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 Arts Education and School Improvement Resources for Local and State Leaders -- April 1997 (Updated March 2000)

Appendix A -- PROGRAM AND GRANT INFORMATION RESOURCES

The National Endowment for the Arts'
Cultural Funding: Federal Opportunities

This guide to arts resources across several federal agencies is intended to point individuals and organizations looking for funding for cultural programming to an array of funding opportunities supported by federal dollars at the national, regional, state, and local levels. At the core of this resource are examples of funded cultural programs. Information provided with each example includes:

  • the name and contact information of the organization,
  • a description of the funded activity,
  • the year it was funded and the amount,
  • a description of the federal source of the funds with Web site information, and
  • a "money trail" showing how the dollars made their way from the federal source to the local organization.
  • http://www.arts.gov/federal.html

Federal Register

The Department publishes notices of all competitions for discretionary grants in the Federal Register, issued every weekday by the National Archives and Records Administration. It lists all federal regulations and legal notices including announcements of all federal grant competitions. It is available in most libraries, by subscription from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 20402, (202) 512-1800. The cost is $540.00 annually. Payment may be made by VISA, MasterCard, or Discover. The complete and up-to-date contents of the 1995-97 Federal Register in a searchable database maintained by the Government Printing Office (GPO) is accessible through GPO's menu of Federal Depository Library Gateways or at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/index.html

On the internet, the Education Department's notices in the Federal Register is available at http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/index.html under "Announcements." Department announcements in the Federal Register are also available from the Department's office of Grants and Contracts at http://www.ed.gov/offices/OCFO/gcsindex.html.

Commerce Business Daily

Requests for proposals (RFPs) for all contracts are printed in the Commerce Business Daily issued daily by the U.S. Department of Commerce. It is available in most libraries, by subscription from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government printing Office, Washington, DC, 20402, (202) 512-1800. Department announcements in the Federal Register and Commerce Business Daily are also available from the Department's office of Grants and Contracts at http://www.ed.gov/offices/OCFO/gcsindex.html

Guide to Department Programs

A guide to Department programs is available on the internet at http://web99.ed.gov/GTEP/Program2.nsf

EDInfo Listserv

EDInfo is a free information service that delivers two or three e-mail messages per week from the U.S. Department of Education. To subscribe:

  1. Address an e-mail message to: listproc@inet.ed.gov

  2. Write this (and nothing else) in the message:

    subscribe EDInfo yourfirstname yourlastname

General information about the Department and its programs and initiatives can be obtained by calling 1-800-USA-LEARN, or on the Internet at http://www.ed.gov


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Last Updated -- May 30, 2001 (sf)