engagement refers to when an organization began its arts programming and not when it incorporated or received nonprofit, tax-exempt status.
- Have and provide a valid 9-digit Employer Identification Number (EIN), which will be verified using the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search Tool at www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/tax-exempt-organization-search;
- Have and provide a valid 12-character alphanumeric (Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) ID, which will be verified in the System for Award Management (SAM) at sam.gov/content/home. M-AAA’s grantees are required to have a valid UEI ID but not an entity registration via SAM.gov. Returning applicants must renew or verify that their registrations are up to date prior to the application deadline. The physical address must match the UEI assigned in SAM.gov. P.O. boxes are not accepted. If the organization has a different address from its mailing address, please provide.
For more information, visit Mid-America Arts Alliance.
