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The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to African Dance Works of Heritage Works in Michigan. The grant was awarded under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) to support personnel, facilities, safety supplies, and marketing expenses from January 1, 2022 through March 31, 2023 in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to...

This $149,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) supports the "Making the Digital Dance" project at the University of Alabama. The project aims to develop digital infrastructure and tools to increase access to archival dance information across four existing digital performing arts archives. Key project activities include: Prototyping a dance data commons based on the Wikidata integration model to...

The Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awarded a $2,169,255 Cooperative Agreement to the New England Foundation For The Arts, Incorporated under the Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges federal grant program (CFDA 19.415). Through this award, six performing arts ensembles from three countries totaling approximately 52 participants will each tour for 28 days across underserved rural and urban communities in the United States. The ensembles...

The Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awarded a $611,602 project grant to Sister Cities International to administer citizen exchange programs under the Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges program (CFDA 19.415). This 13-month award, effective August 4, 2023 through September 30, 2024, will support programs focused on building mutual understanding and civic engagement between U.S. and global communities, including the American Film...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $100,156 Project Grant to Impulstanz - Vienna International Dance Festival through the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to support the participation of 16 U.S. artists at the Impulstanz Festival. The grant funding will allow Impulstanz to introduce American dance development in Europe by conveying and sharing the latest U.S. trends in dance and performance with local and international guests from May 15, 2021...

Partners of the Americas, Inc. was awarded a $830,492 project grant from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to support the organization's FY 2022 Traditional Public Private Partnership Program. Funded under the agency's Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges program (CFDA 19.415), the award will support Partners of the Americas' exchange activities from June 2022 through October 2023. As described under the CFDA, the project aims to...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the International Association of Blacks in Dance Inc. from January 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023 under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The grant funding will support personnel and facilities expenses to aid the organization's response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support...

The Dance Place received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support personnel expenses from January 1, 2022 through August 31, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), which supports opportunities for all people to participate in the arts and arts education, integrate the arts with strategies that promote well-being and resilience, and build capacity and infrastructure within...

The Department of State Bureau of African Affairs awarded a $105,736 project grant to Found Sound Nation Inc. under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) federal grant program. The grant will fund a project to visit South Africa from September 2021 through October 2022 to document and highlight the shared and distinct experiences of America and South Africa's struggles against racial injustices through music and filmmaking. Specifically, the awardee and its collaborators will use music and...

The U.S. Department of Education, through its Overseas Programs - Group Projects Abroad (CFDA 84.021) program, awarded a $166,093.00 project grant to the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) to study Brazil's African diaspora voice through art, history, language, and culture. The project will run from July 7, 2023, to December 9, 2024. As a private, non-profit university, UDM has extensive experience in managing federal grants and delivering education services, research, and healthcare services...