Save America's Treasures grants

The National Park Service in partnership with the President's
Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the National Endowment for
the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the
Institute of Museum and Library Services is seeking applicants for
its Save America's Treasures 2005 grant program. Save America's
Treasures makes critical investments in the preservation of our
nation's most significant cultural treasures. Grants are awarded for
preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant
intellectual and cultural artifacts and nationally significant
historic structures and sites. Grant amounts range from $50,000 to
$1 million to conserve collections, and from $250,000 to $1 million
for historic property and sites projects. All the awards must be
matched 1:1. Complete guidelines, applications and information, as
well as a database of previous Save America Treasure's awardees, can
be found at <URL:http://www2.cr.nps.gov/treasures/index.htm>.
Deadline for applications is 1 February 2005. For general
information contact Kimber Craine kcraine [at] pcah__gov>  at the
President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
<URL:http://www.pcah.gov/SAT2005.htm>   or call 202-682-5661. At the
time of printing of the guidelines, Congress had not completed the
appropriations for the Department of the Interior. Grants cannot be
awarded unless funds are appropriated.

For Additional Information, applicants can address questions to and
obtain electronic versions of application material from these
agencies.

For Collections Projects

    National Endowment for the Arts
    202-682-5457
    mclaughm [at] arts__gov
    <URL:http://www.arts.gov>

    National Endowment for the Humanities
    202-606-8570
    bpaulson [at] neh__gov
    <URL:http://www.neh.gov>

    Institute of Museum and Library Services
    202-606-4641
    sshwartzman [at] imls__gov
    <URL:http://www.imls.gov>

For Historic Property Projects

    National Park Service
    202-513-7270, ext. 6
    nps_treasures [at] nps__gov
    <URL:http://www2.cr.nps.gov/treasures>


                                  ***
                  Conservation DistList Instance 18:23
                 Distributed: Monday, November 22, 2004
                       Message Id: cdl-18-23-018
                                  ***