NEA Our Town CFDA 45.024

Grant Program Description
Art works to improve the lives of America's citizens in many ways. Communities across our nation are engaging design and leveraging the arts to create livable, sustainable neighborhoods with enhanced quality of life, increased creative activity, distinct identities, a sense of place, and vibrant local economies that capitalize on existing local assets. The NEA defines these efforts as creative placemaking:

"In creative placemaking, partners from public, private, nonprofit, and community sectors strategically shape the physical character of neighborhood, town, tribe, city, or region around arts and cultural activities. Creative placemaking animates public and private spaces, rejuvenates structures and streetscapes, improves local business viability and public safety, and brings diverse people together to celebrate, inspire, and be inspired."

Through Our Town, subject to the availability of funding, the National Endowment for the Arts will provide a limited number of grants ranging from $25,000 to $150,000, for creative placemaking projects that contribute toward the livability of communities and help transform them into lively, beautiful, and sustainable places with the arts at their core.  Applications are due March 1, 2012
 NEA Site Announcment

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: 2012NEAOT
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Posted Date: Dec 01, 2011
Creation Date: Dec. 01, 2011
Original Closing Date for Applications: Mar 1, 2012 The Grants.gov system must receive your validated and accepted application no later than 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on Mar 01, 2012.
Current Closing Date for Applications: Mar 1, 2012. The Grants.gov system must receive your validated and accepted application no later than 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on Mar o1, 2012.
Archive Date: Mar 31, 2012
Funding Instrument Type: Grant
Category of Funding Activity: Arts (see "Cultural Affairs" in CFDA)
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling: $150,000
Award Floor: $25,000
CFDA Number(s): 45.024 -- Promotion of the Arts_Grants to Organizations and Individuals
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: Yes

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