NEA Challenge America, FY2020

The National Endowment for the Arts is offering grants through the Challenge America category, which provides support to small and mid-sized organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations. The grants are available for professional arts programming and for projects that emphasize the potential of the arts in community development. The target audience for these projects should be underserved populations, such as those limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability. • The grant amount is $10,000. • The project duration can be up to two years. • The Arts Endowment's support of a project may start on or after January 1, 2020. • Applicants can be Native American tribal governments, private institutions of higher education, state governments, city or township governments, independent school districts, nonprofits, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, and special district governments.