NEH Preservation Assistance Grants

Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions

Guidelines now available

The National Endowment for the Humanities' Division of Preservation
and Access has offered Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller
Institutions for more than a decade.  These grants help small and
mid-sized cultural heritage institutions such as libraries, museums,
historical societies, archival repositories, town and county records
offices, and colleges and universities improve their ability to
preserve and care for their humanities collections.  Awards of up to
$6,000 support preservation related collection assessments,
consultations, purchase of preservation supplies and equipment,
training and workshops, and institutional and collaborative disaster
and emergency planning.  Preservation Assistance Grants also support
assessments of digital collections and education and training in
standards and best practices for digital preservation, and the care
and handling of collections during digitization.  NEH does not fund
digitization or the development of digital programs in this grant
category.

All applications to the NEH must be submitted through Grants.gov.
See the application guidelines for details.

The 2016 guidelines for Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller
Institutions are available at

    <URL:http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/preservation-assistance-grants-smaller-institutions>

You will also find sample project descriptions, sample narratives,
and a list of frequently asked questions.

The deadline for applications is May 3, 2016.

See our feature article of PAG awards across the country, up on our
Web site:

    <URL:http://www.neh.gov/divisions/preservation/featured-project/preservation-assistance-grants-smaller-institutions-guidelines-available>

Small and mid-sized institutions that have never received an NEH
grant are encouraged to apply.  We also have a special encouragement
for applications from presidentially designated institutions
(Hispanic-serving institutions, Historically Black Colleges and
Universities, and Tribal Colleges and Universities), and from Native
American tribes with significant humanities collections.

This year, NEH is offering some special encouragements to address
issues facing small institutions and the preservation field.   To
provide practical experience to emerging preservation professionals,
we encourage consultants to work as mentors with advanced students
or recent graduates from preservation programs who may assist in
conducting preservation assessments, addressing specific
preservation issues, and/or training of staff at the applicant
institution.  To employ environment-friendly practices and limit
travel costs, applicants are encouraged, when possible, to secure
the services of local or regional consultants.  We also encourage
consultants to consider preventive conservation strategies that
pragmatically balance effectiveness, cost, and environmental impact.

And to address the risk to cultural heritage materials from natural
disasters, theft, looting, civil unrest, and other types of
destruction, NEH encourages applicants to engage in disaster
planning and emergency preparedness through development of disaster
plans and working collaboratively with local institutions for
training in disaster preparedness and emergency response.

For more information, contact the staff of NEH's Division of
Preservation and Access at 202-606-8570 and preservation<-at->neh<.>gov

Mary E. Downs, Ph.D.
Senior Program Officer
Division of Preservation and Access
National Endowment for the Humanities
400 7th St. SW
Washington DC 20506
202-606-8456


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