Cultural Heritage Tourism
Funding Opportunities
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Dear Members, Partners and Friends:
Deadline: July 6, 2021
Tourism Tip: Use this grant to help fund your agritourism business.
The National Endowment for the Arts is accepting applications for Grants for Arts Projects. These grants support arts projects that use the arts to unite and heal in response to current events; celebrate our creativity and cultural heritage; invite mutual respect for differing beliefs and values; and enrich humanity.
Deadline: July 8, 2021
Tourism Tip: Use this grant to develop an arts program that celebrates cultural heritage. The program has supported powwows and festivals in the past.
The Administration for Children and Families is accepting applications for The Community Economic Development (CED) program. The program provides funding for projects aimed at business development opportunities and creating employment for low-income individuals located in geographic areas with a demonstrated need.
Deadline: July 12, 2021
Tourism Tip: Use this grant to fund a new tourism initiatives that would provide employment.
AmeriCorps is accepting applications for Indian Tribes Grants. AmeriCorps seeks to prioritize the investment of national service resources in a number of different areas.
Deadline: July 23, 2021
Tourism Tip: Use this grant to start work corps for recreation projects, or hire workers to set up an educational program at your museum or cultural center.
The U.S Department of Agriculture is making available up to $3 million in cooperative agreements under the Rural Placemaking Innovation Challenge (RPIC) for eligible entities to help them provide planning support, technical assistance and training to foster placemaking activities in rural communities.
Deadline: July 26, 2021
Tourism Tip: This grant can assist you in placemaking projects that support the arts, recreation and agritourism.
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.
Deadline: August 2, 2021
Tourism Tip: Use this grant to create new 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: Use this grant to assist in placemaking projects that support artists.
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: 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.
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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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NEA Grants for Arts Projects
Deadline: July 8, 2021
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These grants support arts projects that use the arts to unite and heal in response to current events; celebrate our 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 subgrant may request from $10,000 to $150,000 for subgranting programs. A minimum cost share/match equal to the grant amount is required.
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Administration for Children & Families Community Economic Development Projects
Deadline: July 12, 2021
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The Community Economic Development (CED) program provides funding for projects aimed at business development opportunities and creating employment for low-income individuals located in geographic areas with a demonstrated need. Priority points will be awarded to projects that will create jobs in rural communities with high rates of poverty, unemployment, or substance abuse, or hire individuals with low income from rural communities to fill positions created.
Funds can be used for construction and non-construction purposes, and business start-up and expansion activities.
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AmeriCorps Indian Tribes Grants
Deadline: July 23, 2021
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In the FY 2021 AmeriCorps Indian Tribes Grants, AmeriCorps seeks to prioritize the investment of national service resources in:
- Efforts to help local communities recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Applicants may propose programming in any AmeriCorps focus area to aid communities as they recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Programs that actively engage in removing structural racial inequities, advancing racial equality, and increasing opportunity in order to achieve sustainable change in communities.
- Program models that increases economic opportunities for communities by preparing people for the workforce i.e. broad band, agriculture, and building/renovating low income housing.
- Improving student academic performance in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), and/or serving students who attend Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) schools.
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Environmental stewardship such as traditional food systems
- Program models that reduces and/or prevent prescription drug and opioid abuse.
- Program models that positively impact the quality of life of veterans and improve military family strength.
- Programs that reduce child poverty.
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USDA Rural Placemaking Innovative Challenge
Deadline: July 26, 2021
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Qualified entities can use the funds to help rural communities create plans to enhance capacity for broadband access; preserve cultural and historic structures; and support the development of transportation, housing, and recreational spaces.
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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. Cost share/matching 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. 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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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 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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USDA Launches Resource Guide to Help America’s Rural Workforce Build Back Better
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Justin Maxson unveiled a resource guide (PDF, 2.5 MB) to help rural community leaders start and expand employment opportunities and access resources to train, recruit and create a sustainable rural workforce.
The resource guide outlines programs and services available at USDA and other federal agencies that support workforce development in rural communities. It helps community leaders and other local entities to create jobs, train talent, expand educational opportunities and provide technical assistance.
A resource matrix organizes USDA funding opportunities by four key assistance types:
- Workforce development planning;
- Infrastructure and equipment financing;
- Industry and employer engagement, entrepreneurship and local business development; and,
- Education, training and apprenticeship.
The guide also features examples of how customers have used USDA programs to support each assistance type. It includes recommendations on how rural leaders can replicate this assistance in their communities.
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Native Americans in Philanthropy and Candid publish an Investing in Native Communities Funding Map
Investing in Native Communities is continuously updating its site with new grants data. The Funding Map displays grants from Candid’s database that are identified as benefiting Native Americans in the U.S. (including Alaska Natives, American Indians, and Native Hawaiians) or awarded to recipient organizations whose missions focus on Native Americans in the U.S.
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