The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access is accepting applications for the Preservation and Access Education and Training program.
Donor Name: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/16/2023
Size of the Grant: $350,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
This program supports projects that develop and implement educational programs for professionals who preserve and provide access to humanities collections. Such materials include but are not limited to paper-based, photographic, archaeological, ethnographic, artistic, audiovisual, digitized, and born-digital collections. Advancing long-term access to these materials for scholars, students, and the public requires skilled professionals from varied backgrounds and communities working in organizations large and small.
NEH makes awards in this program to organizations that offer national, regional, or statewide education and training programs across the pedagogical landscape for current or emerging professionals. Projects may be at any stage, from early curriculum development to advanced implementation, and projects may include partnerships with academic or non-academic institutions.
Project activities must support one or a combination of the following programmatic areas:
- field services, networks, or consortia that offer training and educational resources and services to professionals
- continuing education opportunities that provide professionals with extended or specialized training in new or current preservation and access topics
- student and early career programs focused on building skills in preservation and access for cultural heritage collections. Programs may occur at either academic or non-academic institutions, and programs must be for individuals preparing to pursue, attending, or recently graduating from master’s programs. Such master’s programs include, but are not limited to, art conservation, library and information science, archival administration, and museum studies.
To support one or more of these programmatic areas, you may propose activities that include but are not limited to: educational programs, series, and sessions; educational services and resources; residencies, apprenticeships, internships, and mentorships.
Preservation and Access Education and Training applicants are encouraged to address one or more of the following areas of special interest:
- Audiovisual and Digital Heritage: Activities that teach skills meant to address the preservation or access challenges faced by materials at risk of obsolescence.
- Diverse Practitioners: Activities that reach, encourage, or prioritize participation from people with backgrounds and identities that are underrepresented or underserved in the preservation and access field.
- Diverse Collections: Activities that teach culturally appropriate, equitable, inclusive, and community-engaged practices that serve collections from underrepresented communities.
- Emergency Preparedness: Activities that prepare professionals–particularly in areas of the U.S. and its jurisdictions at high risk for sea level rise, extreme weather, flooding, wildfires, or other natural disaster–to mitigate potential hazards and respond to and recover from disasters.
- Environmental Sustainability: Activities that teach techniques that limit collections stewards’ impact on the environment.
- Recent Developments: Activities that teach new or recently updated preservation or access-related standards, methodologies, tools and equipment, or workflows.
- Smaller Organizations: Activities that reach and train staff from smaller libraries, museums, archives, and historical and cultural organizations.
Funding Information
If your program grants graduate degrees in art conservation you may request up to $250,000 in outright funds and up to $100,000 in federal matching funds. If you request the full $350,000, you must submit a budget reflecting total project costs of at least $450,000 ($250,000 in outright funds, $100,000 in federal matching funds, and $100,000 in required cost share for the federal matching funds).
- All other applicants may request up to $350,000 in outright funds, or a combination of outright and matching funds, not to exceed $350,000. This includes direct and indirect costs.
- NEH anticipates awarding approximately $2,700,00 among an estimated 10 recipients.
- NEH will not determine the amount available until Congress makes appropriations for FY 2024.
- NEH will issue awards subject to the availability of appropriated funds. NEH is publishing this notice as a contingency action to ensure that NEH can process applications and issue awards in a timely manner, should sufficient funds become available.
Grant Period: All other applicants may request up to three years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- City or township governments
- County governments
- State governments
- Special district governments
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
