The Baltimore Heritage Area Association (DBA- The Baltimore National Heritage Area) administers the Neighborhood Placemaking Grant Program.
Donor Name: Baltimore National Heritage Area
State: Maryland
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/15/2023
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Launched in 2018, this grant program is a source of funding designed to provide small, but strategic investments in cultural heritage tourism (non-capital) projects within the heritage area.
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
Grant requests can be requested at $1,500 up to $5,000, with a $1 for $1 matching requirement. The match can be any amount of cash or in-kind services.
Grant Period
The project must be completed between February 1, 2024– February 1, 2025 (funds used prior to this date cannot be reimbursed).
Eligible Activities
- 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
To be eligible for a Neighborhood Placemaking Grant, applicant organizations must meet each of the following criteria:
- Be located within the boundary of the state heritage area (or the program/activity will happen within the boundary area).
- Be a nonprofit organization, tax-exempt community or neighborhood association in good standing with the State of Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation.
- Be qualified to do business in Maryland; AND
- Have the legal capacity and authority to incur obligations involved under the grant program.
- Eligible activities must address or complete a priority activity identified in and consistent with the goals, objectives, strategies, and actions outlined in the 2013 Baltimore National Heritage Area Comprehensive Management Plan.
Who may not apply?
The following types of organizations are not eligible to apply to the Neighborhood Placemaking Grant Program (this list is not meant to be exhaustive): Units of government; individuals; organizations that are the primary responsibility of a government agency; businesses; organizations that are not in good standing with BNHA and/or not in compliance with previous grants; and organizations not within the geographic heritage boundary.
For more information, visit BNHA.
