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The National Endowment for the Arts announced the nonprofit arts organizations recommended for direct funding through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. These 855 organizations<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u2014located in every state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico\u2014will receive a total of $44.5 million in nonmatching funds to support staff salaries, fees for artists or contractual personnel, and facilities costs. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Grants of $50,000 are offered to 846 organizations while nine local arts agencies will receive $250,000 each to further award to arts organizations in their area. The NEA received more than 3,100 eligible applications requesting $157 million for the $45 million available in direct assistance. To review the applications, the agency used more than 200 application readers and panelists to review and score each application using the published review criteria. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cAll of us at the National Endowment for the Arts are keenly aware that arts organizations across the country are hurting, struggling, and trying to survive and that our supply of funding does not come close to meeting the demand for assistance,\u201d said Arts Endowment Chairman Mary Anne Carter. \u201cThat said, I am enormously proud of the over-and-above efforts of the Arts Endowment staff to swiftly and professionally manage such a large amount of additional work in a relatively short period of time on behalf of the American public.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n