To address these disparities and better understand these dynamics, the NEA, in partnership with South Arts and in collaboration with the five other U.S. Regional Arts Organizations (RAOs), launched a new grant program, ArtsHERE.
Donor Name: United States Regional Arts Organizations
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/19/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
ArtsHERE supports organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to equity within their practices and programming and have undertaken consistent engagement with underserved groups/communities.
Grants are for specific projects that will strengthen the organization’s capacity to sustain meaningful community engagement and increase arts participation for underserved groups/communities.
The intent of ArtsHERE is to strengthen the capacity of organizations that are already engaging with underserved groups/communities to boost arts participation, learn from their experiences in undertaking this work, and connect these organizations to each other and to other relevant entities through technical assistance and peer-learning opportunities intended to bolster, amplify, and extend effective strategies and ways of working. In the long-term, investments made through the ArtsHERE program will build grantees’ capacity to sustain meaningful community engagement, and increase arts participation for underserved groups/communities.
What ArtsHERE Provides?
Funded organizations will receive:
- Investment: Managed by South Arts, ArtsHERE will award approximately 95 nonprofit organizations with nonmatching grants of $65,000 to $130,000. Grants are for specific projects that will strengthen each organization’s capacity to sustain meaningful community engagement and increase arts participation for underserved groups/communities.
- Learning: ArtsHERE will offer grantees peer-learning and technical assistance opportunities, designed to share knowledge and build networks.
- Evaluation: As a pilot program, ArtsHERE will be documented and evaluated by the National Endowment for the Arts to better understand the project activities supported through this program and how grantees approached the work, and to inspire others. The evaluation will result in a summary of lessons learned and may inform the future of ArtsHERE and other similar funding programs and practices.
Who ArtsHERE is for?
Artshere Invests in Organizations that have
- Demonstrated a commitment to equity within their practices and programming
- Undertaken consistent engagement with underserved groups/communities.
Applications are welcome from organizations that are diverse in terms of geography, scale of operations, and focus of arts programming; as well as organizations that work at the intersection of the arts and other domains, such as community development, health/well-being, climate/environment, or economic development.
Funding Information
Grants range from $65,000 to $130,000 each. Grants do not require a cost share/match from the grantee.
Period of Performance
October 1, 2024 and must end not later than June 30, 2026.
Eligibility Criteria
- The following are eligible to apply:
- Nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3), U.S. organizations;
- Federally recognized tribal communities or tribes; or
- Non-federally recognized tribal communities or tribes that are also nonprofit, tax exempt 501(c)(3), U.S. organizations.
- Applicants from the nation’s 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. jurisdictions are eligible to apply.
- The applicant organization must have programs or services centered in arts and/or cultural activities.
- Prior to January 19, 2024, the applicant organization must have completed a three-year history of arts and/or cultural programming.
- For eligibility purposes, “three-year history” refers to when an organization began its programming and not when it incorporated or received nonprofit, tax-exempt status.
- Programming is not required to have taken place during consecutive years.
- Organizations that previously operated as a program of another institution may include arts programming it carried out while part of that institution for its three-year history.
- All applicants must have a Unique Entity Identifier through the System for Award Management (SAM.gov) for the grant to be made.
- The following are not eligible to apply:
- Individuals;
- Applications through a fiscal sponsor/agent (an organization must apply directly on its own behalf and cannot act as a pass-through entity);
- Federal agencies or local departments of federal agencies;
- For-profit entities;
- Units of state or local government;
- Colleges or universities; or
- Individual educational preschools, K-12 schools, or private K-12 institutions.
- Organizations that have had their IRS status revoked are not eligible to apply for a grant. Tax-exempt status must be current at the time of application.
For more information, visit US RAO.
