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National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions

Application Deadline: May 15, 2006

Award Amount: Up to $5,000

Project Start Date: January 2007

This program is designed to help small and mid-size institutions, such as libraries, museums, and historical societies, archival repositories, town and county records offices, and colleges, improve their ability to preserve and care for their humanities collections. These may include special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine arts, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, and historical objects.

Awards of up to $5000 support preservation related collection assessments, consultations, and workshops, and institutional and collaborative disaster and emergency planning. Grants cover consultant fees, workshop registration fees, related travel and per diem expenses, and the costs of purchasing and shipping preservation supplies and equipment.

Institutions affected by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma are encouraged to request support through the Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions for the salvage and protection of damaged humanities collections. In addition to the activities above, institutions in the federally designated disaster areas that were affected by the hurricanes may also use Preservation Assistance Grants for the following:

No cost sharing is required. All grants are awarded for a period of eighteen months.

Application materials and instructions are available at: www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pag.html. The receipt deadline is May 15, 2006, for projects beginning in January 2007. For more information, contact the NEH Division of Preservation and Access by e-mail at preservation@neh.gov or at the telephone number below.

Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions
Division of Preservation and Access, Room 411
National Endowment for the Humanities
Telephone: (202) 606-8570
Web site: www.neh.gov

All institutions applying for an NEH grant must submit their applications via Grants.gov. In order to submit applications, your institution must register with Grants.gov and create an institutional profile. Once registered, your organization can then apply for any government grant on the Grants.gov Web site. To help you through the Grants.gov registration process, we have created a handy checklist. More information about Grants.gov is also available.