Grant Programs at NEFA

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Overview

NEFA's grant programs provide funding to artists and nonprofit organizations in the areas of dance, performing arts, and public art. Each grant program has its own deadlines, funding criteria, and guidelines. Below is a list with brief descriptions of each of NEFA's grant programs. For more information on a particular program, click on its name below.

ARTS JOBS: RECOVERY FUNDING
NEFA Recovery Act funding opportunities are available to organizations that have received NEFA funding in the past four years, following the practice of the NEA's Recovery Act funding, and to select public art projects in New England.

American Masterpieces: Dance (AMD) is the dance component of a major initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to acquaint Americans with the best of their cultural and artistic legacy. The AMD project celebrates the extraordinary and rich evolution of dance and choreography in the United States. With its partners, NEFA and Dance/USA, the NEA will sponsor select performances, tours, and educational programs that will reach large and small communities throughout the United States.

Expeditions funds the development and presentation of cross-disciplinary touring projects for New England communities. Grants are made to New England-based nonprofit organizations to support planning or touring of projects with performing, literary, and/or visual arts components.

Meet the Composer/New England offers grants to nonprofit organizations in New England to provide meaningful interaction between composers and audiences, in conjunction with performances of the composer's work.

National Dance Project (NDP) provides grants for the production and touring of contemporary dance work by regionally and nationally significant artists in the United States and abroad. NDP Production Grants support the development of new dance work. NDP Touring Grants support the presentation and distribution of the work created by Production Grant recipients, and a limited number of other nominated tours each touring season.

Native Arts @ NEFA supports Native American artists in New England and nationally through grantmaking and network development.

New England States Touring (NEST) provides support to New England-based nonprofit organizations for performances, readings, and related community activities by artists with NEST-eligible profiles on MatchBook.org.

Presenter Travel Fund provides monetary assistance to arts programmers or curatorial staff in New England so that they may investigate new or unfamiliar work outside of their home community. Applicants may apply for funding to help cover the expense of attending festivals, showcases, conferences, or other cultural events.

Public Art at NEFA supports public art projects through planning or implementation grants awarded to community-based nonprofit organizations for engagement with individual artists. Organizations funded through NEFA’s public art programs represent a broad array of nonprofits, including the arts, the environment, community development, youth, and education.