The Preservation Sustained Support Grant provides general operating funds to non-profit groups across King County.
Donor Name: 4Culture
State: Washington
County: King County (WA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/04/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Preservation Sustained Support provides general operating funds to non-profit groups across King County. These awards provide unrestricted operating funds to organizations delivering historic preservation programs and services, for the benefit of the public.
Grant Period
The 2025 program cycle will award funding for only one year.
Uses of Funds
A variety of expenses: operating costs related to historic preservation programs and activities accessible to King County residents and visitors; staff salaries; utilities; supplies; fees; and services.
Criteria
- For non-profit organizations and development authorities:
- Resilience: your organization has clearly stated plans to remain in operation through 2025. You have demonstrated organizational adaptability to changes in your community and in the field of historic preservation. You have demonstrated responsiveness to your community’s needs.
- Public benefit: your organization offers substantial public benefit through your programs, activities, and services. Public benefit may include – but is not limited to – any free or reduced cost admission, events, programs or services that increase access to culture in King County. Preservation Sustained Support is especially focused on increasing access to and awareness of the historic built environment.
- Economic impact: your organization stimulates the local economy through spending on wages, goods, services; promoting tourism and visitor-related spending at local businesses; and contributions to community well-being and quality of life, which have indirect economic benefits.
- Advancing equity: your organization has a focus on serving communities historically and currently underrepresented in historic preservation, especially communities that are disproportionately impacted by structural racism. This is not required for funding.
- Preservation priorities: your organization makes exceptional contributions to the preservation of King County’s historic built environment. Your organization includes a focus on resources that represent neglected aspects of the built environment.
- For municipalities:
- Resilience: your preservation program has demonstrated adaptability to changes in your community and in the field of historic preservation. You have demonstrated responsiveness to your community’s needs and have maintained historic preservation activity, services, and/or program offerings.
- Public Benefit: your municipality offers programs to increase public access to and participation in preservation. This may include – but is not limited to – technical assistance (such as support for community-led landmark nominations or other preservation projects), design guidance, grant-making programs, and tours or events related to preservation.
- Economic impact: your municipality supports and facilitates the positive economic benefits of historic preservation, which may include, but are not limited to, reinvestment in the historic building stock, heritage tourism and visitor-related spending at local businesses; and contributions to community well-being and quality of life, which have indirect economic benefits.
- Advancing equity: your preservation program has a focus on marginalized communities, especially communities that are disproportionately impacted by structural racism. This is not a requirement for funding.
- Preservation priorities: your preservation program makes exceptional contributions to the preservation of King County’s built environment, through a track record of completing surveys and inventories of historic resources, landmark designations, and design review for historic properties.
Eligibility Criteria
- Preservation Sustained Support is available for King County-based non-profit organizations and municipalities. They award these funds based on an organization’s overall mission and activities—this grant is not project-based.
- The following types of organizations are supported through this program:
- Nonprofit organizations and public development authorities with a two-year minimum operating history of providing advocacy or assistance to preserve historic places; conducting programs that interpret the built environment of King County; or preserving one or more historic properties that serve as a venue for community and cultural activities, where stewarding that space is a primary purpose for the organization.
- Municipalities with a historic preservation program established by city ordinance or historic preservation services contracted through an interlocal agreement with the King County Historic Preservation Program (KCHPP). Municipalities should have city staff dedicated part or full time to historic preservation tasks, including overseeing historic surveys, landmark designations, design review, and public education.
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