The ECA Cultural Programs Division provides grants to U.S. nonprofit organizations to carry out exchange programs in the arts, arts management, and arts education. The purpose of each exchange program is to provide engagement with youth, particularly those with limited opportunities, to promote American heritage in the arts, to demonstrate respect for foreign cultures, and to promote mutual understanding between the people of United States and other countries.
Exchange programs supported by these grants focus on the development and advancement of artistic and leadership skills of youth and youth influencers, and underscore the importance of empowerment, free expression and other democratic principles to the process of creating and presenting works of art. These projects serve youth and communities by promoting the arts as a mechanism for encouraging social change and increasing awareness of challenging social issues, including, but not limited to, conflict resolution, democratic understanding, individual success in the economic world, and HIV and AIDS prevention. Additionally, the projects supported through our grant program focus on increasing the ability of performing and visual arts organizations to be responsive to their local communities, especially to underserved youth, through innovative arts and arts education programming and institutional capacity building.
Each year, proposals are accepted for projects in the following artistic disciplines: Film, Video and Digital Media; Performing Arts including Dance, Music, Traditional Arts and Theater, and all Visual Arts media. Each project must use one of these artistic disciplines as a vehicle for U.S. and overseas participants to exchange best practices and innovative ideas and to reach and engage underserved young audiences in one or more eligible countries.
For more information about ECA grant opportunities, click here http://exchanges.state.gov/education/rfgps/
|
