Deadline: 15-Mar-21
2021 Preservation Technology and Training Grants (PTT Grants) are intended to create better tools, better materials, and better approaches to conserving buildings, landscapes, sites, and collections. The PTT Grants are administered by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT), the National Park Service’s innovation center for the preservation community.
Activities
The competitive grants program will provide funding to federal agencies, states, tribes, local governments, and non-profit organizations. PTT Grants will support the following activities:
- Innovative research that develops new technologies or adapts existing technologies to preserve cultural resources (typically $20,000);
- Specialized workshops or symposia that identify and address national preservation needs (typically $15,000 to $20,000);
- How-to videos, mobile applications, podcasts, best practices publications, or webinars that disseminate practical preservation methods or provide better tools for preservation practice (typically $5,000 to $15,000).
Funding Information
- Anticipated Federal Funding: $200,000.00;
- Estimated Number of Agreements to be awarded: 8-12;
- An estimated range of $5,000.00 To $20,000.00 of funding is anticipated for each award.
Eligible Applicants
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education;
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education;
- Private institutions of higher education;
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education;
- Others.
Other Eligibility Information
In accordance with 54 U.S.C.305304(c), Preservation grants, eligible applicants may include—
- Federal and non-Federal laboratories;
- accredited museums;
- universities;
- nonprofit organizations;
- System units and offices and Cooperative Park Study Units of the System;
- State Historic Preservation Offices;
- tribal preservation offices; and
- Native Hawaiian organization.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=330890