The Institute of Museum and Library Services is soliciting applications for its 2024 American Latino Museum Internship and Fellowship Initiative.
Donor Name: Institute of Museum and Library Services
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline: 03/01/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
This initiative is designed to provide opportunities for internships and fellowships at American Latino museums for students enrolled in Institutions of Higher Education, including Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). The initiative will nurture students carrying out studies relating to American Latino life, art, history, and culture.
Projects should involve partnership between Institutions of Higher Education and museums as sites for paid internship and/or fellowship opportunities. Projects may involve cohort-based approaches to internship and fellowship design; incorporate evaluation of institutional and student experience of the program; or support documentation and publication of program design to be shared with the wider professional community.
Goals and Objectives
- Goal 1: Support museum-based undergraduate internship programs designed to advance careers of individuals in the study of American Latino life, art, history, and culture.
- Objective 1.1: Create new museum-based internship programs for undergraduate students pursuing studies relating to American Latino life, art, history, and culture.
- Objective 1.2: Expand and enhance existing museum-based internship programs for undergraduate students pursuing studies relating to American Latino life, art, history, and culture.
- Goal 2: Support museum-based fellowships to increase museum career opportunities for individuals in the study of American Latino life, art, history, and culture.
- Objective 2.1: Create new museum-based fellowship opportunities for students pursuing advanced studies related to American Latino life, art, history, and culture.
- Objective 2.2: Expand and enhance existing museum-based fellowship opportunities for students pursuing advanced studies relating to American Latino life, art, history, and culture.
Funding Information
- Total amount of funding IMLS expects to award through this announcement: $4,000,000
- Expected amount of individual awards: $100,000 – $750,000
- Average amount of funding per award experienced in previous years: $521,766
Project Period
Anticipated period of performance August 1, 2024 – July 31, 2027. Project activities may be carried out for one to three years.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for an award under this American Latino Museum Internship and Fellowship Initiative Notice of Funding Opportunity, your organization must meet all three of the following criteria:
- Must be either a unit of State, local, or tribal government or be a private, nonprofit organization that has tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code;
- Must be located in one of the 50 States of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of Palau; and
- Must qualify as one of the following:
- A museum with a primary focus on American Latino life, art, history, and culture that uses a professional staff, is organized on a permanent basis for essentially educational, cultural heritage, or aesthetic purposes; owns or uses tangible objects, either animate or inanimate; cares for these objects; and exhibits these objects to the general public on a regular basis through facilities that it owns or operates.
- A public or private nonprofit agency that is responsible for the operation of a museum that meets the eligibility criteria in 1, 2, and 3(a), applying on behalf of the museum. In order to be eligible, the agency must engage in the project with one or more museums that are eligible.
- A museum service organization or association whose primary purpose, as reflected in its mission, is to support museums whose primary purpose is set out in 3(a). In order to be eligible, the organization or association must engage in the project with one or more museums that are eligible under 1, 2, and 3(a).
- An Institution of Higher Education, including Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI[s]). In order to be eligible, the Institution of Higher Education must engage in the project with one or more museums that are eligible under 1, 2, and 3(a).
- Eligibility of Museums Located within a Parent Organization A museum located within a parent organization that is a State, local, or tribal government or multipurpose nonprofit entity, such as a municipality, university, historical society, foundation, or cultural center, may apply on its own behalf if the museum:
- is able to independently fulfill all the eligibility requirements listed in the above three criteria;
- functions as a discrete unit within the parent organization;
- has its own fully segregated and itemized operating budget; and
- has the authority to make the application on its own.
- Eligibility of Nonprofit Organization Affiliated with a Museum IMLS may determine that a nonprofit organization that is affiliated with a museum is eligible for this program where the organization can demonstrate that it has the ability to administer the project and can ensure compliance with the terms of this Notice of Funding Opportunity and the applicable law
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