Public-Private Partnership With Ford, Surdna, Niarchos, Bloomberg, Mellon, and Rockefeller Award Placemaking Grants Totaling $11 Million
ArtPlace America, a public-private partnership that works to position arts and culture as a core sector of comprehensive community planning and development, has announced grants totaling $11 million to twenty-nine creative placemaking projects in nineteen states and two U.S. territories.
Awarded through ArtPlace America's National Creative Placemaking Fund, the grants, which range from $100,000 to $500,000, will support efforts to use the arts and culture to strengthen the social, physical, and economic fabric of local communities. Selected from nearly fourteen hundred proposals, the funded projects are designed to drive change in at least one of ten community planning and development sectors — agriculture and food; economic development; education and youth; environment and energy; health; housing; immigration; public safety; transportation; and workforce development.
A ten-year initiative involving federal agencies, financial institutions, and foundations — including the Barr, Bush, Fisher, Ford, Irvine, Knight, Kresge, McKnight, Mellon, Niarchos, William Penn, Rasmuson, Rockefeller, and Surdna foundations and Bloomberg Philanthropies — the National Creative Placemaking Fund has to date supported 256 creative placemaking projects in 187 communities with a total of $77.7 million in investments...