Deadline: May 4, 2022

NEA Grants for Arts Projects

Develop, test and spread great ideas: CI grants invest in efforts to develop and test ideas to solve problems and create opportunities, and then spread the best ideas across communities.

Inspire, equip and connect leaders: Great ideas spread through people. CI grants invest in efforts to inspire, equip and connect leaders to more effectively lead change.

Tourism Tip: This grant can help fund a wide variety of community projects for any size business.

They recommend you schedule a call with their staff to discuss your idea. For more information, visit bushfoundation.org

Tourism Tip: This grant can help fund new tourism businesses in rural communities.

For more information, visit usda.gov.

The Stock Artist Development Fund supports and promotes outstanding artists identifying with underrepresented communities and provides a platform to showcase and celebrate their independent, empowered, and creative forms of visual expression. The fund offers empowerment of artists’ voices and financial support for talented artists with the eventual impact of promoting imagery that has been historically underrepresented in commercial media and aims to ensure that artists are compensated for their work.

Tourism Tip: This fund can be used to highlight underrepresented Indigenous communities.

For more information, visit adobe.com.

Tourism Tip: This grant can help support Native destinations and projects that share their stories and perspectives on "the founding of the nation," which does not have a defined starting period. 

For more information, visit NPS.gov

Through this grant competition, AmeriCorps seeks to prioritize the investment of national service resources in a variety of areas, including efforts to help local communities respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic; increase educational opportunity and economic mobility for communities experiencing persistent unemployment or underemployment and students experiencing homelessness or those in foster care; support programs that prioritize civic engagement/social cohesion, economic opportunity, education, veterans and military families, caregivers, and survivors; and advance environmental stewardship and climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts, including renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Tourism Tip: This program can help local communities respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

For more information, visit americorps.gov.

Tourism Tip: This grant can be used to develop access to nature and outdoor recreation.

For more information, visit sierranevada.ca.gov.

The Chamiza Foundation invites proposals from the following: New Mexico’s 19 Pueblo Indian tribal communities; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, El Paso, Texas, member of the All-Pueblo Council of Governors and the 20th Pueblo; Pueblo community leadership; non-Pueblo organizations that serve Pueblo communities. These entities must submit a letter of support from the Governor of the Pueblo as evidence that the community has requested their involvement.

Program Emphasis:

The Foundation provides grant support for programs that directly relate to some aspect of the preservation and/or continuity of Pueblo culture and traditional lifeways. Chamiza Foundation grant awards vary in size, on average from $3,000 to $12,000, but no matter the size, each has the potential for great impact.

Tourism Tip: This grant can be used to help strengthen Pueblo Culture.

For more information, visit chamiza.org.

The Denali Commission solicits proposed projects throughout rural Alaska from eligible applicants seeking funding for the following program areas; Energy – general and wood heating system, transportation, facilities for healthcare and community wellness, village infrastructure protection, sanitation, housing, broadband, economic development, workforce development, infrastructure Fund (new).

The Denali Commission intends to make multiple awards because of this funding opportunity announcement, subject to the availability of funds, the quality of applications received and other relevant considerations.

Tourism Tip: This program can help fund infrastructure for Alaska Native businesses.

For more information, visit denali.gov.

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. Awards go 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.

For more information, visit trade.gov.

Tourism Tip: This grant can help preserve or enhance forest environments.

For more information, visit fs.fed.us.

The Energy Efficiency Grant Program funds projects for improvements to existing public-owned facilities and related projects that result in energy and operational cost savings.

Energy efficiency grants are offered for improvements to existing publicly-owned (including tribally-owned) facilities and related projects that result in energy and operational cost savings. Projects will use non-fossil fuel devices and systems whenever possible and be cost-effective. Applicants must be public entities in the state of Washington which include; any city or town, county, special purpose district, municipal corporation, agency, port district or authority, political subdivision of any type, any other entity or authority of local government in corporate form or otherwise in order to apply.

Tourism Tip: This grant funds improvements to existing public-owned facilities and related projects that result in energy and operational cost savings.

More Information:

For more information, visit commerce.wa.gov.

The Bering Sea is one of the most productive marine ecosystems in the world and home to over 70 Indigenous communities. But due to climate change, overfishing, habitat destruction, pollution, and other threats, Native communities are facing more hazardous and unpredictable conditions when hunting or fishing traditional foods. To address this, First Nations is now accepting grant applications for Native communities that are working to protect marine resources in the Bering Sea ecoregion.

Tourism Tip: This grant will fund resources that help sustain Bering Sea Native communities.

More Information:

For more information, visit firstnations.org.

The Department of the Interior’s Office of Native Hawaiian Relations (ONHR) is pleased to announce the launch of a new program for Native Hawaiian organizations (NHO) that implements the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act (NATIVE Act). ONHR’s Heritage (Tourism) Opportunities in Hawaiʻi (HŌʻIHI) Program supports the purposes of the NATIVE Act to establish a more inclusive national travel and tourism strategy and has the potential to deliver significant benefits to NHOs, including job creation, elevated living standards and expanded economic opportunities.

