NEA GRANTS: National Endowment for Arts Challenge America Grants 2024. Nea Challenge America Grants 2024
Challenge America offers support primarily to small organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved groups/communities. Challenge America features an abbreviated application, a robust structure of technical assistance, and grants for a set amount of $10,000. Grants require a cost share/match of $10,000 consisting of cash and/or in-kind contributions. Total project costs must be at least $20,000 or greater.
CHALLENGE AMERICA: Program Description
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.
“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 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.
Grant Amounts, Cost Share, and Matching Funds
All grants are for $10,000.
All grants require a nonfederal cost share/match of at least 1 to 1. For example, if an organization receives a $10,000 grant, the total eligible project costs must be at least $20,000 and the organization must provide at least $10,000 toward the project from nonfederal sources.
CHALLENGE AMERICA: Eligibility
If an organization applies to the Challenge America category, it may not also apply to the Grants for Arts Projects category during the same calendar year. If your organization submitted an application to the February 2024 Grants for Arts Projects or will submit an application to the July 2024 Grants for Arts Projects, you may not also apply to the April 2024 Challenge America.
The following are eligible to apply:
- Non-profit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3), U.S. organizations;
- Units of state or local government; or
- Federally recognized tribal communities or tribes.
Applicants fitting the above eligibility requirements may be arts organizations, local arts agencies, arts service organizations, local education agencies (school districts), or other organizations that can help advance the goals of the NEA.
To be eligible, the applicant organization must:
- Be a first-time applicant to the NEA, or
- Be a previous NEA applicant that was not recommended for funding in any of the three most recent Fiscal Years (FYs 2022, 2023, or 2024) in any of the following grant programs:
- Grants for Arts Projects (application deadlines in February and July 2021, 2022, and 2023);
- Research Grants in the Arts (application deadlines in October 2021, April 2022, and April 2023); or
- Our Town (application deadlines in August 2021, 2022, and 2023).
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