NEH grants for sustainable preservation strategies

Just want to alert potential U.S. nonprofit museums, libraries, and
archives about new guidelines and some changes for the Sustaining
Cultural Heritage Collections grant program, offered by the National
Endowment for the Humanities.  Grants will be available to plan and
implement preventive conservation projects in ways that are cost
effective, energy efficient, and environmentally sensitive and that
aim to mitigate greatest risks rather than to meet prescriptive
targets. Preventive conservation measures may encompass managing
relative humidity, temperature, light and pollutants in collection
spaces; providing protective storage enclosures and systems for
collections; and safeguarding collections from theft and from
natural and man-made disasters.

Planning grants of up to $40,000 and implementation grants of up to
$350,000 will be available.

New This Year:  To enhance the outcomes of planning grants and to
encourage incremental improvements in the care of collections,
applicants for planning projects may request up to an additional
$10,000 to carry out one or more recommendations made by the
interdisciplinary planning team during the course of the project.
Such work could help demonstrate the benefits of sustainable
preservation strategies or lead to new information or changes in
conditions that would influence "next steps." For such planning
projects, the maximum award would be $50,000.

The deadline will be December 1, 2011. The new guidelines should be
posted by mid-September, 2011 and will contain a more detailed
description of planning projects and the range of activities that
are eligible for support.  We will send out a second announcement
when the guidelines are posted. Please feel free to contact the
division for more information by emailing preservation<-a t->neh< . >gov or
calling 202-606-8570.

Laura Word
Senior Program Officer
Division of Preservation and Access
National Endowment for the Humanities


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