Funding Opportunity: NEA RESEARCH LABS
NEA RESEARCH LABS
URL: https://www.arts.gov/grants-organizations/nea-research-labs?utm
OBJECTIVES:
The National Endowment for the Arts’ five-year research agenda aims to build public knowledge about the arts’ contributions to individuals and society. Through NEA Research Labs, we extend this agenda and its impact by cultivating a series of transdisciplinary research partnerships, grounded in the social and behavioral sciences, to produce and report empirical insights about the arts for the benefit of arts and also for non-arts sectors such as healthcare, education, and business or management. Institutions of higher education and/or nonprofit research and policy organizations may submit applications to be NEA Research Labs.
NEA Research Labs will define their own related agendas, conduct project activities to implement that agenda, and prepare reports that will contribute substantively to a wider understanding of one of three areas of special interest to the Arts Endowment:
The Arts, Health, and Social/Emotional Well-Being
Therapeutic Approaches and Benefits
Non-Therapeutic Approaches and Benefits
The Arts, Creativity, Cognition, and Learning
The Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation
NEA Research Labs serve as “hubs” or centers of excellence in the domain of interest. Each NEA Research Lab will develop a pipeline of projects or products, including a website, while conducting at least one major study. In addition, NEA Research Labs also may be required to provide ad hoc analyses or fulfill information requests from the Arts Endowment concerning the research agenda. Such requests will not involve new data collection and will take place only during the Arts Endowment’s period of performance.
FUNDING INFORMATION: Up to $100,000
ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS:
For projects that involve multiple organizations, one organization that meets the eligibility requirements below must act as the official applicant, submit the application, and assume full responsibility for the grant. Partnering organizations are not required to meet the same eligibility requirements as the official applicant organization.
To be eligible, the official applicant organization must:
- Meet the National Endowment for the Arts’ “Legal Requirements,” including nonprofit, tax-exempt status at the time of application. (All organizations must apply directly on their own behalf. Applications through a fiscal sponsor/agent are not allowed. See more information on fiscal sponsors/agents.)
- Have three consecutive years of operating history prior to the application deadline.
- Have submitted acceptable Final Report packages by the due date(s) for all National Endowment for the Arts award(s) previously received.
INTERNAL SELECTION PROCESS:
There is not an institutional limit on applications to this opportunity as long as all applications are distinct. As a result there is no internal submission process coordinated by the office of research.
DEADLINES:
Sponsor Deadline: Monday, March 30, 2020