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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Fyi….if you didn’t already receive it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Christina Beatty <Christina.Beatty@arts.ok.gov>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 2, 2018 2:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Christina Beatty <Christina.Beatty@arts.ok.gov><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Fw: FY 2019 Our Town Grant Application Guidelines Now Available!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Just wanted to make sure that you were aware of this upcoming August deadline for the National Endowment for the Arts' Our Town program. Please share widely.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Christina<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> NEA Design+CP <<a href="mailto:neadesign@arts.gov">neadesign@arts.gov</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 2, 2018 12:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Christina Beatty<br>
<b>Subject:</b> FY 2019 Our Town Grant Application Guidelines Now Available!</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
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<span style="font-size:1.0pt">Announcing a new (earlier!) deadline, highlights from the new guidelines, and helpful application resources
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for the </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001c2syczMLxWgQQu9EjInhqkZkY6_vRxDpY3oaJTOFBk4KwixslGEbLHAZ2RhJjnLys6ZbW-iOnhOOFS4psLzosh9rRYk5jZRWjavpKVQkqiViABNlXvkK6DbGzfulfeStf3X9LzUQyW5Vsv0toMyzZW2ueCS_aXXj-6j1SJN6iIPGdd1nmmTvmNSC5VEy2BPuAjWpu1EZrc4=&c=NxSr_UUbDV5qYle3-hw1o7YB60VDCJQsOmX2fW-PC7657e_4CZY6gA==&ch=B3mjX53S-8YKM7T65n2FftpMKq0TJnB4QK1n490bMaEhSWex5uzv3w==" target="_blank" id="LPlnk491348"><b><span style="color:#368A9C">FY
2019 Our Town program</span></b></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">!
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">highlights from the new guidelines<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Through project-based funding for creative placemaking, the NEA Our Town program seeks to support projects that integrate arts, culture, and design activities into
efforts that strengthen communities by advancing local economic, physical, and/or social outcomes. Successful Our Town projects ultimately lay the groundwork for systemic changes that sustain the integration of arts, culture, and design into strategies for
strengthening communities, and should engage in partnership with other sectors (such as agriculture and food, economic development, education and youth, environment and energy, health, housing, public safety, transportation, and workforce development).</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The application deadline for Our Town is</span></b><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001c2syczMLxWgQQu9EjInhqkZkY6_vRxDpY3oaJTOFBk4KwixslGEbLM56EqzzHVeKEbPGnnx2Z86zWBcnurKc7LFBU9a4jlP3rG25UY_2iB-9tBsGd8FnYXpLxSouCdEYlSRNFMNIacr6G-NidBNDZyGXm3Vo8VkWNxyBylg4mdYkpex5Ox3NiZ7K3eGf7DMBrSTb3i-oB3OURNKs-RGtcg==&c=NxSr_UUbDV5qYle3-hw1o7YB60VDCJQsOmX2fW-PC7657e_4CZY6gA==&ch=B3mjX53S-8YKM7T65n2FftpMKq0TJnB4QK1n490bMaEhSWex5uzv3w==" target="_blank" id="LPlnk203247"><b><span style="color:#3E92A3">August
9, 2018</span></b></a> <b>(earlier than past years!).</b></span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> This round will support creative placemaking projects that start on or after July 1, 2019 in two categories:
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</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Through arts engagement, cultural planning, design, and/or artist/creative industry support, these projects contribute to improved quality of life in local communities. These
projects require a partnership between a nonprofit organization and a local government entity, with one of the partners being a cultural organization. Matching grants range from $25,000 to $200,000, with a minimum cost share/match equal to the grant amount. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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Building Projects</span></b></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3E92A3">. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">These projects build and disseminate knowledge about how
to leverage arts, culture, and design as mechanisms for strengthening communities. These grants are available to arts service or design service organizations, and/or other national or regional membership, policy, or university-based organizations. These projects
require a partnership that will facilitate the knowledge sharing and/or exchange. Matching grants range from $25,000 to $100,000, with a minimum cost share/match equal to the grant amount.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">We are looking for projects that will strengthen communities.</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> In your application, we will
ask you to explain how the proposed project will help realize positive and equitable economic, physical, and/or social outcomes. The “Strengthening Communities Objective” takes the place of the “Livability Objective” language from previous years.
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">We are looking for catalytic projects.</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> Review criteria now acknowledge transformative projects
that show promise for supporting the long-term, systemic integration of arts, culture, and design into approaches to community challenges.
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">We’ve updated the list of project types.
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The list, meant to inspire applications to consider the range of ways arts, culture, and design can be tapped, includes activities related to arts engagement, cultural planning,
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criteria for Place-Based Projects</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">or
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criteria for Knowledge Building Projects</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">to be sure you’re prepared to meet all application requirements. Both categories of Our Town projects require partnerships. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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spend some time with this showcase of successful, past-funded example projects from around the country. The database of 77 select projects can be sorted by project type, location, community setting, and more.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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organizations and artists can play an essential role in the success of communities across America</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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