Cultural Heritage Tourism
Funding Opportunities
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Dear Members, Partners and Friends:
The U.S Department of Agriculture Rural Innovation Stronger Economy (RISE) Grant Program is offering grant assistance to create and augment high-wage jobs, accelerate the formation of new businesses, support industry clusters and maximize the use of local productive assets in eligible low-income rural areas.
Deadline: August 2, 2021
Tourism Tip: Use this grant to create new business and higher paying jobs in your tourism business.
The National Endowment of the Arts is accepting applications for Our Town 2022. Our Town is the National Endowment for the Arts’ creative placemaking grants program. These grants support projects that integrate arts, culture and design activities into efforts that strengthen communities by advancing local economic, physical and/or social outcomes.
Deadline: August 5, 2021
Tourism Tip: Our town grants can support designing public spaces, art festival, public art, art residencies and demonstrations.
The Joyce Foundation launched recently a new grantmaking strategy through 2025 for its programs, focused on racial equity and economic mobility for culture in the Great Lakes region.
Deadline: August 5, 2021
Tourism Tip: Use this grant to start your own cultural heritage tourism initiatives that support artists.
Deadline: August 9, 2021
Tourism Tip: Use this grant to create your tourism business plan.
Deadline: August 12, 2021
Tourism Tip: Use this grant to support your cultural heritage or agritourism initiative.
Deadline: September 15, 2021
Tourism Tip: This opportunity can help any rural agritourism businesses struggling to meet working capital needs.
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is accepting applications for the U.S. Department of Commerce Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program. The program provides new federal funding for grants to eligible entities to expand access to and adoption of broadband service on Tribal Land; or for programs that promote the use of broadband to access remote learning, telework, or telehealth resources during the COVID–19 pandemic. Deadline: September 1, 2021
Tourism Tip: Broadband is a necessity for education, as well as keeping visitors happy.
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: October 6, 21
Tourism Tip: This fund can help support document historical findings for your museum or cultural center.
Deadline: March 15, 2021
Tourism Tip: Use this grant to recover your tourism centered economy.
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.
Deadline: March 22, 2021
Tourism Tip: Use this grant to revive your community from the impact of COVID-19.
Potlatch Fund Invites Applications for Native Communities for Resiliency Projects. The Potlatch Fund aims to build on the Native tradition of giving by increasing philanthropy for and among Tribal communities through grants and empowering community leaders with the tools they need to succeed through training.
Deadline: Rolling
Tourism Tip: Use this grant to support yourself while training to increase philanthropy initiatives in your community.
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USDA The Rural Innovation Stronger Economy (RISE) Grant Program
Deadline: August 2, 2021
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The U.S Department of Agriculture Rural Innovation Stronger Economy (RISE) Grant Program offers grant assistance to create and augment high-wage jobs, accelerate the formation of new businesses, support industry clusters and maximize the use of local productive assets in eligible low-income rural areas.
RISE grant funds can be used to:
- Build or support a business incubator facility
- Provide worker training to assist in the creation of new jobs
- Train the existing workforce with skills for higher-paying jobs
- Develop a base of skilled workers and improve their opportunities to obtain high-wage jobs in new or existing local industries
Grant amounts are awarded competitively with a minimum of $500,000 and a maximum grant amount of $2,000,000.
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NEA Our Town Grants Program
Deadline: August 5, 2021
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Our Town is the National Endowment for the Arts’ creative placemaking grants program. These grants support projects that integrate arts, culture and design activities into efforts that strengthen communities by advancing local economic, physical and/or social outcomes.
Successful Our Town projects ultimately lay the groundwork for systems changes that sustain the integration of arts, culture and design into local strategies for strengthening communities. These projects require a partnership between a nonprofit organization and a local government entity, with one of the partners being a cultural organization. Grants range from $25,000 to $150,000, with a minimum cost share/match equal to the grant amount.
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The Joyce Foundation Joyce Awards
Deadline: August 5, 2021
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The Joyce Foundation accepts grant inquiries online throughout the year for projects based in the Great Lakes Region. The Joyce Foundation invests in evidence-informed public policies and strategies to advance racial equity and economic mobility for the next generation in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin.
Applicants should anticipate the application process to take approximately four to six months from the initial submission of the letter of inquiry to the receipt of funding.
