Deadline: 30-Jun-2025
The National Recording Preservation Foundation (NRPF) is pleased to invite proposals for its preservation grants program.
This cycle of NRPF preservation grants will support the preservation of unique and at-risk audio collections. Grants awarded under this call are intended to support basic activites to preserve audio collections including inventory, condition assessment, storage, description, and digitization or to build capacity to care for and preserve audio materials amongst collection stewards.
NRPF grants are available to non-profit archives, libraries, museums, universities and other entities engaged in the preservation of audio materials of cultural or historical importance. Applicant organizations should be located within the United States, its territories, or sovereign states and nations associated with or within the United States.
Funding Information
- Amount: $5,000 to $10,000 per grant
- Duration: 6-12 months
Eligible Activities
- Proposals May Request Support for these types of Activities:
- Contracting a qualified vendor to digitize an audio collection for preservation
- Hiring a qualified consultant to conduct a preservation assessment of an audio collection, which will result in a written preservation plan
- Implementing planned preservation actions, including re-housing, inventorying, environmental monitoring, or other basic preservation activities (note that due to the degradation and obsolescence of physical audio media, their priority is to support the digitization or other recovery and preservation of audio signal, over the storage of physical assets)
- Inventorying and assessing collections to identify media types, condition, content, and prioritize preservation actions
- Planning and conducting workshops that increase knowledge and capacity for collections stewards to preserve, manage, or digitize audio collections, whether physical or digital (may include professional development for regular staff)
Ineligible Activities
- Projects that do not focus primarily on audio collections
- Acquisition of collections
- Conservation or restoration of individual items
- While a portion of funds may be used to offset staff salary, a grant may not be used solely to pay or supplement a single staff member’s salary
Eligibility Criteria
- Libraries, archives, museums, and non-profit organizations with the mission to collect and preserve cultural heritage materials are eligible to apply.
- In rare cases, NRPF may offer grants to entities that are not bona fide non-profit organizations, in cases when collections are of exceptional cultural and historical significance. In most such cases, however, the Foundation would request that applicants seek a fiscal sponsor that is a non-profit entity.
Ineligibility Criteria
- This call for proposals does not offer grants to individuals.
For more information, visit NRPF.