Applications are open for Phase Two of the Performing Arts Discovery (PAD) program — an international video showcase opportunity for US-based performing artists. The program promotes US artists, international programmers, festival directors and venue managers — is managed by WAA on behalf of our US Regional Arts Organization partners.

Ten applicants were selected under Phase One of the program earlier this year. For Phase Two, an additional 20 applicants will be selected, and all 30 PAD artists/ensembles will work remotely with the PAD showcase production team beginning March 2022 to develop professionally produced live performance videos to be featured on a dedicated platform and included in selected international online showcases later in 2022.

PAD encourages those who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and/or LGBTQ+ to apply.

Tourism Tip: This funding opportunity can help local artists, dance groups and cultural performers tour other countries and promote your hometown attractions.

For more information, visit westarts.org.

National Park Service’s Underrepresented Community Grant Program (URC) works towards diversifying the nominations submitted to the National Register of Historic Places. URC grants are funded by the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF), and are administered by the NPS. Projects include surveys and inventories of historic properties associated with communities underrepresented in the National Register, as well as the development of nominations to the National Register for specific sites.

Tourism Tip: This grant can help fund a tourism initiative in your underrepresented community.

For more information, visit nps.gov.

The National Forest Foundation (NFF) Matching Awards Program (MAP) provides funding for results-oriented on-the-ground projects that enhance forest health and outdoor experiences on National Forests and Grasslands.

Tourism Tip: The grant can help fund outdoor tourism experiences.

For more information, visit nationalforests.org.

Comcast RISE was created to invest in the success of small businesses owned by people of color by providing valuable and critical support.

Tourism Tip: The grant can help fund your small tourism business.

For more information, visit comcastrise.com.

Subject to the availability of funds, awards made under this notice of funding opportunity will help communities and regions devise and implement sustainable economic recovery strategies through a variety of non-construction and construction projects to respond to damage to the travel, tourism and outdoor recreation sectors from the coronavirus pandemic and to promote the economic resilience of regions dependent on those industries.

Tourism Tip: This grant can be used to help recover your tourism business.

For more information, visit grants.gov.

The ReConnect Program offers loans, grants and loan-grant combinations to facilitate broadband deployment in areas of rural America that currently do not have sufficient access to broadband. In facilitating the expansion of broadband services and infrastructure, the program will fuel long-term rural economic development and opportunities in rural America.

Applications are now being accepted for FY2022.

Tourism Tip: This grant can help reconnect broadband services in rural areas which would include use by visitors.

For more information, visit usda.gov.

The NEA supports design projects that have a public benefit and advance the field of design. In addition, they invite projects that respond to current events. Funding can support various design disciplines including architecture, communications and graphic design, fashion design, historic preservation, industrial and product design, interior design, landscape architecture, inclusive design, rural design, social impact design and urban design.

NEA is accepting proposals for a number of disciplines, including Folk & Traditional Arts/Museums/Artist Communities (residencies)/Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works (presenting, performing, touring, residencies).

Tourism Tip: This grant can be used for a variety of different design projects in your community.

For more information, visit arts.gov.

National Park Service’s Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grants Program supports subgrant programs that enable the rehabilitation of historic properties and rehabilitate, protect and foster economic development of rural communities. This program funds preservation projects for historic sites, including architectural and engineering services and physical building preservation through subgrants to communities determined rural by the US Bureau of the Census. The Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grants Program is funded by the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) and is administered by the NPS.

Tourism Tip: This grant can help preserve historic properties in your tourism initiative.

For more information, visit nps.gov.

This program is designed to assist Native American tribes in improving core library services for their communities. Reflecting IMLS’s agency-level goals of championing lifelong learning, strengthening community engagement, and advancing collections stewardship and access, the goals for this program are to:

Tourism Tip: This grant can help your library become a part of your tourism attractions, helping visitors find attractions and services while providing a place to stop, read or take advantage of programs, especially those for children.

For more information, visit imls.gov.

Rural Business Development Grant money must be used for projects that benefit rural areas or towns outside the urbanized periphery of any city with a population of 50,000 or more.

Tourism Tip: This grant can help support community economic development, feasibility studies, strategic planning and training.

