NEA Creative Placemaking Technical Assistance Program, FY2024 | NEAPS2401

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The NEA Creative Placemaking Technical Assistance Program, FY2024 is a federal discretionary funding opportunity from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) that will be awarded as a cooperative agreement. The purpose of the solicitation is to identify a single cooperator to administer the NEA's Creative Placemaking Technical Assistance Program. In plain terms, the NEA is looking for an organization (or eligible public entity) that can run and manage a technical assistance program focused on creative placemaking, meaning efforts that use arts and culture as a core strategy to strengthen communities, shape places, and support local quality of life and economic or civic outcomes.

This opportunity is listed under Funding Opportunity Number NEAPS2401 and falls within the Arts funding activity category (CFDA/Assistance Listing 45.024). Because the instrument is a cooperative agreement, applicants should expect a more hands-on federal partnership than a typical grant, with the NEA likely remaining actively involved in key aspects of the project. Cooperative agreements generally mean the agency anticipates substantial involvement in the funded work, such as collaboration on program design, deliverables, reporting expectations, or coordination with related NEA initiatives.

The maximum federal award amount (award ceiling) is $500,000. The posting does not specify the number of awards expected, but the language of "seeks a Cooperator" strongly suggests a single award is anticipated to support one primary entity responsible for administering the program.

Eligibility is broad and includes many types of government and nonprofit or higher education entities. Eligible applicants include state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, independent school districts, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, and nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education). This range of eligible applicants reflects the cross-sector nature of creative placemaking work, which often involves partnerships among arts organizations, local governments, community development entities, and educational institutions.

Key timing details include a creation date of November 16, 2023, and an original closing date of January 18, 2024. Any applicant planning to pursue a similar opportunity in the future should note that this window was relatively short and would typically require early preparation, including a clear plan for how the applicant would structure, deliver, and evaluate a national or multi-community technical assistance program, and how they would coordinate with the NEA under a cooperative agreement framework.

Overall, this solicitation is less about funding individual arts projects in a single community and more about selecting an administrator for a structured technical assistance program that can support creative placemaking efforts at scale. The core deliverable implied by the notice is program administration: designing and delivering technical assistance services, managing operations, and working in close coordination with the NEA to advance creative placemaking capacity in eligible communities and organizations.

• The National Endowment for the Arts in the arts sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "NEA Creative Placemaking Technical Assistance Program, FY2024" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.024.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2023-11-16.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-01-18. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $500,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.

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