Project Grant 191975555C24

This $1,000,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), supports the Southwest Folklife Alliance Inc. (dba Tucson Meet Yourself) in implementing the National Folklife Network (NFN) initiative. The NFN aims to bolster the folk and traditional arts field through training, fieldwork, convenings, community collaborations, and cultural asset mapping. The award period runs from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2025. The grantee, a non-profit organization specializing in preserving and promoting folk and traditional arts, particularly in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands region, will leverage this federal funding to strengthen the capacity and infrastructure of the folk and traditional arts sector through various programmatic activities.