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<h2 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:inherit;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;font-weight:normal">Arts engagement, cultural planning, and design projects should represent the distinct
character and quality of their communities, and be carried out by a local government entity in partnership with a nonprofit organization.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Projects</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">The Arts Endowment plans to support a variety of projects across the country in urban and rural communities of all sizes. Please review the <a href="http://arts.gov/national/our-town/grantees/type" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:brown;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">list
of grants</span></b></a> on our website to see the types of projects that have been funded recently through Our Town. You might also want to look at examples of projects in the online storybook of Our Town projects called <a href="http://arts.gov/exploring-our-town" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:brown;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">'Exploring
Our Town</span></b></a>.' While these grants are illustrative, they represent only a sample of the types of projects that Our Town supports.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">Projects should represent the distinct character and quality of their communities, and must reflect the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:inherit">A vision for enhancing the livability of the community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:inherit">A systemic approach to equitable civic development.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:inherit">Support for artists, design professionals, and arts organizations by integrating the arts and design into the fabric of civic life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">Projects may include arts engagement, cultural planning, and design projects such as:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:inherit;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Arts Engagement</span></strong><span style="font-family:inherit"><br>
Arts engagement projects support artistically excellent artistic production or practice as the focus of creative placemaking work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:inherit">Innovative programming that fosters interaction among community members, arts organizations, and artists, or activates existing cultural and community assets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:inherit">Festivals and performances that activate spaces not normally used for such purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:inherit">Public art that improves public spaces and strategically reflects or shapes the physical and social character of a community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:inherit;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">Cultural Planning</span></strong><span style="font-family:inherit;background:white"><br>
Cultural planning projects support the development of artistically excellent local support systems necessary for creative placemaking to succeed.</span><span style="font-family:inherit"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:inherit;background:white">Creative asset mapping.</span><span style="font-family:inherit"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:inherit;background:white">Cultural district planning.</span><span style="font-family:inherit"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:inherit;background:white">The development of master plans or community-wide strategies for public art.</span><span style="font-family:inherit"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:inherit;background:white">Support for creative entrepreneurship.</span><span style="font-family:inherit"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:inherit;background:white">Creative industry cluster/hub development.</span><span style="font-family:inherit"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:inherit;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Design</span></strong><span style="font-family:inherit"><br>
Design projects that demonstrate artistic excellence while supporting the development of places where creative activities occur, or where the identity of place is created or reinforced.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:inherit">Design of public spaces, e.g., parks, plazas, landscapes, neighborhoods, districts, infrastructure, bridges, and artist-produced elements of streetscapes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">We understand that creative placemaking projects are often multi-year, large-scale initiatives. Please specify in your application which phase or phases of your project are included in your request for NEA funding. All phases
of a project -- except for those for facilities noted below -- are eligible for support.The NEA reserves the right to limit its support of a project to a particular phase(s) or cost(s). All costs included in your Project Budget must be expended during your
period of support.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">Where appropriate, Our Town applications should demonstrate how the project will align with other place-based federal grant programs and policies, including, but not limited to, those from the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Department of Commerce, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), such as Consolidated Plans, Analysis of impediments to Fair Housing Choice, Long Range Transportation Plans, and Asset Management
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If relevant to your project, you will be required to provide information in accordance with the <a href="http://www.epa.gov/Compliance/nepa/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:brown;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">National
Environmental Policy Act</span></b></a> and/or the <a href="http://www.cr.nps.gov/local-law/nhpa1966.htm" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:brown;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">National Historic Preservation Act</span></b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Partnerships</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">A key to the success of creative placemaking is involving the arts in partnership with committed governmental and private sector leadership. All applications must demonstrate a partnership that will provide leadership for the
project. These partnerships must involve two primary partners: 1) nonprofit organization, and 2) local government entity, as defined by these guidelines. One of these two primary partners must be a cultural (arts or design) organization. The highest ranking
official of the local government is required to submit a formal statement of support designating the project as the only one being submitted for the local government. See "<a href="http://arts.gov/grants-organizations/our-town/how-to-prepare-and-submit-an-application" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:brown;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">How
