The Neighborhood Access and Equity Grant Program | Department of Transportation | The Neighborhood Access and Equity Grant Program provides grants to assist economically disadvantaged or underserved communities for planning and construction activities. The Program supports planning, capital construction, and regional partnership activities that aim to restore community connectivity through the removal, retrofit, mitigation, or replacement of highways, roadways, or other infrastructure facilities that create barriers to mobility, access, or economic development. The goals of the Program include prioritizing disadvantaged communities; aiming to improve access to daily needs such as jobs, education, healthcare, food, and recreation; fostering equitable development and restoration; and reconnecting communities by removing, retrofitting, or mitigating highways or other transportation facilities that create barriers to community connectivity, including to mobility, access, or economic development. | https://www.transportation.gov/grants/rcnprogram | September 28, 2023 | August 21, 2023 |
Support Available for Professional Theatres and Dance Companies
| The Shubert Foundation | Grant amount: The minimum grant amount is $15,000.
Description: The Shubert Foundation is dedicated to sustaining and advancing the live performing arts in the United States. Support is primarily provided for nonprofit, professional theatres, with a secondary focus on nonprofit, professional dance companies. The Foundation is especially interested in theatre and dance companies that develop and produce new American work. A limited number of grants are also made in the program areas of Arts Related Organizations and Shubert Scholars. The Foundation exclusively provides general operating support. U.S. nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, a record of artistic activity, a record of developing and producing new work, and a demonstrated commitment to underserved audiences or underrepresented voices are eligible to apply. | https://www.shubertfoundation.org/ | October 18, 2023, for Dance, Arts Related, and Shubert Scholars applications, and December 5, 2023, for Theatre applications | August 18, 2023 |
Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives | Council on Library and Information Resources | Grant amount: $50,000 to $300,000
Description: The Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives program, administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources, provides support to digitize rare and unique content stewarded by collecting organizations in the U.S. and Canada. The focus of the 2023-24 call for proposals, Amplifying Unheard Voices, is to support efforts to digitize rare and unique historical and cultural materials in a variety of formats that deepen public understanding of the histories of people of color and other communities and populations whose work, experiences, and perspectives have been insufficiently recognized or unattended. Nonprofit, academic, independent, and community-based organizations, as well as government entities, in the U.S. and Canada that collect, preserve, and share rare and unique materials with the general public are eligible to apply. | https://www.clir.org/hiddencollections/ | November 1, 2023 | August 18, 2023 |
Disability. Dance. Artistry. Dance and Social Justice Fellowship Program | Dance/NYC | Dance/NYC invites disabled dance workers to submit applications for awards through the third iteration of the Disability. Dance. Artistry. Dance and Social Justice Fellowship Program, designed to recognize the critical role that disabled dance workers and arts practitioners play in social justice movements and to ensure that these workers are supported while continuing to place disability front and center as a positive artistic and generative force. Selected individual NYC-based disabled dance workers will receive awards scaled from $1,500-$4,000, to retroactively reimburse expenses incurred from engaging in dance and/or social justice activities from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023. Applications must be submitted by October 10, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. E.T. | https://bit.ly/3L9v4us | October 10, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. E.T. | September 7, 2023 |