NEA Our Town Guidelines, FY2012 | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The NEA Our Town Guidelines, FY2012 grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number 2012NEAOT) is a discretionary grant program run by the National Endowment for the Arts (CFDA 45.024, Promotion of the Arts). It supports projects that use arts and design as practical tools for strengthening communities, with an emphasis on what the NEA calls "creative placemaking." In this context, creative placemaking means cross-sector partners working together to shape both the physical environment and the social life of a place (a neighborhood, town, tribe, city, or region) around arts and cultural activity. The program description highlights outcomes like more livable and sustainable neighborhoods, stronger local identity and sense of place, increased creative activity, revitalized streetscapes and structures, improved business viability and public safety, and efforts that bring diverse groups of people together through shared cultural experiences.

Projects funded through Our Town are expected to be rooted in collaboration rather than being driven by a single organization. Every application must be built around a partnership between two primary partners: one nonprofit organization and one local governmental entity. Importantly, at least one of these two primary partners must be a cultural organization, meaning an arts or design organization. Applicants can include additional partners from the public, private, nonprofit, and community sectors, but the program requires the two core partners to anchor the proposal. One of the two primary partners must serve as the lead applicant, which means that organization submits the application and takes full responsibility for meeting all grant requirements and administering the award if funded.

Eligibility depends on who is serving as the lead applicant. If the lead is not a local government, it must have at least a three-year history of programming prior to the application deadline. The lead applicant must also meet the NEA legal requirements, including nonprofit and tax-exempt status where applicable (as referenced in the NEA Grants for Arts Projects legal requirements), and it must be up to date on reporting, with acceptable final report packages submitted on time for any prior NEA awards. The broader list of eligible applicant types includes a wide range of public and nonprofit entities: city or township governments, county governments, special district governments, state governments, federally recognized tribal governments, independent school districts, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, and 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations (other than higher education institutions).

Award sizes under this opportunity range from a minimum (floor) of $25,000 to a maximum (ceiling) of $150,000, and the program requires cost sharing or matching, meaning applicants must commit non-federal resources alongside NEA funds. The grant timeline allows NEA-supported activities to begin on September 1, 2012, or any time after that date, and projects may run for as long as two years, giving communities time to plan, implement, and document multi-step placemaking work rather than squeezing efforts into a short window.

From an application and deadline standpoint, the opportunity was posted on December 1, 2011, and applications had to be submitted through Grants.gov. The system needed to receive a validated and accepted application no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on March 1, 2012. The archive date listed for the opportunity is March 31, 2012, reflecting the end of the active posting period for that fiscal year’s competition. For applicants needing the full announcement but facing access issues, the contact point provided is the NEA Web Manager, and the opportunity also references an NEA website link for additional information.

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