OUR TOWN: Arts Engagement, Cultural Planning, and Design Projects - Grant Program Description
Solicitation Title: OUR TOWN: Arts Engagement, Cultural Planning, and Design Projects - Grant Program Description
Funding Amount: Matching grants: Arts Engagement, Cultural Planning, and Design Projects - $25,000 - $200,000; Projects that Build Knowledge About Creative Placemaking - $25,000 - $100,000.
Sponsor Deadline: Monday, September 18, 2017
Solicitation Link: https://www.arts.gov/grants-organizations/our-town/introduction
Overview
<p>This area of Our Town funding is to build and disseminate creative placemaking knowledge more broadly across professional networks.<br>These projects should expand the capacity of artists and arts organizations to be more effective at executing creative placemaking projects, and to work more effectively with economic and community development practitioners, and vice versa, to improve the livability of the communities and create opportunities for all. <br>These projects should expand the knowledge base about creative placemaking to their members and the field, and must reflect the following:<br>• Involvement of the organization's membership, audience, or constituency, as appropriate.<br>• Systemic approach to building knowledge about creative placemaking for the organization and broader field of community development.<br>• Clearly defined systems that provide for the management of new ideas, documentation, the potential for learning, and sharing of technical assistance programming.<br>• Clearly defined audience for technical assistance, and delivery of technical assistance. (Funding will not support only the creation of technical assistance knowledge. The knowledge must also be delivered).<br>• The appropriate arts and/or place-based experts to provide the services included in the project.<br>• Artistic excellence of the arts organizations, or artists involved with the project.</p>
Solicitation Limitations: <p>Our grants cannot exceed 50% of the total cost of the project. Applications must identify a partnership with either an organization or consultant, and one of the two partners must have creative placemaking expertise. For example, an art-based membership organization must have an economic or community development knowledge consultant/organization/partner identified at the time of application, or an economic or community development membership organization must have an arts-based knowledge consultant/organization/partner.</p> Other Information:<p>Costs incurred before the earliest project start date of August 1, 2018, can't be included in your budget or match. You must request a grant amount at one of the following levels: $25,000, $50,000, $75,000, $100,000, $150,000, or $200,000. We will award very few grants at the $200,000 level; these will be only for projects of significant scale and impact.</p>Last Updated:
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