(FOA)-Limited Submission – National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) – The Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design™ (CIRD) (NEAPS1803); July 17, 2018

 

Purpose: The mission of this National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design program is to select an organization (Cooperator) to plan and administer the Citizens' Institute on Rural Design™ (CIRD). The CIRD was created in 1991 with the goal of enhancing the quality of life and economic viability of rural America through planning, design, and creative placemaking. In the past, the program has hosted annually up to four, multi-day workshops in communities across the nation with populations of 50,000 or less to develop locally driven solutions for improving the ways a community looks, its quality of life, and its economic viability. These workshops have addressed specific planning and design issues including downtown revitalization, economic development, arts-based development strategies, creative business incubation, multimodal transportation, housing, and healthy living by design. For this announcement, the NEA has four overall areas of special interest:

1. Building capacity in rural communities to plan comprehensive revitalization strategies;
2. Introducing creative placemaking, arts, culture, and design strategies as drivers of economic development in rural America;
3. Facilitating a network of rural communities for idea exchanges and peer learning; and
4. Preparing communities to be ready and competitive for state and federal funding opportunities.

 

Matching Requirement: This Cooperative Agreement requires a nonfederal cost share of at least 50% of the Cooperative Agreement amount. Matching funds cannot include funds from any NEA or other federal sources.

 

Funding Amount/ Project Period: up to $350,000 for up to 24 months

 

Link to Funding Opportunity Announcement

 

Institutional Limit:  1

 

Internal Competition: To participate in the university’s selection process,please submit the following,assembled into a single PDF file, to the Office of the Vice President for Research via this portal with a copy to your Associate Dean for Research by July 17, 2018:

• Names and departments or affiliations of the Project Director and other key personnel or partners;
• Title of program and/or funding opportunity announcement number (Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design)
• Brief project description (2 pages maximum)
• Budget, including the potential source of matching funds

 

A committee will be convened to review the material and make a recommendation.

 

For questions or issues with submission through the portal, email the limited submission mailbox (limitedsubmissions@uky.edu), or call 257-2861.

 

Agency Deadline:  August 8, 2018