New Disaster Funding Available

At a May 31st conference sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Tulane University in New Orleans, First Lady Laura Bush announced two new grant initiatives that will provide funding to institutions that have suffered a major disaster.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is reserving $1.5 million of the grant money it will award over the next year for projects related to the Gulf Coast and other regions affected by major disasters. Read more about this program at www.imls.gov/news/2006/060106.shtm.

The National Endowment for the Humanities will award an additional $750,000 in stabilization grants to cultural and historical institutions along the Gulf Coast. Details of the program can be found at www.neh.gov/news/archive/20060602.html.