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Cultural Heritage Tourism Funding Opportunities

June 2024

In this newsletter:

AIANTA and the U.S. Forest Service will host a webinar on June 10 at 10:00 a.m. Mountain time regarding the Request for Proposals for NATIVE Act Tribal Projects and Initiatives on or Adjacent to U.S. Forest Service Managed Lands.

US HUD: Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH)

Deadline: June 11, 2024

Tourism Tip: Use funds to revitalize businesses on Main Street or help artists with studio apartments with gallery retail space.

 

NEH Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations (PIPSO)

Deadline: June 12, 2024 (anticipated)

Tourism Tip: Use interpretive strategies to advance your public programming, strengthen interpretive skill sets or enhance community engagement.

 

National Parks Service Foundation – Inclusive Storytelling

Deadline: June 12, 2024

Tourism Tip: Use the funds to amplify the lesser-known stories by adding your Native Voice to the parks.

 

DOE Clean Energy to Communities 

Deadline: June 14, 2024

Tourism Tip: Help your community understand different institutional contexts, resources, challenges, opportunities and ambitions to implement clean energy.

 

NPS Annual Tribal Historic Preservation Office Grants

Deadline: June 17, 2024

Tourism Tip: Provides support for the operation of Tribal Historic Preservation Offices for the identification, evaluation and protection of historic properties.

 

FHWA Active Transportation Infrastructure Investment Program

Deadline: June 18, 2024

Tourism Tip: Use funds to protect, improve and connect transportation.

 

HUD's FY 2024/2025 Community Compass Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Program

Deadline: June 20, 2024

Tourism Tip: Use funds for climate resilience and environmental reviews.

 

Bank Of America Charitable Foundation Inc

Deadline: June 21, 2024

Tourism Tip: Use funds to strengthen broader community vitality by addressing affordable housing, small business, and neighborhood revitalization needs.

 

USFS Tribal Wildlife Grant Program

Deadline: June 21, 2024

Tourism Tip: Use for planning or managing programs to benefit wildlife and their habitat, especially those with cultural or traditional importance. Funding can also be used for mapping, surveys and public education.

 

Bank of America Charitable Foundation

Deadline: June 21, 2024

Tourism Tip: Focus on economic mobility in small businesses and support for community arts and cultural institutions.

 

National Forest Foundation Matching Awards Program

Deadline: June 21, 2024

Tourism Tip: Provide opportunities for your community to benefit from activities on National Forest System lands or adjacent public lands. 

 

Freeport-Mcmoran Copper & Gold Foundation Community Investment Fund

Deadline: June 26, 2024

Tourism Tip: Use funds for project priorities, strategies and goals to collaborate with communities and make transformative change. Available in CO, AZ and NM.

 

NIFA’s Tribal Colleges Extension Program: Special Emphasis

Deadline: June 28, 2024

Tourism Tip: Use the funds to engage your Tribal Extension Program for economic development and agritourism.

 

Native Voices Rising Grant

Deadline: June 28, 2024

Tourism Tip: Use funds to support youth and artists expressing the Native Voice in communities.

 

USDA Rural Economic Development Loan & Grant Program

Deadline: June 30, 2024

Tourism Tip: USDA provides zero-interest loans to local utilities, which pass the loans through to local tourism and tourism-related businesses that create employment.

 

Earth Rising Foundation

Deadlines: June 30, 2024

Tourism Tip: Implement regenerative farming practices.

 

USDA Rural Energy for America Renewable Energy Systems & Energy Efficiency Improvement Loans & Grants

Deadlines: June 30, and September 30, 2024

Tourism Tip: Use guaranteed loan financing or grant funding for renewable energy systems or to make energy efficiency improvements.

 

National Credit Union Administration Community Development Revolving Loan Fund

Deadline: July 1, 2024

Tourism Tip: Use loans and technical assistance grants to help your credit union support the communities and tourism enterprises they operate.

 

Summerlee Foundation Animal Protection Fund

Deadline: LOI July 1, 2024

Tourism Tip: Use funds to provide aid for animals at risk, with programs like animal sanctuary facilities, advocacy/educational campaigns and ethical research protecting North American wildlife, including big cats, bears and coyotes.

 

Bess Spiva Timmons Foundation

Deadline: July 1, 2024

Tourism Tip: Use the funds for the arts and programs to benefit minority groups, social services and ecology.

 

NPS Historic Preservation Training Center Facility Management and Historic Preservation Emerging Professional Engagement

Deadline: July 3, 2024

Tourism Tip: Use funds to support and stimulate preservation trades and project work on NPS cultural resources.


Community Facilities Technical Assistance and Training Grant Program

Deadline: July 3, 2024

Tourism Tip: Provide hands-on support or training to rural communities to build or improve community facilities. 


USDA: Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged and Veteran Farmers and Ranchers 

Deadline: July 5, 2024

Tourism Tip: Use to assist underserved farmers and ranchers, military veteran farmers and ranchers and beginning farmers and ranchers to participate in the full range of agricultural, forestry and related programs USDA offers.

