Filipino individuals, as well as civil society organizations, indigenous peoples’ organizations/groups, local government units, government agencies, state universities/colleges, and public schools, are all encouraged to apply.
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), led by its chairman, National Artist Virgilio S. Almario, executive director, Rico S. Pableo Jr., and deputy executive director, Marichu G. Tellano, continues to fulfill its mandate of preserving, developing and promoting of Philippine arts and culture by giving grants to arts and cultural projects.
Encouraging artistic creation and empowering the artists and cultural workers, the national agency for arts and culture is now accepting proposals for projects to be implemented in 2020. It is also looking for implementing partners of projects which have been conceptualized by the agency.
Projects are categorized into Arts; Heritage; Cultural Dissemination; and Cultural Communities and Traditional Arts. Project briefs, as well as guidelines and requirements, can be viewed and downloaded at the NCCA Website.
Filipino individuals, as well as civil society organizations, indigenous peoples’ organizations/groups, local government units, government agencies, state universities/colleges, and public schools, are all encouraged to apply.
The NCCA Competitive Grants is anchored on its vision: Filipino culture as the wellspring of national and global well-being (Ang kalinangang Filipino ay bukal ng kagalingang pambansa at pandaigdig) and aligned with the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2017-2022: Chapter 7 on Culture (Promoting Philippine Culture and Values).
The deadline for submissions of letters of intent and proposals is on July 31, 2019. It must be submitted to the Planning, Policy Formulation and Programming Division (PPFPD) led by its division chief, BernanCorpuz, at Room 5-B, fifth floor, NCCA Building, 633 General Luna Street, Intramuros, Manila.
Guidelines and Project Proposal forms may be downloaded from http://bit.ly/NCCA2020Grants and http://bit.ly/NCCAProjectProposalForm respectively. Proposals may also be submitted via email arts@ncca.gov.ph, heritage@ncca.gov.ph, dissemination@ncca.gov.ph, and traditional_arts@ncca.gov.ph.
For inquiries on the NCCA Grants Programs, contact Mr. Bernan Joseph Corpuz, chief of the Policy/Plan Formulation and Programming Division (P/PFPD) through the following: direct line 522-2084, trunkline no. 527-2192, and email address pmd@ncca.gov.ph, grants@ncca.gov.ph, or info@ncca.gov.ph.
For questions on this press release please contact Mr. Rene S. Napeñas, Head of the NCCA Public Affairs and Information Section through numbers 527-2192 loc 625, or email your queries to ncca.paio@gmail.com.
