Deadline: 12-Jan-23
This notice solicits applications for the Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions program from the NEH Division of Preservation and Access.
Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized institutions — such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, cultural organizations, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities — improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections. These may include special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine art objects, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, historical objects, and digital materials.
The program encourages applications from small and mid-sized institutions that have never received an NEH grant as well as minority serving institutions: community colleges, HispanicServing Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Tribal Colleges and Universities, and Native American tribes and Native Alaskan and Native Hawaiian organizations with significant humanities collections. Furthermore, NEH encourages organizations or collections that represent the contributions of historically excluded communities.
Federally Declared Disaster Areas
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If your organization is in an area where the federal government declared a disaster or major emergency, you may request funding for the following activities:
- Disaster response, recovery, and mitigation for your humanities collections
- Conservation treatment of damaged collections
- Temporary storage and relocation
- Purchase of cleaning supplies and equipment
- The reformatting of impacted collections as a preservation methodology.
Funding Information
- Maximum award amount $10,000.
Eligibility Criteria
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To be eligible to apply, you must be established in the United States or its jurisdictions as one of the following organization types:
- A nonprofit organization recognized as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code
- An accredited institution of higher education (public or nonprofit)
- A state or local government or one of their agencies
- A federally recognized Native American Tribal government.
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In addition, you must demonstrate that you:
- Care for and have custody of and/or responsibility for the humanities collections that are the focus of the application;
- Have at least one staff member or the full-time equivalent, whether paid or unpaid; and
- Make your collections open and available for the purpose of education, research, and/or public programming.
- If you are requesting funds for disaster relief activities, you must be in a federally declared disaster area.
For more information, visit NEH.
For more information, visit https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/preservation-assistance-grants-smaller-institutions