Deadline: 15 May 2019
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is seeking applications for its Preservation and Access Education and Training Grants to support the development of knowledge and skills among professionals responsible for preserving and establishing access to humanities collections.
Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture collections, electronic records, and digital objects. The challenge of preserving and making accessible such large and diverse holdings is enormous, and the need for knowledgeable staff is significant and ongoing.
Preservation and Access Education and Training grants are awarded to organizations that offer national, regional, or statewide education and training programs across the pedagogical landscape and at all stages of development. Grants aim to help the staff of cultural institutions, large and small, obtain the knowledge and skills needed to serve as effective stewards of humanities collections. Grants support projects that prepare the next generation of preservation professionals, as well as projects that introduce heritage practitioners to new information and advances in preservation and access practices.
Award Information
The maximum award is $350,000, for a period of performance of up to three years
Activities
Preservation and Access Education and Training grants support activities such as these:
- Training for staff at cultural heritage institutions, offered by preservation field services, networks, and consortia, especially programs and activities targeting the needs of smaller libraries, museums, archives, and other cultural organizations;
- Educational initiatives, student financial aid (tuition remission is an unallowable cost), curriculum development, speaker series, and travel for master’s degree programs in preservation and access-related disciplines such as conservation, library science, museum studies, and archival administration; and
- In-person and online continuing education opportunities such as, but not limited to, workshops, webinars, technical training, and instructional series.
Eligibility Criteria
- U.S. nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, state and local governmental agencies, and federally recognized Native American tribal governments are eligible to apply.
- Eligible organizations include institutions of higher education.
- Individuals and foreign and for-profit entities are not eligible to apply.
- Eligible applicant institutions may submit multiple applications for separate and distinct projects under this announcement.
- Consortia applications are welcome. When two or more eligible institutions or organizations collaborate on a project, one of them must serve as the lead applicant and administer the grant on behalf of the others. If funded, the lead applicant will be programmatically, fiscally, and legally responsible for the award.
- Only preservation field service organizations may apply for support for a postgraduate fellowship.
- Applications must be complete, must observe the specified page limits, and must be received and validated by Grants.gov under the correct funding opportunity number to be considered under this notice.
- 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.
- Late, incomplete, or ineligible applications will not be reviewed.
How to Apply
All organizations must submit their applications via the given website.
For more information, please visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=314321