FUNDING-Limited Submission - National Endowment for the Arts – Our Town August 9, 2018

 

Purpose: Our Town is the National Endowment for the Arts’ creative placemaking grants program. These grants support projects that integrate arts, culture, and design activities into efforts that strengthen communities by advancing local economic, physical, and/or social outcomes. Successful Our Town projects ultimately lay the groundwork for systemic changes that sustain the integration of arts, culture, and design into strategies for strengthening communities. Projects should:

·  Bring new attention to or elevate key community assets and issues, voices of residents, local history, or cultural infrastructure.

·  Injectnew or additional energy, resources, activity, people, or enthusiasm into a place, community issue, or local economy.

·  Envision new possibilities for a community or place - a new future, a new way of overcoming a challenge, or approaching problem-solving.

·  Connect communities, people, places, and economic opportunity via physical spaces or new relationships.

The NEA plans to support a variety of projects across the country in urban, rural, and tribal communities of all sizes. Projects are divided into two program areas:

·         Place-Based Projects. Through arts engagement, cultural planning, design, and/or artist/creative industry support, these projects contribute to improved quality of life in local communities. These projects require a partnership between a nonprofit organization and a local government entity, with one of the partners being a cultural organization and should engage in partnership with other sectors (such as agriculture and food, economic development, education and youth, environment and energy, health, housing, public safety, transportation, and workforce development).Matching grants range from $25,000 to $200,000, with a minimum cost share/match equal to the grant amount.  

 

·         Knowledge Building Projects. These projects build and disseminate knowledge about how to leverage arts, culture, and design as mechanisms for strengthening communities. These grants are available to arts service or design service organizations, and/or other national or regional membership, policy, or university-based organizations. These projects require a partnership that will facilitate the knowledge sharing and/or exchange. Matching grants range from $25,000 to $100,000, with a minimum cost share/match equal to the grant amount.

 

Matching Requirements: All grants require a nonfederal match of at least 1 to 1.

 

Link to Funding Opportunity

 

Institutional Limit: 2

 

Internal Competition: To participate in the university’s selection process, please upload 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 June 12, 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: (NEA Our Town)
• Area of funding: Placed-Based Projects or Knowledge-Building Projects
• Brief project description - 2 pages maximum
• Budget, including the University’s match and potential source of funds

 

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

 

Agency Deadline: August 9, 2018