Tourism Development
Grant and Funding Sources
Tourism and the Arts Applications Now Open
The Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Virginia Tourism Corporation have created a special grant program to help Virginia arts organizations, working in partnership with the local tourism industry, with direct expenses for tourism promotion efforts. Learn more here.
Tourism Funding Assistance Request Form
The Virginia Tourism Corporation has access to databases containing grant and foundation funding opportunities. The Tourism Development Team offers assistance for identifying tourism funding options. Please fill out the Tourism Funding Assistance Request Form for tourism related projects for which you are seeking funding. Send the completed form to Hollis Sullivan at hsullivan@virginia.org. Click here for the Tourism Funding Assistance Request Form in PDF format. Click here for the Tourism Funding Assistance Request Form in Word format.
Marketing Leverage Program
The opening of the next round of applications will be announced in mid-Fall 2008. Click here for more information.
Services to the Field Virginia Commission for the Arts http://www.arts.state.va.us/grants/infrastructure/support_localarts.html
To support the work of local arts agencies and other organizations that provide services to artists and arts organizations, that focus on the development of the arts as a whole in a community or region, and that work to integrate the arts more fully into the community or region.
VECTEC/Virginia Tobacco Commission e-Commerce grant information http://www.tic.virginia.gov/ or http://www.vectec.org . Click here for more information about the Southside Business Assistance Grants. Click here for more information about the Southwest Business Assistance Grants.
Ninth District Development Financing, Inc. http://www.nddf.org/
Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/safetealu/
USDA Rural Information Center Guide to Funding Sources http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ricpubs/funding/fundguide.html
Virginia’s Tobacco Region Tourism Development Loan Program http://www.dba.state.va.us/financing/programs/ttourism.asp
The Center for Community Development, Inc. http://www.ccdi-va.net/
The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance http://12.46.245.173/cfda/cfda.html
Southwest Virginia Community Development Financing, Inc. http://www.businesstart.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/
Office of Community Capacity Building http://www.dhcd.virginia.gov
Natural Capital Investment Fund http://www.ncifund.org
Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority http://www.vaceda.org
Virginia Community Capital http://www.vacommunitycapital.org
Virginia Small Business Financing Authority http://www.dba.virginia.gov/financing
Business Development Assistance http://www.vastartup.org