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Opportunity Summary:

Preservation Assistance Grants is a discretionary grant program from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), administered through its Division of Preservation and Access, designed to strengthen how small and mid-sized organizations care for humanities collections. The basic purpose is capacity-building: helping institutions improve their ability to preserve, manage, and protect important cultural and historical materials so they remain accessible over the long term. The program is especially welcoming to smaller organizations and explicitly encourages applications from institutions that have never received an NEH grant, making it a common entry point for first-time NEH applicants.

The grant supports a wide range of collection types found in libraries, museums, historical societies, archives, local government records offices, cultural organizations, and colleges and universities. Eligible materials can include rare or special book and journal collections; archives and manuscripts; prints and photographs; audio and moving image materials; architectural and map records; art and material culture such as decorative objects, fine art, textiles, furniture, and other historical objects; archaeological and ethnographic holdings; and born-digital or digitized materials. In other words, the program is aimed at real-world preservation needs across both traditional physical collections and digital content, as long as the collections have humanities significance.

A key requirement of this opportunity is the use of qualified consultants whose expertise matches the project and the specific kinds of materials being preserved. NEH emphasizes that preservation is specialized work: conservators often focus on particular formats (for example, paper, paintings, or three-dimensional objects), so applicants are expected to select consultants with the right specialty for their holdings. For archival collections in particular, NEH stresses the need for a consultant who understands both archives and preservation. The reasoning is practical: archival preservation decisions are tied closely to how collections are organized, processed, and described, so a strong preservation assessment should also include guidance on management and processing needs, along with longer-term plans for arrangement and description.

From an administrative standpoint, this opportunity was posted January 9, 2012 (created January 3, 2012) with an application deadline of May 1, 2012, and an archive date of May 31, 2012. Awards have a ceiling of $6,000, with no stated minimum award amount, and there is no cost-sharing or matching requirement. The funding opportunity number is 20120501-PG, and it is associated with CFDA 45.149 (Promotion of the Humanities). The funding instrument type is a grant, and the activity category is Humanities.

Eligibility is broad and covers many of the institution types that commonly hold humanities collections. Eligible applicants include county governments; city or township governments; special district governments; state governments; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; and nonprofit organizations, including both 501(c)(3) nonprofits and certain nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education in that specific category). This scope is meant to capture both nonprofit cultural organizations and public entities responsible for stewardship of local and state records and heritage materials.

For more detailed guidance, NEH provided an official program link at http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/PAG.html. Applicants needing help accessing the announcement were directed to NEH Division of Preservation and Access, Room 411, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20506; phone 202-606-8570; email preservation@neh.gov.

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