“The National Endowment for the Arts has released guidelines for arts organizations craving a share of the $75 million in federal stimulus funding earmarked for the arts from the so-called CARES Act (the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act) estimated to cost $2.2 trillion,” writes Chris Jones in Wednesday’s (4/8) Chicago Tribune. “A wide variety of non-profit organizations can apply for a share of the money … including ‘arts organizations, local arts agencies, statewide assemblies of local arts agencies, arts service organizations’ … But all applicants … must be previous NEA award recipients from the past four years, presumably making it faster for the agency to verify and validate those who apply. In the Chicago area, those recipients include … the American Indian Center, Inc., the Chicago Architecture Foundation [and] Chicago Sinfonietta…. The NEA also said it intends to give preference to awards that ‘will impact a broad constituency.’ … The NEA’s applicant portal will be open between April 27 and May 4, with awards anticipated in June. Separately, the National Endowment for the Humanities said it … has received its $75 million in ‘supplemental funding to assist cultural institutions and humanists affected by the coronavirus pandemic,’ also as part of the CARES Act.”
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