 

Preservation and Reinvestment Initiative for Community Enhancement (PRICE) Competition

Deadline: July 10, 2024

Tourism Tip: Use funds to build artist housing with studio and gallery space to sell.

 

NEA Grants for Arts – Part II

Deadline: July 11, 2024

Tourism Tip: Use the funds to assist with art projects that tell the story of your place and culture.


Northeast Forests and Rivers Fund 2024 Request for Proposals

Deadline: July 11, 2024

Tourism Tip: NFWF is soliciting proposals for the Northeast Forests and Rivers Fund to restore and sustain healthy rivers, forests and grasslands that provide habitat for diverse fish and wildlife populations. 


National Forest Foundation’s Collaborative Capacity Program for Forests & Communities

Deadline: July 11, 2024

Tourism Tip: Support collaboration-based activities to benefit forests and grasslands currently managed by the US Forest Service through the National Forest System.

 

NPS Cultural Resources Management Services

Deadline: July 15, 2024

Tourism Tip: Partner with the NPS to conduct various activities, including, but not limited to, studies outlined in the NPS Cultural Resource Management Guidelines.

 

US HUD: Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH)

Deadline: July 16, 2024

Tourism Tip: Use funds to develop viable communities, including creating decent housing, suitable living environments, and economic opportunities.

 

NPS Cultural Resources Management Services

Deadline: July 17, 2024

Tourism Tip: NPS funds are available to work with partners to collaboratively conduct various activities outlined in NPS-28: Cultural Resource Management Guideline.

 

HHS/OCS: Community Economic Development Program

Deadline: July 17, 2024

Tourism Tip: Create new employment opportunities through sustainable business development, including agricultural initiatives and environmental enterprises.


NDN Collective Inc., Self Determination Grants

Deadline: July 17, 2024

Tourism Tip: Use to support community-driven sustainable solutions in the three NDN Collective’s core strategies to Defend, Develop and Decolonize. Climate justice, clean energy initiatives and access to clean water, land and air are priorities.


VIA Art Fund Artistic Production Grants

Deadline: July 18, 2024

Tourism Tip: Awards to individual artists, nonprofit organizations or institutions to support new artistic commissions outside museum or gallery walls, within the public realm or in nontraditional exhibition environments.

  

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation: Southeast Aquatics 2024

Deadline: July 18, 2024

Tourism Tip: NFWF seeks proposals for projects that voluntarily restore and sustain healthy forests, rivers and streams and riparian conditions through technical assistance in the southeastern United States and Texas.

 

O'Reilly Automotive Foundation Inc.

Deadline: July 31, 2024

Tourism Tip: In communities with O’Reilly Auto Parts companies, create a project that addresses economic stability in your tourism programs.

 

NEA Our Town Grants

Deadline: August 1, 2024

Tourism Tip: Develop a placemaking project that integrates arts, culture and design activities to strengthen communities over the long term. 


John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation 100&Change Challenge

($100 million award)

Deadline: August 15, 2024

Tourism Tip: Describe an urgent, significant problem and propose a bold and lasting solution.


NPS History of Equal Rights Grant Program

Deadline: August 21, 2024

Tourism Tip: Identify historic sites related to the struggle to achieve equal rights that need architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation plans or physical preservation of structures.


Yamaha Outdoor Access Initiative

Deadline: September 30, 2024

Tourism Tip: Promote safe, responsible use of off-highway vehicles. Use for trail development and maintenance, signage, or protecting environmentally sensitive areas from illegal or inadvertent off-highway vehicle use.


America Walks: Community Change Grants  

Deadline: October 17, 2024

Tourism Tip: Use funds to create change and walking opportunities within your community.

 

NDN Collective Community Action Fund

Deadline: October 31, 2024

Tourism Tip: Support climate disaster response efforts to climate disasters such as flooding, fires and earthquakes.

 

Western SARE Professional Development Program

Deadline: November 1, 2024

Tourism Tip: Engage professionals to conduct educational programs and activities that incorporate environmental, economic and social dimensions of agriculture. 

 

Western SARE Local Education and Demonstration (LED) 

Deadline: November 6, 2024

Tourism Tip: Use funds to demonstrate a project for further development in a tourism-based business.


FELLOWSHIPS


NDN Changemaker Fellowship

Deadline: November 1, 2024

Tourism Tip: Two-year fellowship designed to invest ($150,000 USD) in the visions, leadership and personal and professional development of Indigenous Changemakers working in their communities.



Ongoing and Rolling Deadlines

Honor the Earth for Building Resilience

Deadline: Ongoing

Tourism Tip: Utilize Indigenous wisdom and traditional methods to identify and implement sustainable local food production systems.


Vadon Foundation

Deadline: Rolling

Tourism Tip:  This program supports innovative community-based initiatives that perpetually sustain healthy, thriving indigenous nations. 


Visit AIANTA’s Cultural Tourism Funding Opportunities webpage for funders with ongoing and rolling deadlines we have previously listed.

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