"The Arts . . . belong to all the people of the Us."

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is the just arts funder in the United States—public or private—that provides admission to the arts in all l states, the District of Columbia, and U.Due south. jurisdictions. Each twelvemonth, we award thousands of grants to provide everyone in the United States with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

We laurels cost/share matching grants to nonprofit organizations for a wide variety of arts projects, literature fellowships for published creative writers and translators, and partnership agreements with the 62 state/jurisdictional arts agencies and regional arts organizations.

Through our programs, nosotros encourage activities that rebuild the creative economy and educate the side by side generation; unite and heal the nation through the arts; and serve the nation's arts field. Nosotros are committed to diverseness, disinterestedness, inclusion, and accessibility, and fostering mutual respect for the diverse beliefs and values of all individuals and groups.

Whether you are a get-go-time or returning applicant, we welcome the opportunity to connect with you. We understand that applying for federal funding and managing a grant can be a significant undertaking. Our staff strives to ensure that all applicants receive the support they demand to understand every pace of the process. Contact us with your questions.

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Performance of Twelfth Night at Yale Repertory Theatre. Photograph by Joan Marcus

Grants for Organizations

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GRANTS FOR ARTS PROJECTS

Grants for Arts Projects grants support artistically splendid projects that celebrate our creativity and cultural heritage, invite mutual respect for differing behavior and values, and enrich humanity.
* Deadlines: February x and July 7, 2022

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Challenge AMERICA

Support for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations. Challenge America features an abbreviated application, a robust construction of technical assistance, and grants for a set corporeality of $10,000.
* Deadline: April 21, 2022

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OUR Town

Our Town is the National Endowment for the Arts' artistic placemaking grants programme. Through project-based funding, we support projects that integrate arts, culture, and pattern activities into efforts that strengthen communities by advancing local economic, physical, and/or social outcomes.
* Deadline has passed. New guidelines available past May 2022.

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RESEARCH AWARDS

The National Endowment for the Arts provides ii funding opportunities for research projects: Enquiry Grants in the Arts funds research that investigates the value and/or impact of the arts, and NEA Enquiry Labs, which funds transdisciplinary research teams grounded in the social and behavioral sciences.
* Borderline has passed

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AMERICAN RESCUE Programme GRANTS

The Arts Endowment volition competitively accolade Rescue Plan funds to eligible organizations nationwide. These funds are intended to help back up jobs in the arts sector, keep the doors open to arts organizations nationwide, and assistance the field in its response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
* Deadlines have passed.

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PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS

Grants are awarded to the nation's 56 state and jurisdictional arts agencies (SAAs), and the half-dozen regional arts organizations (RAOs) whose members comprise SAAs. Partnership back up is also bachelor to the national service arrangement for the land arts agencies.
* Deadline: September 29, 2022

Grants for Individuals

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Creative WRITING FELLOWSHIPS

The National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships programme offers $25,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable the recipients to ready bated time for writing, research, travel, and full general career advancement.
* Deadline has passed

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TRANSLATION PROJECTS

Through fellowships to published translators, the National Endowment for the Arts supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poesy, or drama from other languages into English.
* Deadline has passed

Manage Your Accolade

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Manage Your Honor

Rules, regulations, policies and procedures to manage and administrate a grant or cooperative agreement (laurels), including forms, guidance, and reporting requirements that govern your award.

Contempo Grants

Information nigh NEA grants awarded since 1998.

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