Save America's Treasures Application Available for FY2002 Grants

Applications are now available for the FY2002 Save America’s Treasures Grants. The grants are administered by the National Park Service in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and will be awarded through a competitive process.

Grants require a dollar-for-dollar non-federal match. The minimum grant request for collections projects is $50,000 federal share; the minimum grant request for historic property projects is $250,000 federal share. The maximum grant request for all projects is $1 million federal share. In 2001, the average award was $249,000.

Applications must be received by April 5, 2002. To obtain an on-line application, visit www.arts.gov/partner/SAT2002B.html.

WHO MAY APPLY

  • Federal Agencies funded by the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (see below).
  • Non-profit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3), U.S organizations.
  • Units of state or local government.
  • Federally recognized Indian Tribes.
WHAT IS FUNDED
Preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant intellectual and cultural artifacts and nationally significant historic structures and sites. Intellectual and cultural artifacts include artifacts, collections, documents, statues and works of art (hereinafter collections). Historic structures and sites include historic districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects (hereinafter historic properties).

WHAT IS NOT FUNDED

  • Acquisition (i.e. purchase in fee simple or interest) of intellectual and cultural artifacts, historic sites, buildings, structures or objects.
  • Survey or inventory of historic properties or cataloging of collections.
  • Long-term maintenance or curation.
  • Interpretive or training programs.
  • Reconstruction of historic properties (i.e. recreating all or a significant portion of a structure that no longer exists).
  • Moving buildings or work associated with a building that has been moved.
  • Historic structure reports and condition assessments, unless they are one component of a larger project to implement the results of these studies.
  • Cash reserves, endowments or revolving funds; funds must be expended within 2 years of award and may not be used to create an endowment or revolving fund or otherwise spent over many years.
  • Costs of fund-raising campaigns.
  • Historic properties and collections associated with an active religious organization (for example, restoration of an historic church that is still actively used as a church).
  • For Federal agency grantees – Federal salaries, agency overhead or administrative costs.
  • Costs of work performed prior to announcement of award.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
The collections or historic properties must be nationally significant. This is a threshold criterion; applications not meeting this criterion are not eligible for funding and will not receive further consideration.

The collections or historic properties must be threatened, endangered or otherwise demonstrate an urgent preservation and/or conservation need.

Projects must address the threat and must have educational, interpretive, or training value and a clear public benefit (for example, historic places open for visitation or collections available for public viewing or scholarly research).

Projects must be feasible (i.e., able to be accomplished within the proposed activities, schedule and budget described in the application), and the applicant must demonstrate ability to complete the project and match the Federal funds.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Questions and requests for electronic versions of the application may be addressed to these agencies:

For collections projects:
National Endowment for the Arts
Telephone: 202-682-5489
E-mail: mclaughm@arts.endow.gov or jeffersk@arts.endow.gov

For historic properties projects:
National Park Service
Telephone: 202-343-9570
E-mail treasures@nps.gov
Web www2.cr.nps.gov/treasures

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