Learn About Our Recovery Programs
Introduction
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) provides $50 million to be distributed in direct grants to fund arts projects and activities which preserve jobs in the nonprofit arts sector threatened by declines in philanthropic and other support during the current economic downturn. Forty percent of such funds will be distributed to State arts agencies and regional arts organizations and 60 percent of the funds will be competitively awarded to nonprofit organizations that meet the eligibility criteria established for this program.
Applicants will be required to submit their applications electronically through Grants.gov, the federal government's online application system. All applicants must be registered with Grants.gov in order to submit their application. If you have already registered with Grants.gov, renew/verify your registration with Grants.gov and make sure that all of your information is current before you apply. Organizations that are not already registered should allow at least two weeks to complete this multi-step process. See the step-by-step instructions for registering at Get Registered.
Funding Program: Competitive Grants
One-time grants to eligible
nonprofit organizations including arts organizations, local arts agencies,
statewide assemblies of local arts agencies, arts service organizations,
units of state or local government, and a wide range of other organizations for projects that focus on the preservation of
jobs in the arts. All applicants must be previous NEA award recipients from the past four years. (Application deadline: April 2, 2009)
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In addition to direct grants from the NEA, organizations have three
other avenues from which to seek support through the ARRA.
Approximately 50 percent of the ARRA funds will be available through
subgrants awarded by:
- State arts agencies.
- Regional arts organizations of state arts agencies.
- Designated local arts agencies eligible to subgrant funds.
An organization that is not eligible to receive funds directly from the NEA has the potential to receive a stimulus grant from its state arts agency, regional arts organization, or a designated local arts agency. Please monitor the Web sites of your state arts agency and regional arts organization for guidelines and application information. See contact information on our web site.
A list of local arts agencies receiving ARRA funds for regranting is expected to be available on the Arts Endowment's Web site by mid-July
2009.
The following are the guidelines used by the state arts agencies and regional arts organizations to apply to the NEA for the ARRA funds they will be awarding to eligible nonprofit organizations in their state or region.
Funding Program: Grants to State and Regional Arts Organizations
One-time grants to the designated 50 state and six jurisdictional arts agencies (SAAs), their six authorized regional arts organizations (RAOs), and the national service organization for SAAs and RAOs for projects that focus on the preservation of jobs in the arts.See the list of these organizations on our site. (Deadline: March 13, 2009)
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