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: 01/10/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
This program helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting environmentally sustainable preventive care measures that mitigate deterioration, prolong the useful life of collections, reduce energy consumption, and strengthen institutions’ ability to anticipate and respond to disasters.
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. Recipients should use environmentally sustainable methods that reduce reliance on fossil fuels and improve institutional resiliency from current and future disasters.
CategoriesÂ
- Planning
- The Planning category provides funding to develop and assess environmentally sustainable preventive care strategies in collection spaces.
- Implementation Levels I and II
- The Implementation Level I category provides funding to implement environmentally sustainable preventive care projects that address specific, discrete preservation challenges that have been identified through an assessment. Level I awards support projects that derive from a general preservation needs assessment, risk assessment, or other targeted collections assessment conducted by internal or consulting professionals who have identified preservation challenges and priorities and prepared an assessment report or summary. You should apply for this level of funding if you are ready to implement small-scale environmentally sustainable preventive care measures as a result of such assessments.
- The Implementation Level II category provides funding to implement environmentally sustainable preventive care projects. Projects may address large or multifaceted preservation challenges that have been identified through assessments. Projects must be informed by a planning phase conducted by a multidisciplinary collaborative professional team appropriate to the goals of the project such as architects, HVAC engineers, building engineers, lighting specialists, conservators, curators, facilities managers, and specialists in environmentally sustainable preventive care and/or disaster preparedness.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $2,000,000
- Planning: up to $50,000.
- Implementation, Level I: up to $100,000.
- Implementation, Level II: up to $350,00.Â
Grant Period
- 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, 2025, and January 31, 2026.
Eligibility CriteriaÂ
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- City or township governments
- State governments
- Special district governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- County governments.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
