Cultural Heritage Tourism
Funding Opportunities
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Deadline: Open
Deadline: April 11, 2022
Deadline: April 12, 2022
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Deadline: September 30, 2022
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Deadline: Open
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program provides loans and grants to Microenterprise Development Organizations (MDOs) to:
- Provide microloans for microenterprise startups and growth through a Rural Microloan Revolving Fund.
- Provide training and technical assistance to microloan borrowers and micro-entrepreneurs.
Tourism Tip: This grant can help fund new tourism businesses in rural communities.
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Deadline: April 11, 2022
USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service will establish cooperative agreements with state and tribal governments to support local, regional, and socially disadvantaged farmers/producers through food purchasing under the “Build Back Better Initiative.” State and Tribal governments will purchase food from local and regional farmers/producers, targeting socially disadvantaged farmers/producers. These cooperative agreements will allow for entities to procure local, domestic foods that are unique to their geographic area and meet the needs of the populations. In addition to increasing local food consumption, funds are expected to help build and expand economic opportunity for local and socially disadvantaged farmers/producers.
Tourism Tip: This program can be used to help distribute healthy local and regional foods unique to their geographic area.
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Deadline: April 12, 2022
The CDFI Fund created the Native Initiatives to support the creation and expansion of Native CDFIs. Native CDFIs help Native Communities thrive and grow by increasing their access to credit, capital, and financial services. Through the use of monetary awards and training opportunities, the CDFI Fund’s Native Initiatives program creates jobs, builds businesses and fosters economic self-determination in Native communities nationwide. The Native Initiatives program has:
- Awarded more than $120 million in financial and technical assistance to CDFIs
- Provided more than 1,600 hours of training to Native CDFIs through recent trainings
Tourism Tip: This initiative can help create tourism jobs in Native communities.
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Deadline: April 14, 2022
USDA Rural Development invests in rural transportation, through the Rural Business Development Grant, to build opportunity for prosperity for organizations seeking to improve passenger services and facilities.
Tourism Tip: This grant can help enhance the operation of rural transportation systems.
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Deadline: April 15, 2022
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration for Native Americans (ANA) announces the availability of Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 funds for the Social and Economic Development Strategies (SEDS) program.
This program is focused on community-driven projects designed to grow local economies, strengthen Native American families, including the preservation of Native American cultures, and decrease the high rate of current challenges caused by the lack of community-based businesses, and social and economic infrastructure in Native American communities.
Tourism Tip: This grant can help support the development of new hospitality facilities and infrastructure
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Deadline: April 15, 2022
This program is focused on community-driven projects Village-specific projects designed to grow local economies, strengthen Native American families, including the preservation of Native American cultures, and decrease the high rate of current challenges caused by the lack of community-based businesses, and social and economic infrastructure in Native American communities.
Tourism Tip: This grant can help support the development of new hospitality facilities and infrastructure in Alaska Native villages.
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Deadline: April 18, 2022
The Tribal Seafood Processors Pandemic Response and Safety (TSPRS) Grant Program provides grants to seafood processors, including at-sea processors and dealers, owned and operated by federally recognized Indian Tribes. The grant program provides funds to respond to coronavirus.
Tourism Tip: This grant can help recover Indigenous tourism businesses negatively impacted by COVID-19.
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Deadline: April 19, 2022
THRIVE! provides unrestricted funds for those who have all too often been outside the grantmaking sector’s funding opportunities to include Black theaters, Indigenous theaters, and Theaters of Color (BITOC) based in the United States (including Tribal Nations and U.S. Territories) which are closely connected to and positively impact their chosen communities. THRIVE! aims to ease some of the pressures that BITOC face in fundraising by investing in their staff and artists and helping their organizational success beyond the scope of artistic projects and programming.
Tourism Tip: This grant can help fund time-sensitive challenges that prevent ongoing work within communities.
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Deadline: April 19, 2022
This program provides funding to help non-profit housing and community development organizations support housing, community facilities and community and economic development projects in rural areas.
