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There are several grant opportunities available from the IMLS that are due on November 15th, 2024. Click each link for more information on each opportunity. The 21st Century Museum Professionals Program supports projects that offer professional development to the current museum workforce, train and recruit future museum professionals, and identify and share effective practices in museum workforce education and training. The Inspire! Grants for Small Museums Program supports small museums of all disciplines in project-based efforts to serve the public. The program has three project categories: Lifelong Learning, Institutional Capacity, and Collections Stewardship and Access. The Museum Grants for African American History and Culture Program builds the capacity of African American museums and supports the growth and development of museum professionals at African American museums. The Museum Grants for American Latino History and Culture Program supports projects that build the capacity of American Latino history and culture museums to serve their communities and broadly advance the growth and development of a professional workforce in American Latino institutions. Museums Empowered supports projects that use the transformative power of professional development and training to generate systemic change within museums of all types and sizes. Museums for America supports museums of all sizes and disciplines in strategic, project-based efforts to serve the public. | More information here.

The NHPRC seeks archival projects that will significantly improve online public discovery and use of historical records collections. | Deadline: November 7th, 2024. | More information and application.

Cultural Sustainability, a new grant program offered by the six U.S. Regional Arts Organizations (USRAOs) in partnership with The Wallace Foundation, provides general operating support to arts organizations rooted in communities of color with annual operating expenses under $500,000. Mid Atlantic Art’s Cultural Sustainability program will open in October 2024. Please contact culturalsustainability@midatlanticarts.org to receive a notification when the grant guidelines and application post. | More information here.

The Awesome Foundation accepts applications from individuals, groups, and organizations for $1,000 micro-grants toward an “awesome” project. | Deadline is ongoing. | Application and information.

Google Ad Grants equip nonprofits with up to $10,000 per month of free search advertising. Google search ads can be used to raise awareness, attract donors, and recruit new volunteers. To get started, apply for Google for Nonprofits. Once verified, you’ll be able to activate Google Ad Grants.

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.