National Endowment for the Humanities
Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions
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- Budget: Up to $10,000 for organizations in the contiguous U.S. Organizations located in a non-contiguous state or jurisdiction may request an additional $5,000 for consultants’ travel and shipping costs.
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Eligibility: Expected Output Format Surveys and Inventories; Preservation and Collections Care Policies; Preservation Assessment Reports; Preservation Supplies/Equipment; Preservation and Collections Care Workshops Period of performance Up to eighteen months Project start date September 1, 2025-December 1, 2025
Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized organizations preserve and manage humanities collections, ensuring their significance for a variety of users, including source communities, humanities researchers, students, and the public, by building their capacity to identify and address physical and intellectual preservation risks. These collections 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 art objects, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, historical objects, and digital materials.
The Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions program focuses on foundational activities in preservation and management of collections, such as assessments, development of plans and policies, consultations with scholars and source communities, emergency preparedness, environmental monitoring, rehousing, format surveys and inventories, and training in preservation and collections management. The program encourages applications from small and mid-sized institutions that have never received an NEH grant; community colleges, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Tribal Colleges and Universities; and Native American tribes and Native Alaskan and Native Hawaiian organizations with humanities collections.
More Information: www.neh.gov