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 http://www.heritagepreservation.org/CAP/index.html Conservation Assessment Program December 1, 2008 Program Contact: Kate Marks, (202) 233-0800; E-mail: kmarks@heritagepreservation.org INSTITUTE FOR MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES http://www.imls.gov Connecting to Collections Bookshelf April 30 Program Overview: IMLS, in cooperation with the American Association of State and Local History (AASLH), is offering 2,000 free copies of the Connecting to Collections Bookshelf, a core set of books, DVDs, online resources, and an annotated bibliography that are essential for the care of collections. The IMLS Bookshelf will be awarded only during the application period, with recipients announced in July 2008. Instructions, qualifications, and the content of the IMLS Bookshelf are available online at www.aaslh.org/Bookshelf Save America's Treasures May 20 (This is NOT a postmark deadline.) Program Overview: Save America’s Treasures makes critical investments in the preservation of our nation’s most significant and endangered cultural treasures, which illustrate, interpret, and embody the great events, ideas, and individuals that contribute to America’s history and culture. Administered by the National Park Service in collaboration with the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, Save America’s Treasures involves other federal agency partners, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and IMLS. The National Trust for Historic Preservation has been the program’s principal private partner since its inception. Museums and libraries are encouraged to apply. Visit www.cr.nps.gov/hps/treasures for more information. Program Contact: Christine Henry, Senior Program Officer, (202) 653-4674 E-mail: chenry@imls.gov NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS http://www.nea.gov NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES http://www.neh.gov Challenge Grants May 1 Grant Awards: Matching grant with $1 million maximum awarded. Program Overview: NEH challenge grants help institutions and organizations secure long-term improvements in and support for their humanities programs and resources. Awards are made to museums, public libraries, colleges, research institutions, historical societies and historic sites, public television and radio stations, universities, scholarly associations, state humanities councils, and other nonprofit entities. Program Contact: Office of Challenge Grants Phone: (202) 606-8309 Preservation Assistance: Grants for Smaller Institutions May 15 Grant Award: Outright grants up to $6,000 Program Overview: Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized institutions, such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, arts and cultural organizations, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities, improve their ability to preserve and care for their 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 arts, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, and historical objects. Program Contact: Division of Preservation and Access Phone: (202) 606-8570 E-mail: preservation@neh.gov Preservation and Access Education and Training Grants July 1 Grant Awards: Two-year period with awards from $50,000 - $525,000 Program Overview: These grants support national or regional (multi-state) education and training programs on the care and management of, and the creation of intellectual access to, library, archival, and material culture collections. Program Contact: Division of Preservation and Access Phone: (202) 606-8570 E-mail: preservation@neh.gov Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections & Resources July 15 Grant Award: Two-year period with awards from $50,000 - $350,000 Program Overview: This grant program — Humanities Collections and Resources — combines support for activities that were funded previously through two separate grant categories – Preserving and Creating Access to Humanities Collections and Reference Materials. Digital technology now makes possible unified access to geographically dispersed collections and the integration of reference materials with related sources and tools. Program Contact: Division of Preservation and Access Phone: (202) 606-8570 E-mail: preservation@neh.gov  |
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