PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
The National Endowment for the Arts provides national recognition and support to significant projects of artistic excellence in the visual, literary, media, design, and performing arts, thus preserving and enhancing our Nation's diverse cultural heritage. This mission will be accomplished through grants to nonprofit arts organizations and to individual literary artists in fiscal years (FY) 2002 and 2003. Organizations will be supported through the following categories: 1) Grants to Organizations (aligned with the four agency program goals of Creativity, Organizational Capacity, Access, and Heritage and Preservation); 2) Arts Learning, formerly Education (a fifth program goal); and 3) The Arts on Radio and Television (significant arts programs for national distribution on radio or television). Projects addressing the Access goal will be funded as 45.027 Challenge America Grants beginning in fiscal year 2003. The Endowment also may undertake short-term, targeted funding initiatives in support of a program goal, e.g., Resources for Change: Technology, which addresses Organizational Capacity. Grants to individuals are awarded through Fellowships for Creative Writers, awards to published creative writers and literary translators of exceptional talent.

 ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. CULTURAL AFFAIRS;
- Promotion of the Arts;

 WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- State;
- Local;
- Sponsored Organization;
- Public nonprofit institution/organization;
- Other public institution/organization;
- Individual/Family;
- Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans);
- Private non-profit institution/organization;

 WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Local (includes State-designated Indian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Sponsored organization;
- Public non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Other public institution/organization;
- Individual/Family;
- Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans);