Cultural Heritage Tourism Funding Opportunities

June 2023

In this newsletter:

 

Asphalt Art Initiative - Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc.

Deadline: June 12, 2023

Tourism Tip: Fund visual art on roadways, pedestrian spaces and public infrastructure in cities. 


EDA 2023 STEM Talent Challenge

Deadline: June 12, 2023

Tourism Tip: Create and implement a STEM talent development strategies that complement your region’s innovation economy.

  

Danone Institute of North America: Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Deadline: June 14, 2023

Tourism Tip: Promote sustainable food systems that reflect that the health and nutrition of people and the health of the planet are interconnected.


USDA Community Facilities Technical Assistance and Training Grant

Deadline: June 15, 2023

Tourism Tip:  Receive technical assistance to identify and plan for a community , prepare reports and surveys to develop community facilities and apply for Agency financial assistance. 


USDA Community Connect Grants

Deadline: June 20, 2023

Tourism Tip: Seek support to provide broadband service for your community and visitors.

 

Yamaha Outdoor Access Initiative - Supporting Access to Land for Work and Play

Deadline: June 23, 2023

Tourism Tip: Promote recreational land use and wildlife conservation practices and protect appropriate and sustainable access to public lands.

 

Bank Of America Charitable Foundation Inc.

Deadline: June 23, 2023

Tourism Tip: Supports programs that contribute to the vitality and livability of communities, such as  preservation, creation or restoration of open space, parks, community gardens and arts programs.


NEH Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations

Deadline: June 28 , 2023

Tourism Tip: Develop a project that includes history, art history, ethnomusicology, archaeology, anthropology, literature, language and linguistics, philosophy, and other areas that offer critical examination of human history and culture.


Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program Department of Agriculture Rural Business-Cooperative Service

Deadline: June 30, 2023

Tourism Tip: Use funds to help pay for your business start-up or development.


USDA Tribal Colleges Research Grants Program

Deadline: June 30, 2023

Tourism Tip: Propose a project in the discipline of food, agricultural or natural resource sciences. Include agritourism as part of an agricultural program or recreation as part of a natural resource program.


NEA Grants for Arts Projects

Deadline: July 6, 2023

Tourism Tip: NEA’s largest grant program. Check the variety of disciples eligible for grants, especially Folk & Traditional Arts, Museums and Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works.

 

Agriculture in the Classroom Program

Deadline: July 6, 2023

Tourism Tip: Support education to each young children about agriculture through agritourism classroom field trips to the farm.


U.S. Chamber of Commerce America’s Top Small Business Awards

Deadline: July 7, 2023

Tourism Tip: Recognize a small businesses who is driving economic growth and stimulating their local communities and economies through for-profit business ownership.


Native Voices Rising 

Deadline: July 10, 2023

Tourism Tip: Supports a wide range of critical issues – including economic development, language preservation, environmental and climate justice, youth and intergenerational engagement. 


USDA Announces New Steps to Enhance Organic Markets and Support Producers

Deadline: July 10, 2023

Tourism Tip: Use funds to enhance and improve your organic markets and support producers.


DOE Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas

Deadline: July 13, 2023

Tourism Tip: Build clean energy knowledge, capacity and self-reliance while improving energy access and resilience.

 

NPS Underrepresented Community (URC) Grant Program

Deadline: July 18, 2023.

Tourism Tip: Develop new historic properties nominations to the National Register.

 

USDA Announces Funding Availability to Expand Meat and Poultry Processing Options for Underserved Producers and Tribal Communities

Deadline: July 19, 2023

Tourism Tip: Invest in independent, local meat and poultry processing projects that increase competition and enhance the resiliency of the food supply chain.

 

USDA Indigenous Animals Harvesting and Meat Processing Grant Program 

Deadline: July 19, 2023

Tourism Tip: Use funds to restore local indigenous food systems and indigenous processing methods

 

USDA Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers and Veteran Farmers and Ranchers

Deadline: July 25, 2023

Tourism Tip: Use to increase the number of farmers and ranchers that can provide agritourism.

 

Our Town Applications

Part 1 Deadline August 3, 2023

Tourism Tip: Support community programs that integrate arts, culture and design.

 

Grant for Artist/Scholar in Residence

Deadline: August 7,  2023

Tourism Tip: Work with the Library of Congress that remix and reuse Library digital collections in creative ways, develop a project that centers on Indigenous or Pacific Islander communities.


U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program 

Deadline: August 18, 2023

Tourism Tip: Develop partnerships to focuse on wildlife conservation, soil health, water quality and other conservation priorities.


Living Languages Grant Program

Deadline: August 18, 2023

Tourism Tip: Build language skills that can be used in authentic storytelling.

 

USDA Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure

Deadline: August 23, 2023

Tourism Tip: Need to work with your state to build infrastructure in the middle-of-the-supply-chain for domestic food and farm businesses and strengthen the

supply chain coordination and targeted market development.

 

NDN Collective Community Action Fund

Deadline: October 31, 2023

Tourism Tip: Address and solve immediate challenges facing your community, such as threats to land, air, water and natural resources.

 

Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund Tribal Energy Plan Grant

Deadline: Ongoing

Tourism Tip: Build renewable energy infrastructure plan and engage broad tribal community participation.


DanPaul Foundation Grants

Deadline: Ongoing

Tourism Tip: Develop clean air and clean waters programs to enrich and educate youth in your community.

Ongoing and Rolling Deadlines

Visit AIANTA’s Cultural Tourism Funding Opportunities webpage for funders with ongoing and rolling deadlines we have previously listed.


Economic Development Administration 2023 Public Works and Economic Adjustment Assistance

Deadline: Ongoing until new publication notice

Tourism Tip: Funds support construction, non-construction, technical assistance and revolving loan fund projects.

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