Partnership Alliance Marketing
Grant and Funding Sources
American Civil War Sesquicentennial Tourism Marketing Program
Applications are due on March 15, 2012.
The Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission (the Commission) and the Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC) have created a special American Civil War Sesquicentennial Tourism Marketing Program. This program will help Virginia community organizations, working in partnership with the local tourism industry, in promoting the observance of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War.
For more information click here http://www.vatc.org/PAM/STMprog.asp.
Virginia Tourism Corporation Marketing Leverage Program
The next round of applications will open in Spring 2012.
If you would like to be added to the Grants email notification list, please contact awiggins@virginia.org.
The Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC) Marketing Leverage Program is designed to stimulate new tourism marketing programs through the creation of tourism partnerships and to extend the “Virginia is for Lovers” campaign. The objective of this program is to leverage limited marketing dollars, resulting in increased visitor spending, revenue, and jobs.
New to this application cycle are revisions to the Performance Measure section. The Virginia Tourism Corporation must validate our Return on Investment of the VTC Marketing Leverage Program. This will become increasingly important as the matching fund program grows. This is also very important to you, your stakeholders, and to the outcomes of your project. To assist you with defining your performance measures, VTC is now requiring you to complete the Research and Performance Measure Plan. Please refer to Pages 7 - 9 of the application for more information.
Complete information can be found at http://www.vatc.org/PAM/leverageprog.asp.
Tourism and the Arts Marketing Program
Virginia Tourism and the Arts Grant Program
The next round of applications will open in Spring 2012.
Virginia’s arts organizations, museums and festivals represent some of the major attractions that entice tourists to visit our state. The Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Virginia Tourism Corporation have created a special grant program to help Virginia arts organizations with direct expenses related to tourism promotion efforts. The Virginia Tourism and the Arts Program provides up to $5,000 matching grants to partnerships headed by Virginia Commission for the Arts General Operating Support grantees for marketing initiatives related to tourism.
The Virginia Tourism and the Arts Program grant application is available on the Virginia Commission for the Arts website at http://www.arts.virginia.gov/forms/Tourism/index.html.
If you have questions regarding the application process, please contact Foster Billingsley, Deputy Director at (804) 225-3132 or foster.billingsley@arts.virginia.gov.
Applications for the National Scenic Byways Program must be completed at: http://www.bywaysonline.org/grants/
Grants Enhance Public Hiking Trails
American Hiking Society: National Trails Fund (http://www.americanhiking.org/Our-Work/National-Trails-Fund/)
The National Trails Fund, sponsored by American Hiking Society (AHS), provides funding to grassroots nonprofit organizations throughout the country working toward establishing, protecting, and maintaining foot trails in America. The Fund’s grants, ranging from $500 to $5,000, help give local groups the resources they need to secure access, volunteers, tools, and materials to protect America's public trails. The following types of grants will be considered for the 2012 program: projects that have hikers as the primary constituency; projects that secure trail lands, including acquisition of trails and trail corridors and the costs associated with acquiring conservation easements; projects that will result in substantial ease of access, improved hiker safety, or avoidance of environmental damage; and projects that promote constituency building surrounding specific trail projects. Applying organizations must be AHS Alliance Members. The application deadline is December 15, 2011. Visit the American Hiking Society website for application guidelines as well as information on becoming an AHS Member.
Additional Funding Resources
- Virginia Community Capital http://www.vacommunitycapital.org
- Virginia Office of Community Capacity Building Non-Profit Funding Search Request http://www.dhcd.virginia.gov/CommunityCapacityBuilding/PDFs/FundingRequestForm.pdf
- Virginia Small Business Financing Authority http://www.dba.state.va.us/financing_business.shtml
- Virginia Enterprise Zone www.dhcd.virginia.gov/EZones
- Ninth District Development Financing, Inc. http://www.nddf.org/
- Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority http://www.vaceda.org
- Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/safetealu/
- Center for Community Development, Inc. http://www.ccdi-va.net
- USDA Rural Information Center Guide to Funding Sources http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ricpubs/funding/fundguide.htm
- Natural Capital Investment Fund http://www.ncifund.org
- National Park Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/
- National Geographic Conservation Trust Grants http://www.nationalgeographic.com/research/grant/rg2.html
- Institute of Museum and Library Services http://www.aaslh.org/Bookshelf/
- Resource for federal government grants http://www.grants.gov
- Farmers Market Promotion Program http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/FMPP
