Funding Opportunities

Program Solicitation: Design for Accessibility
The purpose of this Program Solicitation is to select an organization to create a website that integrates new and existing cultural accessibility resources. This will feature updated information previously contained in the Design for Accessibility: A Cultural Administrator's Guide and Accessibility Planning and Resource Guide for Cultural Administrators publications, as well as other relevant cultural accessibility resources.

Statewide Forums on Careers in the Arts for Individuals with Disabilities
The Arts Endowment plans to award a single award of up to $50,000 to an organization to 1) manage and support a minimum of two Statewide Forums on Careers in the Arts for Individuals with Disabilities in states that have not yet convened such a forum, and 2) conduct a minimum of four follow-up activities in states that have convened forums.

National Arts and Disability Center
A resource, information and training center dedicated to promoting the full inclusion of persons with disabilities into the visual-, performing-, literary-, and media-arts communities.

2004 Report on Community Development Block Grants (PDF) [This PDF contains links to non-federal websites]
This is the 2000-2001 updated version of our last report that we developed to help encourage and assist arts organizations in obtaining federal financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for structural and programmatic improvements that make arts programs and activities more accessible to disabled people.

The Foundation Center  
The Foundation Center maintains a comprehensive database of U.S. grant makers and their grants or funding opportunities.  The Center also provides research, education, and training programs designed to advance philanthropy at every level. 

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