Opportunity Information: Apply for NEAPS1803
The NEA The Citizens' Institute on Rural Design (CIRD), FY2019 grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number NEAPS1803) is a discretionary National Endowment for the Arts program offered through a Cooperative Agreement to select a single organization to serve as the program "Cooperator." The Cooperative Agreement was scheduled to begin on or after January 1, 2019, and could run for as long as 24 months. The core responsibility of the selected cooperator is to plan and administer CIRD on behalf of the NEA, meaning the award supports the operational leadership and delivery of the CIRD program rather than funding one isolated local project.
CIRD itself is an established NEA initiative that began in 1991, designed to strengthen rural communities by improving quality of life and economic resilience through planning, design, and creative placemaking. The program focuses specifically on rural places and smaller communities, historically targeting locations with populations of 50,000 or less. A central feature of CIRD has been the delivery of multi-day, hands-on workshops hosted in rural communities across the United States. In past years, the program has typically conducted up to four workshops annually, each aimed at helping a host community develop locally driven, practical solutions to real planning and design challenges. The emphasis is on community-informed outcomes that can improve how a place looks and functions, while also supporting long-term economic viability.
The workshop topics described in the solicitation reflect a broad view of rural community development, blending physical planning and design with economic and cultural strategy. Examples of issues CIRD workshops have addressed include downtown revitalization and reinvestment, local and regional economic development, arts-based development and creative placemaking strategies, creative business incubation and entrepreneurship support, multimodal transportation planning, housing needs and community form, and public health-oriented approaches such as "healthy living by design." Taken together, these themes signal that the program is meant to help rural communities align design decisions, infrastructure choices, and cultural assets in ways that make towns more livable, attractive, and economically sustainable.
Eligibility for the opportunity was wide and included many types of public and nonprofit entities capable of operating a national program. Eligible applicants included state, county, and city/township governments; special district governments; independent school districts; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; and nonprofit organizations with IRS 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education in that nonprofit category). This range suggests the NEA was open to partnering with an organization that has national reach and demonstrated capacity to manage complex programming across multiple rural sites.
Administratively, the opportunity was listed under CFDA 45.024 and was released by the National Endowment for the Arts on June 26, 2018, with an original application closing date of August 8, 2018. The award ceiling was $350,000. While the posting notes "ExpectedAwards:" without a number, the structure and language of selecting a single "Cooperator" indicates the intent was to make one primary cooperative award to run the CIRD program during the performance period.Apply for NEAPS1803
- The National Endowment for the Arts in the arts sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "NEA The Citizens' Institute on Rural Design TM (CIRD), FY2019" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.024.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2018-06-26.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2018-08-08. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $350,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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