[NHCOLL-L:5624] NEH Grants

[CAHawks at aol.com]

Date: 29 Aug 2011
From: Laura Word <lword [at]  neh__gov>
Subject: NEH grants for sustainable preservation  strategies

Just want to alert potential U.S. nonprofit museums,  libraries, and
archives about new guidelines and some changes for the  Sustaining
Cultural Heritage Collections grant program, offered by the  National
Endowment for the Humanities. Grants will be available to plan  and
implement preventive conservation projects in ways that are  cost
effective, energy efficient, and environmentally sensitive and  that
aim to mitigate greatest risks rather than to meet  prescriptive
targets. Preventive conservation measures may encompass  managing
relative humidity, temperature, light and pollutants in  collection
spaces; providing protective storage enclosures and systems  for
collections; and safeguarding collections from theft and from
natural  and man-made disasters.

Planning grants of up to $40,000 and  implementation grants of up to
$350,000 will be available.

New This  Year: To enhance the outcomes of planning grants and to
encourage incremental  improvements in the care of collections,
applicants for planning projects may  request up to an additional
$10,000 to carry out one or more recommendations  made by the
interdisciplinary planning team during the course of the  project.
Such work could help demonstrate the benefits of  sustainable
preservation strategies or lead to new information or changes  in
conditions that would influence "next steps." For such  planning
projects, the maximum award would be $50,000.

The deadline  will be December 1, 2011. The new guidelines should be
posted by  mid-September, 2011 and will contain a more detailed
description of planning  projects and the range of activities that
are eligible for support. We will  send out a second announcement
when the guidelines are posted. Please feel  free to contact the
division for more information by emailing preservation  [at] neh__gov or
calling 202-606-8570.

Laura Word
Senior Program  Officer
Division of Preservation and Access
National Endowment for the  Humanities


Catharine  Hawks
Conservator
2419 Barbour Road
Falls Church VA 22043-3026  USA
t/f 703.876-9272
mobile 703.200.4370
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