The Northeast Document Conservation Center, Inc. (NEDCC) received a two-year, $350,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. Through this funding, NEDCC will provide free preservation training, resources and assessments to ensure the long-term care of humanities collections. Specific deliverables include eight hands-on disaster preparedness workshops, eight general preservation...
The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) received a $349,400 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to continue and broaden the reach of CCAHA's Preservation Field Services programs over a two-year period from April 2024 to March 2026. The grant will fund a range of activities, including: providing NEH-subsidized preservation planning assessments to 16 small to mid-sized cultural...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), awarded a $349,009 Project Grant to the Northeast Document Conservation Center, Inc. (NEDCC) to develop tools and workflows for preserving digital audio tape (DAT) collections. The project aims to address the lack of accessible preservation solutions for accurately transferring audio and metadata from the at-risk DAT format, which is likely to contain unique content. The key...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $339,120 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (FAIC). Through this 2-year grant, which runs from March 2024 to February 2026, FAIC will develop and deliver 5 technical skill-based workshops for conservators and 4 outreach workshops for broader audiences. These workshops aim to address critical needs identified in...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $345,896 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources implementation grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library organization. The two-year grant, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2026, will fund the digitization of and permanent online access to nine local history collections from seven public libraries across the...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Utah Division of Arts and Museums. The grant will fund the Utah Collections Preservation Network (UCPN) project, which aims to expand access to comprehensive virtual and on-site, culturally appropriate training and mentorship activities. These activities are designed to enhance the preservation literacy...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $212,979 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Midwest Art Conservation Center, Inc. (MACC), a non-profit organization. This 2-year grant, awarded on March 1, 2024, will support the development of tools for remote risk assessment and emergency planning to improve the sustainability and resilience of public art collections nationwide. Specifically, the grant...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant to the University of Delaware's Winterthur/University of Delaware Graduate Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC) from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. This grant will provide graduate stipend support for six "NEH Fellows" annually over the three-year award period. The NEH funding, combined with $100,000 in 1:1 matched funds, supports a total project cost of $450,000. The graduate stipend support enables...
This federal Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program will fund the Midwest Art Conservation Center, Inc.'s (MACC) Regional Preservation Field Services Program from March 2025 to February 2027. The program aims to strengthen preservation practices and collections care at hundreds of cultural repositories in the Upper Midwest region, resulting in increased public...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $349,971 three-year Project Grant to Beloit College to support the Center for Collections Care's capacity building and training program. The grant funding will support the Center's mission under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149) to provide collections care training and professional development opportunities to empower cultural heritage professionals. Specifically, over the...