The National Recording Preservation Foundation (NRPF) is pleased to invite proposals for its 2025 preservation grants program.
Donor Name: National Recording Preservation Foundation (NRPF)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: American Samoa, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of Northern Marian Islands, Guam and U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/30/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
This cycle of NRPF preservation grants will support the preservation of unique and at-risk audio collections. Grants awarded under this call are intended to support basic activities to preserve audio collections — including inventory, condition assessment, storage, description, and digitization — or to build capacity to care for and preserve audio materials amongst collection stewards.
Funding Information
NRPF expects to make two to four awards in amounts ranging from $5,000 to $10,000.
Grant Period
6-12 months.
Eligible Activities
- Contracting a qualified vendor to digitize an audio collection for preservation
- Hiring a qualified consultant to conduct a preservation assessment of an audio collection, which will result in a written preservation plan
- Implementing planned preservation actions, including re-housing, inventorying, environmental monitoring, or other basic preservation activities (note that due to the degradation and obsolescence of physical audio media, the priority is to support the digitization or other recovery and preservation of audio signal, over the storage of physical assets)
- Inventorying and assessing collections to identify media types, condition, content, and prioritize preservation actions
- Planning and conducting workshops that increase knowledge and capacity for collections stewards to preserve, manage, or digitize audio collections, whether physical or digital (may include professional development for regular staff).
Eligibility Criteria
NRPF grants are available to non-profit archives, libraries, museums, universities and other entities engaged in the preservation of audio materials of cultural or historical importance. Applicant organizations should be located within the United States, its territories, or sovereign states and nations associated with or within the United States.
Proposal Evaluation and Selection
Applications will be evaluated on their merits, according to:
- Significance: The cultural and historical importance of the collection, as well as the potential for the proposed work to enhance the preservation of the audio content in the collection.
- Urgency: Extent to which the collection is threatened, whether by organizational capacity, failure of media carriers, or by physical degradation of the media before it may become unplayable or the audio signal becomes unrecoverable
- Capacity: Degree to which an applicant demonstrates the ability to manage the outcomes of a project, including preserving and providing access to digitally reformatted materials, providing access to collections, or disseminating the contents and outcomes of training activities
- Planning: Relevance and feasibility of the proposed preservation activities, including appropriate personnel and a clear, actionable, and completable plan for the proposed work
- Budget: the extent to which the project’s total cost as proposed, when compared to the significance and impact of the work, is reasonable and beneficial.
For more information, visit NRPF.