For more information, visit www.rd.usda.gov

Bureau of Indian Affairs: Funding for Living Languages Grants

The Office of Indian Economic Development (OIED), through its Living

Languages Grant Program (LLGP), is soliciting proposals from federally recognized Tribes and Tribal organizations for grants to fund Native language instruction and immersion programs for Native students not enrolled at Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) schools, including those Tribes in States without BIE-funded schools.

Tourism Tip: This grant can be used to help revitalize languages in danger of extinction and provide use of languages for signage, promotional materials and training to frontline tourism staff (greetings, thank you, your welcome and other everyday phrases they can use with visitors).

For more information, contact Dennis Wilson at dennis.wilson@bia.gov or visit, bia.gov.

Through the Travel, Tourism & Outdoor Recreation program, EDA is focused on accelerating the recovery of communities that rely on the travel, tourism and outdoor recreation sectors.

Destination organizations, nonprofits, state or local governments, economic development districts (EDDs), territories and tribal governments and institutions of higher education can apply for these funds. $240 million has been set aside for the Competitive Tourism Grants. Funds competitively awarded to local governments and nonprofit organizations in regions most impacted by job loss in the travel, tourism and outdoor recreation sectors—for projects that promote economic resilience and development and align with an EDA Investment Priority.

Tourism Tip: This grant can help to recover your tourism economy.

For More Information

For more information, visit www.epa.gov or Email your questions about the American Rescue Plan Indigenous Communities program to Indigenous@eda.gov or visit www.eda.gov/contact to find contact information for your Economic Development Representative.

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.

Tourism Tip: This grant can help revive your community from the impact of COVID-19.

For more information, visit www.eda.gov or email your questions to indigenous@eda.gov.

The USArtists International program (USAI) supports performances by U.S. artists at impactful

international festivals and performing arts marketplaces outside the United States and its territories. The program supports the engagements of exemplary solo artists and ensembles across all performing arts disciplines including dance, music, theater, multidisciplinary work, and folk/traditional arts.

Tourism Tip: This grant can help fund performing arts where artists can act as ambassadors to other countries and encourage visitation.

For more information, visit midatlanticarts.org, or contact the program officer at robyn@midatlanticarts.org.

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 your low income economy through tourism.

For more information, visit rd.usda.gov.

The Potlatch Fund aims to build on the Native tradition of giving by increasing philanthropy for and among Tribal communities through grants and empowering community leaders with the tools they need to succeed through training. To that end, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on Native communities, the Potlatch Resiliency Fund will support resiliency actions that create hope, social connection, adaption, flexibility and purpose. Grants of $10,000 and $15,000 will be awarded in support of general operating funds, projects and artists.

Tourism Tip: This grant can help support training to increase philanthropy initiatives in your community.

For more information, visit www.potlatchfund.org

The UC Davis Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program is a statewide program of University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources. UC SAREP envisions a food and farming system that supports resilience through diversified production, marketing, and distribution systems; values all food system workers and supports their physical, economic, and social well-being; contributes to the health and vitality of urban, rural, and Tribal communities; is environmentally regenerative, using resources for production and distribution in a way that protects the environment in trust for future generations, including under changing climate conditions; and is culturally responsive and reflects the ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity of California.

SAREP invites proposals for small grants to fund pilot projects and research projects that support California’s farmers, ranchers, and land stewards and/or rural, urban, and Tribal communities to plan, implement, or evaluate sustainable agriculture or food systems strategies. UC SAREP will fund projects that fall within two priority areas:

Support California’s farmers, ranchers, and land stewards of all scales in identifying, piloting, and transitioning to environmentally regenerative approaches to producing crops and livestock (including but not limited to soil health, organic and agroecological practices, integrated pest management, and crop diversification); pathways for realizing economic return from ecologically sound crop management practices and fair labor practices; marketing and distribution strategies that support diversified, decentralized, and locally self-organized supply chains; and strategies that promote producer-to-producer networking and producer-to-supply chain networking.

Support California’s rural, urban, and Tribal communities to identify, implement, and evaluate strategies to expand access to healthy, sustainably produced, culturally appropriate foods; ensure worker wellbeing across the food chain; minimize the community and environmental costs of food production and distribution; strengthen connections between consumers and producers; and establish and strengthen producer-to-producer connections and producer-to-supply chain connections.

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