In June 2022, the City of Lawrence announced it was selected to receive a $150,000 American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to help the arts and culture sector recover from the pandemic. The City will use the grant award to provide subgrants to eligible Lawrence arts and culture non-profit organizations. The application for subgrants is now available on the City’s website: lawrenceks.org/nea-arp-subgrant.
Members of the Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission will serve as the grant review panel for the subgrants. Grant funds can be used to preserve jobs and to help fund operations, facilities, health and safety supplies, and marketing and promotional efforts to encourage attendance and participation.
Only Lawrence-based 501c3 nonprofit organizations with an arts-based mission and programming that is entirely or almost entirely in the arts are eligible to receive funds. Eligible organizations are encouraged to review the full Program Guidelines before beginning the application on the website. The application opens today, July 18, and closes at 11:59 p.m. on August 22.
Please email any questions regarding the application to mhenning@lawrenceks.org. If accommodations are needed due to disability, please contact the ADA Compliance Administor at ekorynta@lawrenceks.org or 785-832-3180. Requests for accommodations must be made by August 15, 2022.
For more information on the NEA’s American Rescue Plan grants, including the full list of local arts agencies funded in this announcement, visit their website: www.arts.gov/COVID-19/the-american-rescue-plan.
Contact: Porter Arneill, Director of Communications and Creative Resources, parneill@lawrenceks.org
