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class="hero__inner"> <div class="hero__content"> <h1 class="hero__title">Grants</h1> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="l-full__main"> <section class="l-section"> <div class="l-constrain l-constrain--xs"> <div class="l-section__content"> <h2>“The Arts . . . belong to all the people of the United States.”</h2><p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:Leelawadee, sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"> *1965 Enabling Legislation for the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965</span></p><p>Welcome!</p><p>The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is proud to support the nation’s arts sector with grant opportunities so that together we can help everyone live more artful lives.</p><p>“Artful lives” is an inclusive concept encompassing everything from the creation, presentation, and consumption of art, to active arts engagement by all people through making, teaching, and learning in our everyday lives. The arts contribute to our individual well-being, the well-being of our communities, and to our local economies. The arts are crucial to helping us make sense of our circumstances from different perspectives.</p><p>Arts and cultural activities are supported by a vast ecosystem that includes artists, arts workers, audiences, learners, communities, foundations, and organizations at the local, state-wide, regional, and national level. As a federal agency, the NEA holds a unique place within this ecosystem: we are the only arts funder in the United States—public or private—that provides access to the arts in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. jurisdictions.</p><p>In addition to providing critical grant funding, we are also a national resource in our roles as thought leader and convener of the arts sector, connector of artists and arts organizations with new opportunities, and amplifier of the important work you are doing.</p><p>Whether you are a first-time or returning applicant, we welcome the opportunity to connect with you. Our staff strives to ensure that all applicants receive the support they need to understand every step of the process. Here are some resources to help orient you to our grantmaking process:</p><ul type="disc"><li><a href="/grants/first-time-applicant-guide-for-organizations">First Time Applicant Guide for Organizations</a></li><li>How are applications reviewed? <a href="/grants/grant-review-process">Grant Review Process</a></li><li>Want to serve as an application reviewer? <a href="/form/volunteer-to-be-a-national-endowment-for-the-arts-panelist">Volunteer to be a Panelist</a></li><li>See the <a href="/grants/recent-grants">wide variety of projects and grant recipients we have funded</a></li></ul><p>Please carefully read the guidelines located below to better understand each program’s intent, as well as the types of projects we are particularly interested in funding as we aim to strengthen the nation’s arts and cultural ecosystem.</p><p><strong>NOTE</strong>: <a href="/grants/sam-validation%3Dreturning-to-grants.gov">SAM Validation Is Returning to Grants.gov</a></p><p>We know that applying for and managing a federal grant can be time-consuming and the process is competitive. Our grant programs are not the only way to access funding within the nation’s arts and culture ecosystem. In some cases, you may wish to consider applying to local, state, regional, or philanthropic funders if their resources are better aligned with your work.</p><p>Find out more about funding opportunities available through your <a href="/state-and-regional-arts-organizations">state arts agency and regional arts organization</a>.</p> </div> </div> </section> <section class="l-section"> <div class="l-constrain l-constrain--xs"> <div class="l-section__content"> <figure class="captioned-image align-center"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/grants-640.jpg?itok=grkTxxeh" width="640" height="298" alt="Actors in a wide array of colorful outfits dance onstage"> <figcaption class="captioned-image__caption"><p>Performance of <em>Twelfth Night</em> at Yale Repertory Theatre. Photo by Joan Marcus</p> </figcaption> </figure> </div> </div> </section> <section class="dynamic-content-grid"> <div class="l-constrain"> <h2 class="dynamic-content-grid__title">Grants for Organizations</h2> <div class="dynamic-content-grid__wrapper"> <a href="/grants/challenge-america" class="dynamic-content-item"> <div class="dynamic-content-item__media"> <img src="/themes/gesso/images/nea-placeholder.png" alt="NEA Placeholder Card"> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__title"> <span>CHALLENGE AMERICA</span> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__teaser"> Challenge America grants are awarded at $10,000 each to reach historically underserved communities with rich and dynamic cultural identities. This program may be a good entry point for organizations that are new to applying for federal funding. Grants are awarded in all artistic disciplines for a wide variety of arts projects.<br /> * Deadline has passed. New application guidelines anticipated in December 2024. </div> </a> <a href="/grants/grants-for-arts-projects" class="dynamic-content-item"> <div class="dynamic-content-item__media"> <img src="/themes/gesso/images/nea-placeholder.png" alt="NEA Placeholder Card"> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__title"> <span>GRANTS FOR ARTS PROJECTS</span> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__teaser"> Grants for Arts Projects provides expansive funding opportunities to strengthen the nation’s arts and culture ecosystem. Grants are available for arts projects in a wide variety of artistic disciplines. To leverage the greatest opportunities for federal support and to strengthen the ecosystem, each artistic discipline has identified the types of projects that are of greatest interest within this program as well as the characteristics of competitive applications. <br /> * Deadlines have passed. New application guidelines anticipated in December 2024. </div> </a> <a href="/grants/our-town" class="dynamic-content-item"> <div