Promotion of the Arts – Local Arts Agencies Program

The National Endowment for the Arts administered the Promotion of the Arts—Local Arts Agencies Program (CFDA 45.023), with the most recent grant award issued on September 1, 1995, making this program inactive for over thirty years. No grant awards have been disbursed since 1995, and no recent grant opportunities are present in the current funding landscape.

The program funded Project Grants exclusively, supporting technical assistance, leadership training, community artist residencies, public art projects, and arts-in-education initiatives through local arts agencies and related institutions. Representative awards included $15,000 to the Wall Street Center for the Arts for community cultural planning in Butte County, California (December 1991); $5,555 to the Humphrey Institute for a local arts leadership institute (December 1991); and $12,200 to the Mono County Arts Council for a public art project (February 1995). Smaller awards supported subgrants to rural and underserved local arts agencies to hire first-time professional directors and funding for community arts centers to build artistic capability.

The National Endowment for the Arts was the sole funding agency under this program, obligating $44 thousand in combined federal dollars across nine Project Grants issued between December 1991 and September 1995. Award sizes were typically modest, ranging from $39 to $15,000. The program operated on an irregular cadence: two awards in 1991, one in 1992, one in 1993, one in 1994, and four in 1995, with no activity thereafter.

This program is not a current pursuit opportunity. The thirty-one-year funding gap and absence of posted opportunities indicate the program is dormant or discontinued.