Challenge America Fast-Track Grants

Posted by National Endowment for the Arts on December 19, 2016

National Endowment for the Arts Accepting Applications for Challenge America Fast-Track Grants

The National Endowment for the Arts is accepting applications from small and midsize organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations, including those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability.

Through the Challenge America Fast-Track grants program, NEA will award grants of $10,000 to projects designed to extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations. A minimum match of $10,000 from an outside funder is required. Applicants are encouraged to consider partnerships among organizations, both in and outside the arts, as appropriate to their projects.

To be eligible, applicants must be a nonprofit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization; a unit of state or local government; or a federally recognized tribal community or tribe. Applicants may be an arts organization, a local arts agency, an arts service organization, a local education agency (school district), or other organization able to help advance NEA’s goals. All organizations must have a three-year history of programming prior to the application deadline.

For complete program guidelines and application procedures, see the NEA website.

DEADLINE: APRIL 13, 2017

https://www.arts.gov/grants-organizations/challenge-america/grant-program-description