Tourism Tip: This grant can help develop a tourism initiative for economic development in rural areas.
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Deadline: April 19, 2022
The Rural Innovation Stronger Economy (RISE) grant program encourages a regional, innovation-driven approach to economic development by funding job accelerator partnerships in low-income rural communities. This includes communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality.
RISE provides grants of up to $2 million to consortiums of local governments, investors, industry, institutions of higher education, and other public and private entities in rural areas. The funding may be used to support innovation centers and job accelerator programs that improve the ability of distressed rural communities to create high-wage jobs, form new businesses, and identify and maximize local assets.
USDA encourages applications that serve the smallest communities with the lowest incomes.
Tourism Tip: This grant can help strengthen rural communities through tourism.
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Deadline: April 20, 2022
First Nations recognizes Native communities’ ability to steward their land to ensure their sustainable, economic, spiritual and cultural well-being. In response, First Nations created its Stewarding Native Lands program to provide financial and technical assistance to support Native ecological stewardship and improve Native control of and access to ancestral lands and resources.
Tourism Tip: This program is for Native communities that are in the early stages of developing and/or expanding programs public lands programs.
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Deadline: April 21, 2022
Challenge America offers support primarily to small organizations for projects in all artistic disciplines that extend the reach of the arts to populations that are underserved. 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.
Tourism Tip: This grant can help fund any arts program that extends to reach underserved populations.
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Deadline: April 25, 2022
The objective of this grant program is to assist viable Independent Producers, Agricultural Producer Groups, Farmer and Rancher Cooperatives, and Majority-Controlled Producer-Based Businesses in starting or expanding value-added activities related to the processing and/or marketing of Value-Added Agricultural Products. Grants will be awarded competitively for either planning or working capital projects directly related to the processing and/or marketing of value-added products.
Tourism Tip: This program can be used to generate new value-added products including those of interest to rural area visitors.
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Deadline: April 26, 2022
The Acer Access and Development Program (Acer) offers grants to support the efforts of States, tribal governments and research institutions to promote the domestic maple syrup industry. Supported activities include promotion of research and education related to maple syrup production; promotion of natural resource sustainability in the maple syrup industry; market promotion for maple syrup and maple-sap products; encouragement of owners and operators of privately held land containing species of trees in the genus Acer to initiate or expand maple-sugaring activities on the land; or to voluntarily make the land available, including by lease or other means, for access by the public for maple-sugaring activities.
Tourism Tip: This program can help expand visitor-oriented maple sugaring activities on Native lands.
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Deadline: May 3, 2022
The Semiquincentennial Grant Program is a new program created by Congress in 2019 to honor the 250th anniversary of the officially recognized founding of the United States by restoring and preserving State-owned sites and structures listed on the National Register of Historic Places that commemorate the founding of the nation.
For the purposes of this grant program, the "founding of the nation" is defined as the period ending December 31, 1800. This end date corresponds to the election of 1800, as the peaceful transfer of power following the contested election between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson represents a hallmark of democracy and a pivotal moment in American history. The founding of the nation does not have a defined starting period.
Historic resources supported by this program may include those associated with the political ideas, well-known individuals, pivotal events or sites of conflict typically thought of in conjunction with this period of American history. However, archeological sites, cultural landscapes and built resources can all successfully illustrate concepts of "nationhood" and "America" regardless of where they are located. Such resources may reflect what people thought and did and lived, and thus illustrate the lifeways, folkways, foodways, people, places, events and conditions of culture and society during the formation of the country.
Tourism Tip: This grant can help support Native destinations that chronicle "the founding of the nation," which does not have a defined starting period.
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For more information, visit NPS.gov
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Deadline: May 6, 2022
In 2022 SNC is administering the Vibrant Recreation and Tourism Directed Grant Program, to support planning and implementation efforts to enhance and develop sustainable recreation and tourism opportunities and increase access to public lands in the Sierra Nevada Region.
Tourism Tip: This grant can be used to develop access to nature and outdoor recreation.
