Dear Members, Partners and Friends:
Deadline: 6/9/21
Tourism Tip: This opportunity can help fund outdoor-based tourism attractions.
The National Endowment for the Arts is accepting applications for grants that support projects that use the arts to unite and heal in response to current events; celebrate creativity and cultural heritage; invite mutual respect for differing beliefs and values; and enrich humanity.
Deadline: 6/16/21
Tourism Tip: This opportunity is great for funding cultural arts projects and language preservation programs.
The Aaron Copland Fund for Music is now accepting applications for the 2021 Performance Program. This program works to support performing and presenting organizations whose artistic excellence encourages and improves public knowledge and appreciation of serious contemporary American music.
Deadline: 6/30/21
Tourism Tip: This fund can help support projects providing public knowledge of cultural and Indigenous music.
The Wildhorse Foundation makes grants to eligible organizations in their homeland area, which includes Morrow, Umatilla, Union, and Wallowa counties in Oregon and Benton, Columbia, and Walla Walla counties in Washington, along with Native American organizations in the greater Pacific Northwest.
Deadline: 7/1/21
Tourism Tip: This opportunity is perfect for funding arts, cultural activities and educational projects at your tourism enterprises.
New Earth Foundation invites applications for innovative projects with the potential to enhance life on the planet and brighten the future, furthering peace.
Deadline: 7/1/21
Tourism Tip: This opportunity can help support educational innovations that prepare youth to become the socially responsible leaders of the future and strategies that offer economic improvement and opportunities.
Native American Business Development Institute (NABDI) grant, is soliciting proposals from
tribes for technical assistance funding to hire consultants to perform feasibility studies of
economic development opportunities.
Deadline: 7/2/21
Tourism Tip: Use this opportunity to hire a consultant to develop a tourism enterprise to help your community's economy.
Deadline: 7/6/21
Tourism Tip: Use this grant to help fund your agritourism business.
Deadline: 9/15/21
Tourism Tip: This opportunity can help any rural agritourism business struggling to meet working capital needs.
The National Historic Publications & Records Commission NHPRC is accepting applications to fund projects that will significantly improve online public discovery and use of historical records collections. The Commission encourages projects centered on collections of America’s early legal records, such as the records of colonial, territorial, county, and early statehood and tribal proceedings that document the evolution of the nation’s legal history.
Deadline: 10/6/21
Tourism Tip: This fund can help support document historical document findings for your museum or cultural center.
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The National Forrest Matching Awards Program
June 9, 2021
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The National Forrest Foundation is soliciting proposals for its Matching Awards Program (MAP) to provide funds for on-the-ground projects that directly benefit America’s National Forests and Grasslands. MAP pairs federal funds provided through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Forest Service with non-federal dollars raised by award recipients, multiplying the resources available to implement stewardship projects that benefit the National Forest system.
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National Endowment for the Arts: Grants for Art Projects
Deadline: June 16
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The National Endowment for the Arts is accepting applications for grants that support projects that use the arts to unite and heal in response to current events; celebrate creativity and cultural heritage; invite mutual respect for differing beliefs and values; and enrich humanity.
Applicants may request cost share/matching grants ranging from $10,000 to $100,000. Designated local arts agencies eligible to sub-grant may request from $10,000 to $150,000 for sub-granting programs in the Local Arts Agencies discipline. A minimum cost share/match equal to the grant amount is required.
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The Aaron Copland Fund for Music: The 2021 Performance Program
Deadline: June 30, 2021
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The Aaron Copland Fund for Music is now accepting applications for the 2021 Performance Program. This program works to support performing and presenting organizations whose artistic excellence encourages and improves public knowledge and appreciation of serious contemporary American music.
Funds are available for general operating support for professional performing ensembles and presenting organizations with a history of substantial commitment to contemporary American music and with plans to continue that commitment. The program also provides project support for exceptionally important activities relating to contemporary American music proposed by professional performing ensembles and presenting organizations that do not normally feature contemporary American music in their programming.
