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Opportunity Summary:

The Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions program is a discretionary grant opportunity from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), administered through its Division of Preservation and Access, designed to strengthen the preservation capacity of small to mid-sized organizations that hold humanities collections. The central purpose of the program is practical and capacity-building: it helps eligible institutions improve how they preserve, care for, and manage collections that have long-term value for research, education, and public understanding of the humanities.

This program is aimed at a wide range of community-based and mission-driven organizations that often care for important materials with limited staff, storage space, or conservation resources. Eligible applicants include federally recognized Native American tribal governments, state governments, county governments, city or township governments, and special district governments, as well as public and state-controlled institutions of higher education and private institutions of higher education. It is also open to nonprofit organizations, including those with 501(c)(3) status and those without 501(c)(3) status (as long as they are not institutions of higher education in that category). In other words, the opportunity is broadly accessible to libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, cultural organizations, local records offices, and colleges and universities that serve as stewards of humanities collections.

The collections supported by the program are defined broadly, reflecting the reality that humanities evidence comes in many formats and conditions. NEH notes that eligible materials can include special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, and a wide range of museum objects such as decorative and fine art, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, and other historical objects. Importantly, the program also recognizes digital materials as part of the preservation landscape, acknowledging that born-digital and digitized content requires intentional care and planning if it is to remain accessible over time.

In terms of funding levels, awards range from a minimum (award floor) of $1 to a maximum (award ceiling) of $6,000. The program does not require cost sharing or matching funds, which can make it more feasible for smaller organizations that may not have flexible budgets or the ability to raise match dollars. The listed CFDA number is 45.149, Promotion of the Humanities, under the broader humanities funding activity category.

For the specific opportunity details provided, the funding opportunity number is 20140501-PG, and the opportunity title is Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions. The opportunity was posted on February 20, 2014, and the closing date is May 1, 2014 (original and current closing dates are the same in the source information). Additional program information is available through NEH at the listed link: http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/preservation-assistance-grants-smaller-institutions.

Applicants who need help accessing the full announcement or have questions are directed to contact the NEH Division of Preservation and Access in Washington, DC, by phone at 202-606-8570 or by email at preservation@neh.gov.

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