NEA Our Town Technical Assistance Program
 
  				This Cooperative Agreement will begin no earlier than February 1, 2016, and end on January 30, 2018.    Scope of Work  The purpose of this Program Solicitation is to select an organization (Cooperator) to implement the Our Town Technical Assistance Pilot Program activities as described below. In brief, the Cooperator will:  ï‚· Plan, coordinate, and implement a technical assistance program serving select Our Town grantees that will both assist these organizations in effectively executing their creative placemaking activities and educate the Arts Endowment in its understanding of the creative placemaking field.  Projects must include these components:  1. Short-term, targeted technical assistance consultancies with selected organizations.  2. A barriers analysis across the selected organizations to identify impediments to successful creative placemaking.  3. Development and dissemination of project resource materials for participating organizations as well as other practitioners and general audiences.  ï‚· Present recommendations on the desirability and viability of a future technical assistance program for all Our Town grantees, including a cost analysis that ramps up from 50 to 200 grantees throughout the country.
					General information about this opportunity
					
					Last Known Status
				 
					Deleted 08/20/2015 (Archived.)
					Program Number
				 
					NEAPS1501					
Federal Agency/Office
				 
					Agency: NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES
Office: National Endowment for the Arts					
Type(s) of Assistance Offered
				 
					Cooperative Agreement					
Who is eligible to apply/benefit from this assistance?
					Applicant Eligibility
					This Cooperative Agreement will begin no earlier than February 1, 2016, and end on January 30, 2018.    Applicant Eligibility    Nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3), U.S. organizations; units of state or local government; or federally recognized tribal communities or tribes may apply. To be eligible, the applicant organization must:  â₏¢ Meet the Arts Endowment's "Legal Requirements" at the time of application.  â₏¢ Have submitted acceptable Final Report packages by the due date(s) for all Arts Endowment award(s) previously received.  An organization may submit only one proposal under this program solicitation.  You may apply to other Arts Endowment funding opportunities, including Art Works and Our Town, in addition to this program solicitation. In each case, the request must be for a distinctly different project.					
What is the process for applying and being award this assistance?
					Application Procedure
					The Grants.gov system must receive your validated and accepted application no later than 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on July 21, 2015. We strongly recommend that you submit at least 10 days in advance of the deadline to give yourself ample time to reso					
Deadlines
					07/21/2015					
Other Assistance Considerations
					Formula and Matching Requirements
					This program does not have cost sharing or matching requirements.					
Who do I contact about this opportunity?
					Headquarters Office
					NEA Web Manager					
Website Address
					http://arts.gov/program-solicitation-our-town-technical-assistance-program
					E-mail Address
					webmgr@arts.gov
					Financial Information
					Obligations
					$0.00					
Range and Average of Financial Assistance
					Awards range from $500,000.00 to $500,000.00