Deadline: 1-Aug-22
The Library of Congress is pleased to announce a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to award grants in support of contemporary ethnographic field research focusing on the cultures and traditions of diverse communities across the United States.
Through a gift from the Mellon Foundation, the Library of Congress will support a multiyear initiative that entails public participation in the creation of archival collections.
The Library seeks to award grants to support contemporary cultural documentation focusing on the culture and traditions of diverse, often underrepresented communities in the U.S. These projects will result in archival collections preserved at the American Folklife Center (AFC).
The major goals of this grant program are to enable communities to document their cultural life and experiences from their own perspectives, while enriching the Library’s holdings with diverse materials featuring creativity and knowledge found at the local level. As such, successful applications will come from individuals closely affiliated with the community they propose to document.
Types of Grant
- Community Collections Grants to Organizations
- Community Collections Grants to Individuals
Funding Information
- The Library of Congress intends to award up to 10 Grants pursuant to this notice of funding opportunity.
- The Library’s intention is to make grant awards of up to $50,000.
Duration: Period of Performance 12 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Community Collections Grants to Organizations: Applicants may be charitable or similar organizations, for federal tax exempt purposes subject to 26 U.S.C 501 c (3) or similar authority, including institutions of higher education, colleges and universities, as well as professional associations and community groups. For-profit applicants are not eligible. Organizations must be U.S.-based. Eligibility extends to all 50 U.S. states, protectorates, territories, and the District of Columbia. Only one entity may receive the funding
- Community Collections Grants to individuals: Eligible applicants must be individuals who are U.S. citizens or Permanent Residents. Eligibility extends to all 50 U.S. states, protectorates, territories, and the District of Columbia. If an individual seeks to apply on behalf of one’s organization (i.e., in an official capacity), the individual must review and submit an application using the NOFO’s for Organizations.
- Other Eligibility Information
- An eligible applicant organization may submit only one application under this announcement.
- Successful applicants cannot reapply in subsequent years for the same project.
- To be eligible, projects must involve new, original cultural documentation of contemporary cultural life and activities from existing communities within the United States. This award is not intended to support research projects undertaken for the completion of university degrees.
- Late, incomplete, or ineligible applications will not be considered for funding under this notice.
- The Library will notify an applicant if their application will not be reviewed due a determination of ineligibility.
- An organization that submits an application may be disqualified if the applicant or any principal has, within the past five years, been subject to a finding of fault or conviction in a Federal or state criminal, civil, or administrative proceeding in connection to the award to or the performance of a Federal grant or contract.
For more information, visit https://www.loc.gov/programs/of-the-people/collect-and-preserve/community-collections-grant-application/?loclr=blogotp
