Deadline: 13 December 2016
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is seeking applications for Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections (SCHC) to help cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting sustainable conservation measures that mitigate deterioration, prolong the useful life of collections, and support institutional resilience: the ability to anticipate and respond to natural and man-made disasters.
Grant Categories
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections offers two kinds of awards:
- Planning grants
To help an institution develop and assess sustainable preventive conservation strategies, grants of up to $40,000 will support planning projects, which may encompass such activities as site visits, risk assessments, planning sessions, monitoring, testing, modeling, project-specific research, and preliminary designs for implementation projects. - Implementation grants
To help an institution implement a preventive conservation project, grants of up to $350,000 are available. Implementation projects must focus on sustainable preservation strategies. Projects should be based on planning that has been specific to the needs of the institution and its collections within the context of its local environment.
Eligibility Criteria
- U.S. nonprofit organizations are eligible, as are state and local governmental agencies and federally recognized Indian tribal governments. Individuals are not eligible to apply.
- NEH generally does not award grants to other federal entities or to applicants whose projects are so closely intertwined with a federal entity that the project takes on characteristics of the federal entity’s own authorized activities. This does not preclude applicants from using grant funds from, or sites and materials controlled by, other federal entities in their projects.
- NEH will not review late, incomplete, or ineligible applications.
How to Apply
All applications to this program must be submitted via Grants.gov.
NEH strongly recommends that you complete or verify your registration at least two weeks before the application deadline, since it takes time to process your registration.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit NEH.