Sponsor:
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Summary:
Our Town supports creative placemaking projects that integrate arts, culture, and design into local efforts that strengthen communities over the long term. For Fiscal Year 2025, NEA is particularly interested in arts, culture, or design projects that address health/well-being, transportation/infrastructure, or climate-related challenges within a community. Competitive projects are responsive to unique local conditions, develop meaningful and substantive engagement in communities, advance artful lives, may disrupt “business as usual”, and lay the groundwork for long-term systems change.
The program requires applicants to demonstrate committed leadership from the local level and evidence of a diverse group of local stakeholders engaged in the proposed project. To be eligible for funding, applicants must demonstrate a required partnership between a nonprofit organization and a local governmental or quasi-governmental entity, and the arts, culture, or design experience necessary to carry out the project.
For more information, view the full NEA Our Town solicitation.
Award:
Grants range from $25,000 to $150,000 for up to two (2) years, with a minimum nonfederal cost share/match equal to the grant amount. Very few grants at or above the $100,000 level will be awarded; these will be only for projects of significant scale and impact.
Limited Submission Requirements and Timeline:
Two (2) applications per institution are permitted.
Only proposals approved by the Division of Research and Economic Development may be submitted to this program. For such approval, Principal Investigators (PIs) must first submit a Notice of Interest to limitedsubmissions@boisestate.edu by 4 pm on June 14, 2024.
**If necessary, a further white paper round may be required**
Key Submission Dates:
- June 14, 2024 – Notice of Interest due to limitedsubmissions@boisestate.edu.
- June 19, 2024 – Anticipated date applicants will be notified of approval to advance toward white paper round or full application submission.
- August 1, 2024 – Part 1 of proposal due to NEA through grants.gov.
- August 8, 2024 – Final proposal (in sponsored required format) due to OSP.
- August 15, 2024 – Part 2 of proposal due to NEA through NEA’s applicant portal.
Important Note on Sponsor Requirements:
- Cost Share is required for this program. Requests for Cost Share must be submitted for approval to your assigned Pre-Award Research Administrator at least 30 days prior to full proposal submission. Failure to do so will result in cost share not being approved
- Applicants must have completed a three-year history of programming prior to the application deadline.
NOTE: Please send all inquiries and submissions for Limited Submission opportunities to limitedsubmissions@boisestate.edu.