[OMS_MANAGERS] NEA Our Town Grants

[HARVEY W SCHUBOTHE]

This is a grant that the South Coast Development Council in Coos Bay was awarded last year ($22,000). The key to securing it was that this was not a start from scratch effort but rather a continuation of a REGIONAL collaborative effort that started with a previously funded Sustainable Design Assessment team for Coos County. That grant resulted in an assessment and broad plan for economic development for the region. The Your Town grant was for an implementation plan based on the SDAT report and recommendation. In short, the success was based on the collaboration of many governments and organization already working together as demonstrated by a solid hard product that could be developed further.

Harv Schubothe
Greater Bandon Association
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sheri Stuart <sheri.stuart at state.or.us>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:58:43 
To: <oms_managers at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
Subject: [OMS_MANAGERS] NEA Our Town Grants

FYI - NEA Our Town grant applications due March 1, 2012 
Through Our Town, subject to the availability of funding, the National Endowment for the Arts will provide a limited number of grants, ranging from $25,000 to $150,000, for creative placemaking projects that contribute toward the livability of communities and help transform them into lively, beautiful, and sustainable places with the arts at their core. Our Town will invest in creative and innovative projects in which communities, together with their arts and design organizations and artists, seek to: 
* Improve their quality of life. 
* Encourage creative activity. 
* Create community identity and a sense of place. 
* Revitalize local economies.


Application Deadline: You are required to submit your application electronically through Grants.gov, the federal government's online application system. The Grants.gov system must receive your validated and accepted application no later than 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on March 1, 2012. We strongly recommend that you submit at least 10 days in advance of the deadline to give yourself ample time to resolve any problems that you might encounter. The Arts Endowment will not accept late applications. 
For additional info: 
http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/OurTown/index.html 
  
  
Sheri Stuart, Coordinator 
Oregon Main Street 
725 Summer St., Suite C 
Salem, OR  97301 
503.986.0679 
www.oregonheritage.org <http://www.oregonheritage.org/> 

  
  
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