class="dynamic-content-item__media"> <img src="/themes/gesso/images/nea-placeholder.png" alt="NEA Placeholder Card"> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__title"> <span>OUR TOWN</span> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__teaser"> Our Town is our creative placemaking grants program, using arts, culture, and design to strengthen communities and advance local priorities such as health, community development, environment/climate, and public safety, among other community issues and aspirations. <br /> * Deadline has passed. New application guidelines anticipated in May 2025. </div> </a> <a href="/grants/partnership-agreement-grants" class="dynamic-content-item"> <div class="dynamic-content-item__media"> <img src="/themes/gesso/images/nea-placeholder.png" alt="NEA Placeholder Card"> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__title"> <span>PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT GRANTS</span> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__teaser"> Grants are awarded to the nation’s 56 state and jurisdictional arts agencies (SAAs), and the six regional arts organizations (RAOs) whose members comprise SAAs. Partnership support is also available to the national service organization for the state arts agencies.<br /> * Deadline : October 10, 2024. </div> </a> <a href="/grants/research-awards" class="dynamic-content-item"> <div class="dynamic-content-item__media"> <img src="/themes/gesso/images/nea-placeholder.png" alt="NEA Placeholder Card"> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__title"> <span>RESEARCH AWARDS</span> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__teaser"> The National Endowment for the Arts invites applicants to engage with its five-year research agenda (as part of the NEA FY2022-2026 Strategic Plan, Objective 3.2) through the agency’s Research Grants in the Arts program. <br /> * Deadline has passed. New application guidelines anticipated in January 2025. </div> </a> </div> </div> </section> <section class="dynamic-content-grid"> <div class="l-constrain"> <h2 class="dynamic-content-grid__title">Grants for Individuals</h2> <div class="dynamic-content-grid__wrapper"> <a href="/grants/creative-writing-fellowships" class="dynamic-content-item"> <div class="dynamic-content-item__media"> <img src="/themes/gesso/images/nea-placeholder.png" alt="NEA Placeholder Card"> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__title"> <span>CREATIVE WRITING FELLOWSHIPS</span> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__teaser"> The Literature Fellowships program awards grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Grants to individuals are only available in Literature. <br /> * Deadline has passed. New application guidelines anticipated in January 2025. </div> </a> <a href="/grants/translation-project-fellowships" class="dynamic-content-item"> <div class="dynamic-content-item__media"> <img src="/themes/gesso/images/nea-placeholder.png" alt="NEA Placeholder Card"> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__title"> <span>TRANSLATION PROJECT FELLOWSHIPS</span> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__teaser"> Through fellowships to published translators, the NEA supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English.<br /> * Deadline: January 16, 2025 </div> </a> </div> </div> </section> <section class="dynamic-content-grid"> <div class="l-constrain"> <h2 class="dynamic-content-grid__title">Additional Funding Opportunities</h2> <div class="dynamic-content-grid__wrapper"> <a href="/funding-opportunity-usartists-international" class="dynamic-content-item"> <div class="dynamic-content-item__media"> <img src="/themes/gesso/images/nea-placeholder.png" alt="NEA Placeholder Card"> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__title"> <span>Funding Opportunity: USArtists International</span> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__teaser"> The NEA seeks to award a grant to a U.S. Regional Arts Organization (RAO) to administer the 2025-2026 cycle of the USAI program. NEA funds will support the RAO’s program management expenses as well as subawards to participating arts organizations and individual artists.<br /> * Deadline: January 16, 2025 </div> </a> <a href="/funding-opportunity-performing-arts-global-exchange" class="dynamic-content-item"> <div class="dynamic-content-item__media"> <img src="/themes/gesso/images/nea-placeholder.png" alt="NEA Placeholder Card"> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__title"> <span>Funding Opportunity: Performing Arts Global Exchange</span> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__teaser"> The NEA seeks to award a grant to a U.S. Regional Arts Organization (RAO) to administer the 2025-2026 cycle of the PAGE program. NEA funds will support the RAO’s program management expenses as well as approximately 50 subawards to presenting organizations.<br /> * Deadline: January 23, 2025 </div> </a> <a href="/program-solicitation-arts-education-partnership" class="dynamic-content-item"> <div class="dynamic-content-item__media"> <img src="/themes/gesso/images/nea-placeholder.png" alt="NEA Placeholder Card"> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__title"> <span>Program Solicitation: Arts Education Partnership</span> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__teaser"> As the AEP enters its 30th year, the NEA seeks a Cooperator to build on the significant achievements of the AEP and its national coalition. <br /> * January 17, 2025 </div> </a> </div> </div> </section> <section class="dynamic-content-grid"> <div class="l-constrain"> <h2 class="dynamic-content-grid__title">Manage Your Award</h2> <div class="dynamic-content-grid__wrapper"> <a href="/grants/manage-your-award" class="dynamic-content-item"> <div class="dynamic-content-item__media"> <img src="/themes/gesso/images/nea-placeholder.png" alt="NEA Placeholder Card"> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__title"> <span>Manage Your Award</span> </div> <div class="dynamic-content-item__teaser"> Manage Your Award is for recipients of offers and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. 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