Tourism Tip: This program can help fund Native Hawaiian businesses that implement tourism cultural practices to develop and implement a new or enhance an existing, engagement program.

More Information:

For more information, visit historichawaii.org.

Tourism Tip: This grant can help grow underserved agricultural businesses by providing technical assistance.

More Information:

For more information, visit nifa.usda.gov.

The Economic Development Administration is now accepting applications for the FY22 Build to Scale (B2S) program, which is designed to invest in regional economies through scalable business startups. The Build to Scale program’s national competitions will deploy $45 million to further technology-based economic development initiatives that accelerate high-quality job growth, create more economic opportunities and support the next generation of industry-leading companies.

Tourism Tip: This program can help strengthen existing businesses and fund startup businesses.

More Information:

For more information, visit eda.gov.

Non-profit organizations in DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, VA, USVI, or WV who would like to engage folk and traditional artists, practitioners, or culture bearers in community-based projects are eligible for funding in amounts from $1,000 to $7,000. The majority of project activities must take place within the mid-Atlantic region. Eligible project activities include but are not limited to performances, public art collaborations, workshops, trainings, exhibitions, fieldwork and artistic collaborations. Projects must include some publicly-accessible component, including but not limited to a performance, event, exhibit, video, podcast, Q&A session, public interest meeting, archival collection, website or report.

Tourism Tip: This grand can help fund art-related community projects.

More Information:

For more information, visit midatlanticarts.org.

The Comcast RISE Investment Fund provides monetary grants to help Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC)-owned small businesses grow as they navigate the challenges of the pandemic. The Investment Fund is the latest extension of Comcast RISE (Representation, Investment, Strength and Empowerment), the multi-year, multi-faceted initiative launched in 2020 to provide BIPOC-owned, small businesses the opportunity to apply for marketing and technology services from Comcast Business and Effectv, the advertising sales division of Comcast Cable.

Tourism Tip: This grant can help recover Indigenous tourism businesses negatively impacted by COVID-19.

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For more information, visit comcastrise.com.

Tourism Tip: This program can provide tools to help grow Native businesses that attract visitors.

More Information:

For more information, visit bia.gov.

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.

More Information:

For more information, visit nsbfoundation.com.

The Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development (OIED), through its Native American Business Development Institute (NABDI), is soliciting grant proposals from eligible federally recognized Tribes and Tribal organizations. NABDI award funding will be used to explore economic development opportunities through feasibility studies and business plans. Feasibility studies may concern the viability of an economic development project or business, or the practicality of technology, that a Tribe may choose to pursue to explore how a current Tribal business or enterprises could recover from and adapt to the challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Business plans may concern goals for economic opportunity and recovery from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tourism Tip: This grant can help recover Indigenous tourism businesses negatively impacted by COVID-19.

More Information:

For more information, visit bia.gov.

Tourism Tip: This grant funds small-town community projects.

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For more information, visit t-mobile.com.

The Secretary of the Interior, United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Office of Trust Services, Branch of Tribal Climate Resilience solicits proposals from federally recognized tribes and authorized tribal organizations to receive awards to support tribal climate resilience planning and strategy implementation, and ocean and coastal management planning.

The branch supports tribes as they prepare for climate change impacts on the tribal treaty and trust resources, economies, regenerative agriculture and food sovereignty, conservation practices, infrastructure, and human health and safety. The branch's Annual Awards Program will provide funding for projects that support tribal climate resilience as tribes incorporate science, including Indigenous and Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Indigenous languages, and technical information.

Tourism Tip: This program supports tribal businesses as they prepare for climate change impacts.

More Information:

For more information, visit bia.gov.

Tourism Tip: This grant can help fund any public-and visitor-facing arts program.

For more information, visit arts.gov or email challengeamerica@arts.gov.

Tourism Tip: This grant can help preserve or enhance climbing environments.

For more information, visit accessfund.org.

Tourism Tip: Use this grant to fund an arts and culture family-friendly tourism business.

For more information, visit cfketteringfamilies.com or email info@ketteringfamilyphilanthropies.org.

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 recover Indigenous tourism businesses negatively impacted by COVID-19.

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

Consistent with the President’s commitment to honoring Tribal sovereignty and advancing equity for Indigenous people, applicants will be encouraged to prioritize projects that uplift Tribal and Indigenous-led efforts. Funding will be set aside specifically to support Tribal Nations’ efforts, as well as those of territories. In addition, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) will work to ensure that the effort is implemented in a manner that is consistent with the President’s Justice40 Initiative. Applicants are encouraged to consider how proposals build the conservation and resilience workforce of the future, through workforce development, utilizing national service, and partnering with relevant and accessible training opportunities, such as youth corps.

Tourism Tip: This grant can help Indigenous communities build and upgrade their outdoor recreation infrastructure.

For more information, check back the first week of May to learn about funding opportunities through the America the Beautiful Challenge.

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