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Opportunity Summary:

The Preservation and Access Research and Development Grants program is a discretionary grant opportunity from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), administered through its Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149, Promotion of the Humanities). The program is designed to fund research and development projects that tackle major, field-wide problems in preserving humanities materials and improving access to them. In practical terms, it supports work that helps libraries, archives, museums, and related organizations protect and make usable the kinds of collections that underpin humanities scholarship, including fragile physical items such as artifacts and manuscripts, at-risk analog media like audio and video recordings, and digital content that can become unusable as formats and technologies change.

The core purpose of the grant is to move beyond routine preservation or standard digitization by encouraging applicants to identify a clearly defined challenge, test procedures and potential solutions, and generate results that others in the humanities community can adopt. NEH is looking for projects that are problem-driven and methodical: applicants are expected to articulate the specific issue they are addressing, describe the approach they will use to develop or refine a solution, and explain how they will evaluate whether the work succeeds. A key expectation is that the outcomes will not be narrow or purely local. Instead, the results should benefit a meaningful segment of humanists, which typically implies that tools, methods, findings, standards, workflows, or best practices can be transferred, replicated, or scaled by other institutions.

Funding under this opportunity is offered as a grant with an award ceiling of $350,000 and no stated minimum award amount (award floor listed as $0). Cost sharing or matching is not required, which can make the program more accessible for organizations that may not have significant nonfederal funds available. The funding opportunity number is 20120516 PR. For the cycle described in the source information, the opportunity was posted March 7, 2012, with an application closing date of May 16, 2012, and an archive date of June 15, 2012.

Eligibility is broadly open to U.S. nonprofit organizations and public-sector entities involved in cultural stewardship and humanities work. Eligible applicants include nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education in that specific category), public and private institutions of higher education, and state, local, county, city/township, and special district governments, as well as federally recognized Native American tribal governments. Individuals are not eligible to apply. NEH also notes that it generally does not award grants directly to other federal entities, or to projects so intertwined with a federal entity that the activity effectively becomes part of that federal entitys authorized work, though applicants may still use federal sites, materials, or other federal grant funds as part of their overall project where appropriate.

Finally, the program emphasizes dissemination. Applicants are expected to share what they learn so that the wider humanities preservation and access community can benefit, whether through publications, presentations, openly shared documentation, or other forms of distribution. Additional program details were provided through an NEH information link (http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/PARD.html), and the listed contact for assistance was the Preservation and Access Research and Development office at NEH (preservation@neh.gov; 202-606-8570; Room 411, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20506).

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