Arts & Culture Commission Meeting Date: June 10th, 2024
To: Arts & Culture Commission Members
From: Natalie Draper, Library Director
Title
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Our Town Grant Application
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Action Requested:
Discuss the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Our Town Grant Application.
Summary Report:
The Arts and Culture Commission would be seeking matching funds to support the commission of a Placemaking Plan focused on downtown areas, the Riverwalk, and riverfront and adjacent parks and public spaces.
Our Town is the NEA's creative placemaking grants program. Through project-based funding, the program supports activities that integrate arts, culture, and design into local efforts that strengthen communities over the long term. Our Town projects engage a wide range of local stakeholders in efforts to advance local economic, physical, and/or social outcomes in communities. Competitive projects are responsive to unique local conditions, develop meaningful and substantive engagement in communities, center equity, advance artful lives, and lay the groundwork for long-term systems change
Alternative Options:
Financial Impacts:
Eligible organizations may request up to $150,000 dollars, with a minimum request of $25,000.
Eligibility
Organizations eligible to apply include:
* Nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3), U.S. organizations;
* Nonprofit institutions of higher education;
* Units of local government; or
* Federally recognized tribal communities or tribes.
Applicant organizations must have completed at least 3 years of arts programming prior to the application deadline.
All applications are submitted by one organization and require at least one partner organization. The applicant/partner pair must include 1) a nonprofit organization and 2) a local governmental or quasi-governmental entity. If neither of the partners is an arts, design, or cultural entity, then an additional arts, design, or cultural partner is also required.
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