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Opportunity Summary:

The Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections (SCHC) grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is designed to help cultural institutions protect and extend the life of humanities collections through sustainable, preventive conservation. The program focuses on the reality that libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations often care for large, varied collections that are vulnerable to gradual deterioration as well as sudden, catastrophic loss. SCHC supports practical preservation work that keeps materials usable for research, teaching, public programming, and lifelong learning, while also encouraging approaches that are financially responsible and environmentally mindful.

At the center of the opportunity is preventive conservation, meaning strategies that reduce damage before it happens rather than relying mainly on item by item treatment after materials have already deteriorated. The grant emphasizes improvements to collection environments and storage conditions, such as better control and monitoring of relative humidity and temperature, appropriate light management, and reduction of airborne pollutants. It also supports upgrading protective storage enclosures and collection storage systems, along with measures that improve security and reduce risks from theft. Disaster preparedness and mitigation are also part of the preservation picture, including protecting collections from natural and human-made hazards that could cause major losses.

A key theme of SCHC is sustainability. NEH is looking for preservation strategies that balance three things at once: effectiveness for long-term collection care, overall cost to the institution, and environmental impact. In practice, this can mean planning and implementing solutions that reduce energy use, limit dependence on fossil fuels, and align with broader green initiatives without sacrificing collection safety. The intent is to help institutions become better long-term stewards by adopting preservation approaches that they can realistically maintain over time, rather than relying on expensive systems that are difficult to sustain.

This is a discretionary grant opportunity in the humanities (CFDA 45.149, Promotion of the Humanities) administered through NEH's Division of Preservation and Access. Awards range from $1 up to a ceiling of $350,000, and the opportunity does not require cost sharing or matching funds. Eligible applicants include a wide set of public and nonprofit organizations and governments, including state and local governments, special district governments, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, and nonprofits both with and without 501(c)(3) status (as long as they are not institutions of higher education in the latter case).

For the specific posting referenced, the opportunity was posted on August 26, 2014, with a closing date of December 3, 2014 (Funding Opportunity Number 20141203 PF). Applicants seeking official details and full guidance were directed to NEH's SCHC information page (http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/sustaining cultural heritage collections) and to NEH's Division of Preservation and Access for assistance (preservation@neh.gov, 202-606-8570, 400 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 20506).

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