The Creative Forces Community Engagement Grant is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in partnership with Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA). This grant program aims to improve the health, well-being, and quality of life for military service members and veterans exposed to trauma as well as their families and caregivers through experiences of art or art making.
Donor Name: Mid-America Arts Alliance
Country: U.S., District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands
States: All States
Counties: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Type of Entities: Nonprofit organizations, State or Local Government
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 12/15/2021
Size of the Grant: $10,000 – $50,000
Details:
Creative Forces seeks to improve the health, well-being, and quality of life for military service members and veterans exposed to trauma, as well as their families and caregivers, by increasing knowledge of and access to clinical creative arts therapies and community arts engagement.
These Creative Forces Community Engagement Grants are intended to support non-clinical arts engagement programs taking place in healthcare, community, or virtual settings. Creative Forces-supported community programs have involved a range of arts activities, including visual, written, and performing arts offered through single events, drop-in programs, and ongoing engagement led by artists in residence, teaching artists, or creative arts therapists.
Funding Information
$10,000 – $50,000
Eligibility Criteria
The Applicant Organization must:
- Be a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)3, US organization, a unit of state or local government, or a federally recognized tribal community or tribe located in the US (including the District of Columbia and all US territories as well as the Native nations that share that geography);
- Have a minimum of three years’ experience:o programming for/with military communities or o presenting/producing arts-based projects;
- Have completed a three-year history of programming prior to the application deadline.
- Programming is not required to have taken place during consecutive years. If your programming was affected or suspended due to COVID-19, you may reference 2020 or 2021 programming that was cancelled or reimagined due to the pandemic. Virtual programming, planning, and COVID-19 recovery activities are considered to be programming. You may also choose to list arts programming from a recent year other than 2020 or 2021. For the purpose of defining eligibility, “three-year history” refers to when an organization began its programming and not when it incorporated or received nonprofit, tax-exempt status.
- Apply directly on their own behalf. Applications through a fiscal sponsor/agent are not allowed;
- Have a unique entity identifier (UEI), created in the System for Award Management [SAM.gov], currently a Dun & Bradstreet Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS).
- Be in good standing with M-AAA, the NEA, and all other federal agencies, with no delinquent reports and/or grant documents;
- Commit to M-AAA’s Grantee Assurance of Compliance and Federal Suspension and Disbarment Policy .
For more information, visit Mid-America Arts Alliance