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Wildhorse Foundation Grant Program
Deadline: July 1, 2021
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Each year, the Wildhorse Foundation makes grants to eligible organizations in their homeland area, which includes Morrow, Umatilla, Union, and Wallowa counties in Oregon and Benton, Columbia, and Walla Walla counties in Washington, along with Native American organizations in the greater Pacific Northwest.
Grants of up to $20,000 will be awarded to projects focused on the arts, cultural activities, education, environmental protection, gambling addiction prevention, substance abuse education and treatment, historic preservation, public health, public safety, and salmon restoration.
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New Earth Foundation: Environmental Peace Projects Grants
Deadline: July 1, 2021
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New Earth Foundation invites applications for innovative projects with the potential to enhance life on the planet and brighten the future, furthering peace. The foundation will award grants in support of pioneering yet practical projects in many fields of endeavor, including but not limited to environmental initiatives that are working to help eliminate pollution and save the planet’s ecosystems; community efforts that create models of social sustainability; educational innovations that prepare youth to become the socially responsible leaders of the future; and strategies that offer economic improvement and opportunities.
The foundation is especially interested in projects with the potential to be replicated so that excellent ideas and work can multiply and benefit many.
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Bureau of Indian Affairs: Native American Business Development Institute Grant
Deadline: July 2, 2021
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The Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development (OIED), through its Native American Business Development Institute (NABDI) grant, is soliciting proposals from Tribes for technical assistance funding to hire consultants to perform feasibility studies of economic development opportunities. In addition to the feasibility study, NABDI grants may fund business plans for proposed businesses or tribal businesses recovering from the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture: Regional Food System Partnership
Deadline: July 6, 2021
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The RFSP supports partnerships that connect public and private resources to plan and develop local or regional food systems. The RFSP focuses on building and strengthening local or regional food economy viability and resilience, and this includes pandemic response and recovery. Applicants will work with their partners to catalyze the development of local or regional food systems. Applicants will coordinate efforts within the partnership to set priorities, connect resources and services, and measure progress towards common goals.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture: Business and Industry CARES Act Program
Deadline: September 15, 2021
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USDA has nearly $1 billion in loan guarantee authority that must be used as working capital to prevent, prepare for, or respond to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. For the first time, agricultural producers may access this program if they are ineligible for financing from USDA’s Farm Service Agency.
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National Archives and Records Administration: Access to Historical Records: Archival Projects
Deadline: October 6, 2021
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The NHPRC is accepting applications to fund projects that will significantly improve online public discovery and use of historical records collections. The Commission encourages projects centered on collections of America’s early legal records, such as the records of colonial, territorial, county, and early statehood and tribal proceedings that document the evolution of the nation’s legal history.
The Commission is especially interested in projects to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. We encourage applications that use collections to examine the ideals behind the founding of the United States and the continual interpretation and debate over those ideals over the past 250 years.
We welcome projects that engage the public, expand civic education, and promote understanding of the nation’s history, democracy, and culture from the founding era to the present day.
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The Chief Standing Bear Prize for Courage Committee announced the establishment of the Chief Standing Bear Prize for Courage. This new award, which will be presented at a public event in Lincoln, Nebraska on October 10, 2021, was created by the Committee to honor Native Americans who exemplify courage in the spirit of Ponca Chief Standing Bear.
The recipient of the Prize will receive a monetary prize of $5,000 and a statuette of Chief Standing Bear created by renowned artist Benjamin Victor, the sculptor of the iconic Statuary Hall Chief Standing Bear sculpture.
The Committee will begin accepting nominations for the award on May 12, 2021. The nominations, which can be submitted via web based application form at www.chiefstandingbear.org, must describe how the nominee exhibits the ideals and philosophies of Chief Standing Bear through their acts of political or societal courage
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