Grant Roundup:
Connecting to Collections
Statewide Implementation Grants

Statewide Implementation Grants, an important component of the Connecting to Collections initiative, will fund a limited number of grants to implement the plans or models created with the Statewide Planning grants, addressing issues identified in the Heritage Health Index, to:

• provide safe conditions for their collections;
• develop an emergency plan;
• assign responsibility for collections care; and
• work together to increase public and private support for, and raise public awareness about, collections care.

These grants are designed to encourage people and institutions in each state to cooperate on a plan that will benefit all. Project activities should accommodate needs of institutions in each state; they do not need to address all four recommendations. Each state should indicate its most pressing needs, report what has already been done, name the organizations and people to be involved in the planning process, and outline specific next steps.

Deadline: December 15, 2009