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OIED: Tribal Tourism Grant Program, Part of the NATIVE Act
Deadline: August 9, 2021
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The Program supports Tribes and Tribal organizations to increase their capacity to plan, develop and manage tourism and related infrastructure in support of economic development and the NATIVE Act. The Program will provide funding for Tribes and Tribal organizations to conduct tourism feasibility studies that will empower them to make informed decisions on potential tourism project(s). The Program will also provide funding for Tribes and Tribal organizations to develop business plans on completed tourism feasibility studies.
In addition to the feasibility study, tourism grants may fund business plans for Tribal tourism businesses recovering from the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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NEA: American Rescue Plan Grants to Organizations
Deadline: August 12, 2021
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Grants will be made to eligible organizations to support their own operations. Unlike other Arts Endowment funding programs that offer project-based support, American Rescue Plan funds are intended to support day-to-day business expenses/operating costs, and not specific programmatic activities.
Applicants may request a fixed grant amount for: $50,000, $100,000 or $150,000. Cost share/matching funds are not required. Applicants are asked to select a grant amount that is reflective of their overall organization size and internal capacity.
The Arts Endowment does not fund direct grants to individuals.
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NTIA U.S. Department of Commerce Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program
Deadline: September 1, 2021
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U.S. Department of Agriculture: Business and Industry CARES Act Program
Deadline: September 15, 2021
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These loan guarantees 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 to 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. Applications are encouraged 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.
NHPRC 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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U.S. Economic Development Administration: Travel, Tourism & Outdoor Recreation Program
Deadline: March 15, 2022
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Destination organizations, nonprofits, state or local governments, economic development districts (EDDs), territories and tribal governments and institutions of higher education can apply for these funds. $750 million of EDA’s American Rescue Plan funds are allocated to support the following efforts, including
- Indigenous Communities Challenge ($100 million): Funds competitively awarded to tribal governments and nonprofit organizations that primarily serve indigenous communities for technical assistance, planning, workforce development, entrepreneurship, and public works and infrastructure projects
- Competitive Tourism Grants ($240 million): Funds competitively awarded to local governments and nonprofit organizations in regions most impacted by job loss in the travel, tourism and outdoor recreation sectors—for projects that promote economic resilience and development and align with an EDA Investment Priority.
- Build Back Better Regional Challenge ($1 billion): Funds competitively awarded to regional coalitions for projects that grow new regional industry clusters or scale existing ones through planning, infrastructure, innovation and entrepreneurship, workforce development and financing—excluding travel and tourism-related projects.
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For more information, visit www.epa.gov or Email your questions about the American Rescue Plan Indigenous Communities program to Indigenous@eda.gov or visit www.eda.gov/contact to find contact information for your Economic Development Representative.
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U.S. Economic Development Administration: Indigenous Communities Program
Deadline: March 22, 2022 (applications reviewed on rolling basis.)
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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.
This program is designed to support the needs of Tribal Governments and Indigenous communities. EDA will support these important partners to develop and execute economic development projects that they need to recover from the pandemic and build economies for the future.
A wide range of technical, planning, workforce development, entrepreneurship, and public works and infrastructure projects are eligible for funding under this program.
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Potlatch Fund for Native Communities Resilience Project
Deadline: Rolling
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The Potlatch Fund aims to build on the Native tradition of giving by increasing philanthropy for and among Tribal communities through grants and empowering community leaders with the tools they need to succeed through training. To that end, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on Native communities, the Potlatch Resiliency Fund will support resiliency actions that create hope, social connection, adaption, flexibility and purpose. Grants of $10,000 and $15,000 will be awarded in support of general operating funds, projects and artists.
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On March 11, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden signed the American Rescue Plan into law. This historic legislation was designed to enable all Americans to respond to and recover from the impacts of COVID-19.
Under the American Rescue Plan, EDA was allocated $3 billion in supplemental funding to assist communities nationwide in their efforts to build back better by accelerating the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and building local economies that will be resilient to future economic shocks.
American Rescue Plan funding enables EDA to provide larger, more transformational investments across the nation while utilizing its greatest strengths, including flexible funding to support community-led economic development.
With an emphasis on equity, EDA investments made under the American Rescue Plan will directly benefit previously underserved communities impacted by COVID-19.
EDA is making a Coal Communities Commitment, allocating $300 million of its $3 billion American Rescue Plan appropriation to ensure support for these communities as they recover from the pandemic and create new jobs and opportunities, including through the creation or expansion of a new industry sector. This commitment will be fulfilled through $100 million in Build Back Better Regional Challenge grants and $200 million in Economic Adjustment Assistance grants.
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