Opportunity Information: Apply for 2023NEA01OT
NEA Our Town (FY2024) is the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) creative placemaking grant program designed to fund project-based work that intentionally weaves arts, culture, and design into broader community-strengthening efforts. The main idea is that art is not treated as an add-on or a standalone event, but as a core tool within strategies like neighborhood revitalization, public space improvements, cultural district planning, community health and well-being initiatives, transportation and streetscape redesign, housing and economic development efforts, and other long-range local priorities. Competitive projects make a clear case for how arts, culture, and design help solve local challenges, build opportunity, and create lasting benefits, with a strong emphasis on equity and on setting the conditions for long-term systems change that reflects local needs and assets.
A key requirement of Our Town is partnership. Every application is submitted by a single lead applicant, but it must be built and carried out with one formal partner organization. Together, the applicant and partner must include (1) a nonprofit organization and (2) a local government or quasi-government entity. In practice, this structure is meant to ensure that creative placemaking projects are both community-rooted and connected to the institutions that shape public policy, planning, and public investment. Eligible applicants listed for this opportunity include various government entities (state, county, city/township, special districts, independent school districts, and federally recognized tribal governments), as well as nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (excluding higher education institutions under that nonprofit category) and institutions of higher education (public/state-controlled and private). The program is cataloged under CFDA/Assistance Listing 45.024, and it is offered by the National Endowment for the Arts as a discretionary grant.
Funding is provided as a cost share/matching grant, with award amounts ranging from $25,000 up to $150,000 (the maximum award ceiling). The match requirement is at least one-to-one, meaning the applicant must commit non-federal cost share/matching funds that are at minimum equal to the amount requested from the NEA. This structure effectively requires applicants to demonstrate local buy-in and the ability to assemble a realistic funding plan, whether through cash contributions, eligible in-kind support, or a combination (as permitted under federal grant rules and the program’s specific guidelines). The project timeline is flexible: NEA-supported activities may begin on July 1, 2024, or any time after that date, and applicants may propose a grant period of up to two years, allowing enough time for planning, community engagement, implementation, and early evaluation of results.
This opportunity also allows applicants to pursue other NEA funding programs at the same time, including Grants for Arts Projects, as long as each application is for a distinctly different project or a clearly different phase of the same overall initiative. That distinction matters because the NEA is signaling that Our Town is specifically focused on arts-led community development outcomes, not just arts programming, and it expects budgets, work plans, and objectives to be clearly separated when multiple NEA requests are involved.
Administrative details from the listing include the funding opportunity title NEA Our Town, FY2024, funding opportunity number 2023NEA01OT, and an original closing date of August 3, 2023. The funding instrument type is a grant, the activity category is arts, and the program is positioned to support communities that are ready to use arts, culture, and design as practical, measurable components of long-term civic and community change.Apply for 2023NEA01OT
- The National Endowment for the Arts in the arts sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "NEA Our Town, FY2024" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.024.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2023-05-08.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2023-08-03. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $150,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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