The NEA is cutting the grant program Challenge America which primarily supported small organizations that reached “historically underserved communities that have limited access to the arts relative to geography, ethnicity, economics, and/or disability.”
Challenge America’s $10,000 grants funded a wide range of programs by arts groups across the country, from free or reduced prices for theater tickets in Florida, to an arts program for Native American residents at a nursing facility in North Carolina.
NPR: ‘Chilling effect’: Arts organizations react to end of DEI initiatives from fed agency