to Prepare and Submit an Application</span></b></a>" for more information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">Additional partners are encouraged and may include an appropriate variety of entities such as state level government agencies, foundations, arts organizations and artists, nonprofit organizations, design professionals and design
centers, educational institutions, real estate developers, business leaders, community organizations, council of governments, rural planning organizations, transportation agencies, special districts, educational organizations, as well as public and governmental
entities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">You may find it helpful to contact your local arts agency as you begin the process within your community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">We Do Not Fund</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">Funding is <strong><span style="font-family:inherit;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">not</span></strong> available for:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:inherit">Construction, purchase, or renovation of facilities. (Design fees, community planning, and installation of public art are eligible; however, no Arts Endowment or matching funds may be directed
to the costs of physical construction or renovation or toward the purchase costs of facilities or land.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:inherit">Costs (and their match) to bring a project into compliance with federal grant requirements. This includes environmental or historical assessments or reviews and the hiring of individuals to write
assessments or reviews or to otherwise comply with the National Environmental Policy Act and/or the National Historic Preservation Act.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:inherit">Projects for which the selection of artists or art works is based upon criteria other than artistic excellence and merit. Examples include festivals, exhibitions, or publications for which no
jury/editorial judgment has been applied.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:inherit">Subgranting or regranting, except for local arts agencies that are designated to operate on behalf of their local governments or are operating units of city or county government. (See more information
on subgranting.) Subgranting activity by designated local arts agencies must be directly relevant to the Our Town project activities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Local education agencies (school districts) and community colleges can apply on behalf of a local government. If a single school also is the local education agency, as is the case with some charter schools, the school may apply with documentation that supports
its status as the local education agency applying on behalf of the local government.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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U.S. Treasury Department Office of Foreign Asset Control. For further information, see<a href="http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:brown;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/</span></b></a> or
contact the Arts Endowment's Grants & Contracts Office at <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=grants@arts.gov" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:brown;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">grants@arts.gov</span></b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">Through Our Town projects, the Arts Endowment intends to achieve the following outcome from our strategic plan: <em><span style="font-family:inherit;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Livability:</span></em> <em><span style="font-family:inherit;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">American
communities are strengthened through the arts</span></em>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">The anticipated long-term results for Livability projects are measurable community benefits, such as growth in overall levels of social and civic engagement; new avenues for expression and creativity; design-focused changes
in policies, laws, and/or regulations; job and/or revenue growth; or positive changes in migration patterns. You will be asked to address the anticipated results in your application. If you receive a grant, you will be asked to provide evidence of those results
at the end of your project. Given the nature of Livability projects, benefits are likely to emerge over time and may not be fully measureable during the period of a grant. You will need to provide evidence of progress toward achieving improved livability as
appropriate to the project. Before applying, please review the <a href="http://arts.gov/sites/default/files/draft-fdr-livability-4-20-14.pdf" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:brown;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">reporting
requirements for Livability</span></b></a>. We recognize that some projects involve risk, and we want to hear about both your successes and failures. Failures can provide valuable learning experiences, and reporting them will have no effect on your ability
to receive NEA funds in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">Beyond the reporting requirements for all grantees, selected Our Town grantees may be asked to assist in the collection of additional information that can help the NEA determine the degree to which agency objectives were achieved.
For example, Our Town grantees may be asked to participate in surveys or interviews, and/or may be asked to assist in publicizing and promoting these data collection efforts. You may be contacted to provide evidence of project accomplishments including, but
not limited to, work samples, community action plans, cultural asset studies, programs, reviews, relevant news clippings, and playbills. Please remember that you are required to maintain project documentation for three years following submission of your final
report.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">We may publish grantees' reports and products on our website. Please note that all federal grantmaking agencies retain a royalty-free right to use all or a portion of grantees’ reports and products for federal purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">You are required to submit Step 1 of 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 December 15, 2014. 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. We will not accept late applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">The Grants.gov Contact Center is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">Step 2 of the application will then be due by January 15, 2015, through the NEA GrantsOnline™ System (NEA-GO) (see the "<a href="http://arts.gov/grants-organizations/our-town/how-to-prepare-and-submit-an-application" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:brown;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">How
to Prepare and Submit an Application</span></b></a>" section for more detail).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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