Deadlines: Submit your Intent to Apply by January 23, 2025; final applications due by January 30, 2025
The National Endowment for the Arts Big Read is a program that awards grants ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 to support community reading programs designed around a single NEA Big Read book.
An initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in partnership with Arts Midwest, the NEA Big Read broadens our understanding of ourselves and our neighbors through the power of a shared reading experience. The goal of this program is to inspire meaningful conversations, celebrate local creativity, elevate a wide variety of voices and perspectives, and build stronger connections in each community.
In addition to funding for purchasing the books themselves, each grant recipient is provided with resources to help them succeed. That includes outreach materials to gather people from all walks of life and training on how to work with local partners, how to develop public relations strategies, and how to lead meaningful book discussions.
NEA Big Read programs vary and can be as short as a week or as long as several months, held between September 2025 and June 2026. Programming for the 2025-2026 grant cycle will center around the theme OUR NATURE: How Our Physical Environment Can Lead Us to Seek Hope, Courage, and Connection. The 22 books that applicants can choose from all explore our relationship with the physical environment. Applicants will facilitate book discussions, writing workshops, and creative programming activities that explore this theme and celebrate the unique aspects of their communities.
U.S. libraries, nonprofit arts organizations, universities, community service organizations, museums, school districts, and tribal governments are all encouraged to apply. Applicants will need to have a UEI number on file by April 2025. Apply for a free UEI at sam.gov.
For more information about the NEA Big Read application visit the page: https://artsmidwest.org/get-support/nea-big-read.
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