Opportunity Information: Apply for 20190131 PG
Preservation Assistance Grants is a discretionary grant program run by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) that is designed to help small and mid-sized institutions strengthen how they preserve and care for humanities collections. The core purpose is practical capacity-building: improving an organization s ability to identify preservation needs, plan for long-term stewardship, and take targeted actions that reduce risk and prevent loss. It is aimed at organizations that hold culturally and historically significant materials but may not have deep in-house preservation expertise or resources.
The opportunity supports a wide range of collection types commonly found in libraries, museums, archives, and local government records offices. Examples include special collections of books and journals; archives and manuscripts; prints, photographs, and other paper-based materials; moving image and audiovisual media such as films and sound recordings; architectural and cartographic records; works of decorative and fine art; textiles; archaeological and ethnographic materials; furniture; other historical objects; and digital materials. In other words, it is built to fit institutions with diverse holdings, from traditional analog artifacts to born-digital or digitized content.
A central requirement of the program is the use of qualified consultants whose expertise matches the applicant s specific collections and the activities proposed. NEH emphasizes that preservation and conservation are specialized fields. For example, conservators often focus on particular material categories such as paper, objects, or paintings, and institutions are expected to select consultants whose specialization is appropriate for what they actually hold and what they plan to do. Similarly, if an institution is seeking a preservation assessment for library, museum, or archival holdings, the consultant should have direct knowledge of preservation practices in that type of setting rather than general experience that does not translate well to the institution s realities.
NEH particularly encourages applications from certain applicants with significant humanities collections, including small and mid-sized institutions that have never received an NEH grant, as well as community colleges and other minority-serving or historically significant institutions such as Hispanic-serving institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and Tribal Colleges and Universities. The program also encourages applications from Native American tribes and Native Alaskan and Native Hawaiian organizations, reflecting an interest in supporting preservation capacity for communities and institutions that may be underserved in national funding landscapes.
In terms of what the grant can fund, the program highlights several priority activities. One is using consultants not only to deliver expertise, but also to mentor advanced students or recent graduates from preservation programs, giving emerging professionals hands-on experience while helping the applicant institution with real preservation work. These students or recent graduates can assist with preservation assessments, addressing specific preservation issues, and training institutional staff. Another strong emphasis is disaster preparedness, including developing disaster plans and doing collaborative training with local institutions to strengthen disaster preparedness and emergency response. This reflects the reality that collections face risks from natural disasters, theft, and many other damaging events, and that preparedness and coordination can significantly reduce losses.
The listed activities the grants may support include disaster planning, response, recovery, and mitigation; preservation assessments; conservation treatments; temporary relocation and storage of collections; purchase of preservation supplies; education and training related to disaster planning and response; and reformatting of collections as a preservation method for institutions in federally declared disaster areas. Taken together, these activities cover both planning (for example, assessments and disaster plans) and direct interventions (for example, treatments, protective supplies, and safe temporary storage), with an added emphasis on readiness and resilience when institutions are operating in or recovering from disaster conditions.
From the funding details provided, the award ceiling is 15000. The funding instrument is a grant, and the activity category is humanities under CFDA 45.149. Eligible applicants include state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; public and state controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; and nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (excluding higher education institutions in that specific nonprofit category). The opportunity number is 20190131 PG, and the original closing date listed is 2019-01-31, indicating the specific cycle referenced in the source data.Apply for 20190131 PG
- The National Endowment for the Humanities in the humanities sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Preservation Assistance Grants" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.149.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2018-12-07.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2019-01-31. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $15,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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