NEA and HUD will offer $175 million for arts and communities.

On Wednesday, July 7, 2010, the National Endowment for the Arts or NEA and the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development or HUD will offer a webinar to discuss $175 million in funding opportunities for the arts and creative sector.

The webinar will discuss two innovative funding opportunities: HUD’s Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program and a joint grant program via HUD and the Department of Transportation or DOT: Sustainable Communities Challenge Grant Program.

According to the press release, this is the first time that HUD and the NEA have co-convened the arts and creative sector on a national level around funding opportunities, and it demonstrates the Obama Administration’s commitment to changing the way the federal government operates by working more collaboratively across federal agencies and making smarter investments

Anyone interested in participating in the webinar should log on to HUD’s website at 3:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, July 7^th, 2010.

This grant program will be extremely competitive and an arduous undertaking for interested communities. All the same, I’ve had lots of good luck with the NEA for my clients – so I always encourage people to give it a try!