NEDCC
Preserving Heritage Collections
Since 1973

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**** NOTE: DEADLINE DATE CHANGED ****

Deadline is now:
DECEMBER 1, 2010
(Was November 16, 2010)

Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities help cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials by supporting preventive conservation measures that mitigate deterioration and prolong the useful life of collections.

Eligible institutions include U.S. nonprofit museums, libraries, and archives, as well as state and local government agencies and tribal governments with humanities collections.

Preventive conservation measures include managing relative humidity and temperature levels in collection spaces, providing protective storage enclosures and systems for collections, and safeguarding collections from natural and man-made disasters.

Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
offers two kinds of grants:

Planning and Evaluation Grants
To help an institution develop solutions to complex preventive conservation challenges, grants of up to $40,000 will support planning projects, which may encompass such activities as site visits, planning sessions, monitoring, testing, project-specific research, and preliminary designs for implementation projects.

Planning grants focused on exploring sustainable preventive conservation strategies are especially encouraged.

Implementation Grants
To help an institution implement a preventive conser-vation project, grants of up to $400,000 are available. Implementation projects should be based on planning that has been specific to the needs of the institution and its collections within the context of its local environment.

It is not necessary to receive an NEH planning grant to be eligible for an implementation grant. Planning could be supported by NEH, other federal agencies, private foundations, or an institution’s internal funds.

READ THE GUIDELINES.

VIEW A LIST OF AWARDS from the program's first year.

FOR ELIGIBLITY QUESTIONS AND MORE INFORMATION
Contact NEH's Division of Preservation and Access
(202) 606-8570 or preservation@neh.gov .

HOW CAN NEDCC HELP?

NEDCC's preservation professionals can work with project partners such as preservation architects or environmental engineers to develop strategies for improving long-term care of collections.

To discuss your project, contact:
Angelina Altobellis
NEDCC Assessment Program Coordinator
aaltobellis@nedcc.org, (978) 470-1010 ext. 244