RESEARCH GRANTS IN THE ARTS

Sponsor: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Solicitation Title: RESEARCH GRANTS IN THE ARTS
Funding Amount: $10,000 to $100,000
Sponsor Deadline: Monday, March 30, 2020
Solicitation Link: https://www.arts.gov/grants-organizations/research-grants-in-the-arts

Overview

Research Grants in the Arts support research that investigates the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life. Research Grants in the Arts provides an opportunity to engage with the National Endowment for the Arts’ five-year agenda for 2017-2021. The research agenda offers guidance on the types of study questions and topics that to appeal to the agency’s long-term research goals. We are interested in research that identifies and examines: • Factors that enhance or inhibit arts participation or arts/cultural assets; • Detailed characteristics of arts participation or arts/cultural assets, and their interrelationships; • Individual-level outcomes of arts participation, specifically outcomes corresponding with the following domains: - social and emotional well-being - creativity, cognition, and learning - physiological processes of health and healing; and • Societal or community-level outcomes of arts/cultural assets, specifically outcomes corresponding with the following domains: - civic and corporate innovation - attraction for neighborhoods and businesses - national and/or state-level economic growth The National Endowment for the Arts is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and fostering mutual respect for the diverse beliefs and values of all individuals and groups.

Solicitation Limitations: All applicants must have a DUNS number (<a href="http://www.dnb.com">www.dnb.com</a>) and be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM, <a href="http://www.sam.gov">www.sam.gov</a>) and maintain an active SAM registration until the application process is complete, and should a grant be made, throughout the life of the award. An organization may submit more than one application under these Research Grants in the Arts guidelines. In each case, the request must be for a distinctly different project. However, an organization will not receive more than one Research Grants in the Arts award in any given cycle. You may apply to other National Endowment for the Arts funding opportunities, including NEA Research Labs, in addition to Research Grants in the Arts. In each case, the request must be for a distinctly different project. Our grants cannot exceed 50% of the total cost of the project. All grants require a nonfederal cost share/match of at least 1 to 1. Other Information:To allow time to resolve any problems you might encounter, we strongly recommend that you register/renew your Grants.gov/SAM registration by at least March 9, 2020 and submit to Grants.gov by at least March 20, 2020. Although not required, applicants are strongly encouraged to include project teams of arts practitioners and researchers/evaluators. Projects may include, but are not limited to: • Primary and/or secondary data analyses • Economic impact studies • Organizational research • Psychological and physical health-related or therapeutic studies that take place in clinical or non-clinical settings • Education studies in a variety of contexts (e.g., classrooms, informal venues, distance learning, or home-school environments) • Dosage studies • Third-party evaluations of an arts program's effectiveness and impact, such as applied evaluation studies/analyses that measure the impact or effectiveness of an organization’s arts program or project • Comparison studies of arts interventions • Statistically-driven meta-analyses of existing research that can yield a fresh understanding of the value and/or impact of the arts • Translational research that moves scientific evidence toward the development, testing, and standardization of new arts-related programs, practices, models, or tools that can be used easily by other practitioners and researchers Research methodologies may include analyses that use primary and/or secondary data, and quasi-experimental or experimental designs. Primary data collection projects must include: • Data analysis. We do not fund projects that focus exclusively on data acquisition. • Plans to ensure fidelity of the data collection and program/therapy implementation through routine monitoring and oversight.

Last Updated: 02/05/2020

RODA ID: 912