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The Teagle Foundation works to support and strengthen liberal arts education in the United States. The Foundation’s Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts initiative, jointly sponsored with the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, aims to bring the lifelong benefits of a liberal arts education to students who historically have been excluded from higher education—including low-income students, first-generation students, students of color, and immigrant students—who now constitute the “new majority” of undergraduates and depend on community college as their gateway to higher education. Support is provided for statewide, regional, or consortial academic partnerships between public two-year and private four-year colleges to facilitate transfer and completion of the baccalaureate in the liberal arts. The focus is on building comprehensive curricular frameworks between community colleges and independent colleges and ensuring alignment in learning objectives between lower and upper division coursework, transferability and applicability of credits, and timely completion of the baccalaureate in the liberal arts. | Deadline: The last concept paper deadline for 2024 is December 1, 2024 | Application and information.

Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Asphalt Art Initiative provides support for arts-driven street redesigns that improve safety, revitalize public spaces, and engage local communities. The Initiative’s current funding round will award ten grants of up to $100,000 each, as well as provide on-call technical assistance and impact evaluation support, to cities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States with populations of 50,000 or more. The focus is on large-scale projects that will make important streets safer and more accessible, create significant new public spaces, or enact other similarly transformative roadway redesigns. Applicants must include a lead city agency which is the primary government agency with oversight of the project. Applicant teams are encouraged to include collaborative partners, such as other city agencies, nonprofit community or arts organizations, or individual artists or consultants. | Deadline: January 31, 2025 | Application and information.

Deadline for the 2025 Grant Applications is Friday, October 25 at 5:00 PM​ | All information on deadlines and guidelines available here.

The County History Partnership Program (CHPP) was created in 2015 to extend local regranting programs to all of the state’s twenty-one counties. The program enables the NJHC to support both existing and emerging local history organizations and practitioners serving diverse audiences. Through the partnership with county re-granting agencies, NJHC support can more effectively reach history organizations, and projects in communities throughout the state. In addition to re-grant funding, counties may apply for their operational costs and programming related to New Jersey history. | Guidelines available here.

USArtists International® supports in-person performances by artists from any state or territory in the U.S. at engagements at international festivals, global presenting arts markets, and other eligible engagements outside of the United States. The program funds individuals and ensembles across all performing arts practices and disciplines. Mid Atlantic Arts is committed to the development and expansion of both the careers and artistic goals of U.S. performers by providing connections to audiences, presenters, curators, and their peers through the USAI program. By elevating the voices that reflect a vibrant array of creative expression, we are able to celebrate and share the diversity and imagination of the United States. | Deadline: February 26th, 2025. | Application and information.

The International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas (ALIPH) is an international cooperation initiative that supports projects that protect and rehabilitate cultural heritage threatened or damaged by conflict or climate change in vulnerable countries. Through the current call for proposals, which prioritizes projects in Africa, funding will be provided to projects addressing the intersection of climate change and cultural heritage across three categories of projects: 1) protection, conservation, and rehabilitation; 2) capacity-building and knowledge transfer; and 3) actionable research. Successful proposals will integrate at least one of these types of initiatives, with priority given to projects integrating more than one of the themes. (Projects within ALIPH’s traditional mission that fall outside the priority themes for this call will also be considered, including those focused on climate change in other areas and conflicts worldwide.) Eligible applicants include non-governmental and civil society organizations, heritage protection institutions, private organizations, universities, and research centers. | Geographic scope is primarily Africa. | Deadline: November 21st, 2024 | More information and application.

Emphasizing direct engagement with contemporary visual art, VIA Art Fund supports projects that exemplify the core values of artistic production, thought leadership, and public engagement. The Fund’s Artistic Production Grants are awarded twice annually to artists, nonprofit organizations, cultural institutions, art production platforms, and biennials or festivals working in the field of contemporary art in the United States and internationally. Support is provided for new artistic commissions that take place outside museum or gallery walls, within the public realm or in non-traditional exhibition environments. If the project takes place in the United States, the featured artists may be U.S.-based or international. Nonprofit entities (U.S.-based or international) applying for support for a project outside the United States must feature the work of a U.S.-based artist. | Deadline: November 4, 2024 for letters of inquiry. | Application and information.

Each year, the Public Library Association (PLA), in partnership with AT&T, offers financial support to public libraries through digital literacy incentive programs. These competitive programs provide the funding and resources necessary for libraries to teach basic digital literacy skills using PLA's DigitalLearn courses and training materials. Since 2022, PLA has helped nearly 400 public libraries conduct more than 3,800 workshops, training more than 19,000 learners across the country. With support from AT&T as part of AT&T Connected Learning and the company's commitment to bridging the digital divide, we have been able to add and update more than a dozen online DigitalLearn courses and develop 9 new complete training packages. Materials are available in both English and Spanish. DigitalLearn courses and materials are free to use. | Deadline: October 18th, 2024. | More information.

The $15 million program will support the creation of public space activation initiatives, such as place making projects, public art installations, and arts-based projects along commercial corridors in 31 municipalities. Non-profit organizations with a 501(c)(3), 501(c)(6), or 501(c)(19) status are eligible to apply. Permitted uses of funding include: placemaking projects, public art installations, arts-based projects, art exhibitions, performances, festivals, parades, concerts or concert series, film and video screenings, and cultural programming. Projects must take place within 1.5 miles of an eligible municipality’s passenger rail station. | Deadline: Monday, November 25, 2024, at 5:00 PM EST | More information and application.

CERF+’s Get Ready program provides individual craft artists grants up to $1,000 to conduct activities that will help safeguard their studios, protect their careers and prepare for emergencies. Artists are encouraged to use the Risk Assessment activity to generate ideas. Priority will be given to applications from people who identify in the global majority or as Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC)* and folk and traditional artists. | Deadline: October 29, 2024 at 11:59 pm Eastern Time. | Application and information.