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PRESERVATION ASSISTANCE GRANTS FOR SMALLER INSTITUTIONS
from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
NEH Preservation Assistance Grants (PAG) help small and mid-sized institutions—such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, cultural organizations, town, city, and county records offices, and colleges and universities—improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections.
Humanities collections may include special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine art objects, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, historical objects, and digital materials.
DEADLINE: January 15, 2020
APPLICATION AVAILABLE: November 15, 2019
Eligible Activities for NEH PAG Grants include:
• General Preservation Assessments
• Consultation with preservation professionals to address a specific issue, need, or problem, including:
Developing disaster preparedness and response plans; Establishing environmental monitoring systems; Assessing the conservation needs of a collection; Developing detailed plans to improve storage or rehousing a collection.
• Purchase of storage furniture and preservation supplies
• Purchase of environmental monitoring equipment
• Preservation education and training
Why Apply for the NEH Preservation Assistance Grant?
• PAG funding can jumpstart your preservation program with a Preservation Needs Assessment. Need a roadmap? Start here!
• Develop your staff and volunteer skills – by using grant funds to attend existing trainings or to develop a custom on-site workshop with an expert.
• Get your digital collections on the right track with a PAG-funded digital preservation consultation.
• A PAG-funded Preservation Needs Assessment can lay the groundwork for more funding in the future.
• The easy grant application is a great way for small organizations to gain confidence in grant writing.
COMPLETE Information and NEH Preservation Assistance Grants Guidelines. (Use last year's guidelines to begin developing your project.)
FREE WEBINAR
Join us on November 14 or December 12, 2019 for NEDCC’s free webinar:
“Writing your Preservation Assistance Grant,” which includes Q&A with an NEH Program Officer.
See our Current Programs List to register.
INTERESTED in Working with NEDCC to Develop a PAG Project?
NEDCC can provide consultations on a wide variety of preservation, conservation, digitization, and audio preservation issues, as well as preservation assessments and collection assessments. Customized training programs are available.
QUESTIONS?
Feel free to contact us to start the planning process.
Email: [email protected] or call (978) 470-1010
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