The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access is accepting applications for the Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections program.
Donor Name: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/12/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The SCHC program helps cultural heritage institutions with humanities collections (libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations) meet the complex challenge of preserving diverse holdings of humanities materials (books and manuscripts, photographs, sound records and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic objects, art, and historical objects) for future generations. The SCHC program supports environmentally sustainable preventive care strategies to reduce energy consumption and costs and strengthen institutional resiliency in the face of a changing climate.
The SCHC program supports environmentally sustainable preventive care, also referred to as preventive conservation or preservation, which includes measures and actions aimed at avoiding, minimizing, and slowing future deterioration or loss of cultural heritage collections, thereby sustaining them for future generations. Cultural heritage institutions may use SCHC awards to manage collections’ environment, including aspects such as temperature, relative humidity, pollutants, and light; provide protective storage enclosures and systems for collections; and safeguard collections from theft, fire, floods, and other disasters.
Funding Categories
- Planning The Planning category provides funding for institutions of any size to develop and assess environmentally sustainable preventive care strategies in collection spaces.
- Implementation Level I The Implementation Level I category provides funding for small to mid-sized institutions to implement environmentally sustainable preventive care projects that address specific, discrete preservation challenges that have been identified through an assessment.
- Implementation Level II The Implementation Level II category provides funding for institutions of any size to implement environmentally sustainable preventive care projects that address large or multifaceted preservation challenges that have been identified through assessments and planning conducted by a multidisciplinary collaborative professional team appropriate to the goals of the project.
Funding Information
- If you are applying for a Planning award, you may request up to $50,000.
- If you are applying for a Level I Implementation award, you may request up to $100,000.
- If you are applying for a Level II Implementation award, you may request up to $350,000. These totals include the sum of direct and indirect costs. NEH anticipates awarding approximately $2,000,000 among an estimated 15 recipients.
Period of Performance
- If you are applying for a Planning award or an Implementation Level I award, you may request a period of performance up to two years.
- If you are applying for an Implementation Level II award, you may request a period of performance up to three years. You may request a period of performance start date between October 1, 2024, and January 31, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to apply, your organization must be established in the United States or its jurisdictions as one of the following:
- a nonprofit organization recognized as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code
- an accredited institution of higher education (public or nonprofit)
- a state or local government or one of their agencies
- a federally recognized Native American Tribal government
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
