The Arts & the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Deadline Extension

The Arts & the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act application deadline has been extended to April 6, 2009 at 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time. The deadline has been extended due to technical issues, beyond the agency's control, with Grants.gov, the federal government's online application system. Applicants who qualify for this extension will not use Grants.gov to submit their applications. They will email their Grants.gov application package directly to the Arts Endowment according to the instructions below. If you have already successfully submitted an application, please do not submit it again.

This extension applies only to organizations that attempted to submit their application to Grants.gov by the April 2 deadline and can document that they were unsuccessful due to technical issues with Grants.gov.

Applications under this deadline extension must be submitted via email to the appropriate address below by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time on April 6, 2009. Use the email address for the discipline that is most relevant to your project. This should be the same discipline that you selected for the "Project/Field" designation on the NEA Supplemental Information Form. Email your application only to the one below that is specific to your application. Do not copy it to any other NEA email address.

Your email cannot exceed 5 MB. If your email exceeds 5 MB, it will be rejected and the rejection notice may take several days to reach you. To keep your email to a manageable size, be sure to convert your non-form documents into PDF (portable document format) files in line with the guidance in The Arts & the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act guidelines. Do not submit PDFs of your electronic documents that have been created by scanning.

The text of your email must include documentation that a technical problem occurred with the Grants.gov system and that this problem prevented you from submitting your application by the April 2 deadline date. This documentation must include one or more of the following:

• The Grants.gov Support Desk Case Number that you obtained to document the problems you experienced with Grants.gov.
• A Grants.gov Tracking Number.
• The text of the Submission Validation Receipt Email from Grants.gov stating that the Grants.gov system rejected your application.
• An error message that you received while trying to submit.

Alternatively, the last two items may be submitted as attachments to the email.

Attach to the email:

• The completed Grants.gov application package for Funding Opportunity Number 2009NEA01ARRA60. The completed package should include all required attachments. Do not submit these separately or in addition to the package.

• If available and not in the text of your email:
  • The Submission Validation Receipt Email from Grants.gov stating that the Grants.gov system rejected your application.
  • An error message that you received while trying to submit.

By sending this email, you are certifying that your organization's application is true and correct to the best of your knowledge and that you are in compliance with relevant federal requirements that can be found in the Assurance of Compliance section of The Arts & the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act guidelines.

We will accept your application if we can confirm that a technical problem occurred with the Grants.gov system and that that problem prevented you from submitting your application by the April 2 deadline date.

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Washington, DC 20506