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Deadline: May 13, 2022
Through an annual competition, the International Trade Administration (ITA) selects a limited number of U.S. non-profit organizations to receive Market Development Cooperator Program (MDCP) awards. A recipient gets up to $300,000, matched two-to-one by its own resources, to pursue a 3-5-year project designed to remove trade barriers and help U.S. firms to export.
Tourism Tip: This grant can be used to help create tourism programs that attract international visitors.
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Deadline: May 16, 2022
This grant opportunity will result in the distribution of up to $22 million. The 2022 NSBP grants, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) seeks projects that meet the statutory eligibility and advance one or more of the four goals: (1) Safety; (2) Equity and Accessibility; (3) Economic Strength; and (4) Climate and Sustainability.
Tourism Tip: This program will fund projects that enhance designated scenic byways.
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Deadline: June 1, 2022
USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) will provide, at a minimum, a $25 million investment of American Rescue Plan funds, with awards normally ranging from $500,000 to $3.5 million for a five-year cooperative agreement. There is no anticipated overall maximum funding level. Applications are encouraged from partnerships and collaborations that are led by domestic nonprofit organizations and accredited public and nonprofit institutions of higher education with specialized expertise and a proven track record in working with underserved agricultural producers and/or the specific content for technical assistance.
Tourism Tip: This grant can help grow underserved agricultural businesses by providing technical assistance.
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Deadline: June 17, 2022
Funds awarded through the program establish and operate business incubators that assist entrepreneurs by providing guidance and services like workspace, advice on how to access capital, business education, counseling, and mentorship opportunities to navigate obstacles in transforming their innovative ideas into operational businesses.
Tourism Tip: This program can provide tools to help grow Native businesses that attract visitors.
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For more information, visit bia.gov.
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Deadline: July 7, 2022
NEA's Grants for Arts Projects is the principal grants program for organizations based in the United States. Through project-based funding, the program supports public engagement with, and access to, various forms of art across the nation, the creation of art, learning in the arts at all stages of life, and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life. Arts projects in the following disciplines are funded: Artist Communities, Arts Education, Dance, Design, Folk & Traditional Arts, Literary Arts, Local Arts Agencies, Media Arts, Museums, Music, Musical Theater, Opera, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Arts, Theater, and Visual Arts.
Tourism Tip: This grant can help fund any public-and visitor-facing arts program.
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Deadline: August 1, 2022
The Access Fund’s Climbing Conservation Grant Program funds projects that preserve or enhance climbing access and opportunities and conserve the climbing environment throughout the US. Since our inception in 1991, Access Fund has funded more than $1.3 million to local organizations, climbers and public agencies.
Tourism Tip: This grant can help preserve or enhance climbing environments.
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Deadline: August 1, 2022
The Foundation trustees have historically approved grants in those areas where family members reside. At the same time, 90%+ of the grants approved in recent years have been trustee endorsed, some of which are in areas that may be located outside of family residential areas. Family members live throughout the US, but there are larger concentrations between New York and New Hampshire, in addition to Colorado.
It is strongly recommended that you contact the Foundation’s office to discuss proposed programs before you start the application process. The Kettering Family Foundation (KFF) will consider activities in the following categories:
- Arts, Culture and Humanities
- Education
- Environment
- Health/Medical
- Human Services
- Public/Society Benefit
Tourism Tip: Use this grant to fund an arts and culture family-friendly tourism business.
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Deadline: September 30, 2022 (applications reviewed on rolling basis.)
Through the Indigenous Communities program, EDA is allocating $100 million in American Rescue Plan funding specifically for Indigenous communities, which were disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.
This program is designed to support the needs of tribal governments and Indigenous communities. EDA will support these important partners to develop and execute economic development projects that they need to recover from the pandemic and build economies for the future.
A wide range of technical, planning, workforce development, entrepreneurship, and public works and infrastructure projects are eligible for funding under this program.
Tourism Tip: This grant can help recover Indigenous tourism businesses negatively impacted by COVID-19.
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