Project Grant PE5007212

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 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), a nonprofit preservation organization. Through this 2-year award, NEDCC will provide a range of preservation services and training resources to support the long-term care and stewardship of paper-based, photographic, audiovisual, and digital collections at cultural institutions across the...

The Foundation For Advancement In Conservation was awarded a $325,795 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program to provide emergency preparation and response training to preserve humanities collections. Specifically, the Foundation will establish two new Alliance for Response networks in New Hampshire and Arizona and train four volunteer heritage response teams in cooperation with existing AFR networks. A...

This Project Grant award of $374,288 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (CFDA 45.313) will support Dr. Alexandra Chassanoff's research into the current needs, challenges, and professionalization pathways for born-digital stewardship. The key activities and deliverables include conducting an environmental scan, studying several communities of practice, interviewing stakeholders, and producing a synthesis of...

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...

This $149,779 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will deploy a full-time Rapid Response Community Archivist to advance digital preservation and curation activities within tribal libraries, archives, and museums across at least six of Wisconsin's twelve Native Nations. Over the 2-year award period from April 2025 to March 2027, the Community Archivist will provide...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $118,334 National Leadership Grant (CFDA 45.312) to the Consortium of Metropolitan Libraries (COBIMET) to conduct a digital preservation needs assessment for public libraries and municipal archives in Puerto Rico's metropolitan area. The project will develop and implement a bilingual, publicly accessible online database using the Digital Preservation Coalition's Rapid Assessment Model. Key deliverables include a comprehensive needs...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to the Midwest Art Conservation Center, Inc. (MACC) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will fund MACC's Regional Preservation Field Services Program, which provides preventive conservation services to strengthen preservation practices and collections care at cultural repositories in the Upper Midwest. From March 2025 to February 2027, the...

The University of Arizona and its partner organizations will develop an innovative training program under a $196,356.64 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. The training program will bring together digital preservation experts and cultural heritage practitioners from under-resourced organizations to collaborate in preparing digital preservation peer assessments. Participants will learn digital preservation concepts and...

This federal Project Grant award of $349,423.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) supports the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) in expanding its "Circle of Care for Audiovisual Collections in Tribal Archives" initiative. The project aims to train tribal archivists and librarians in assessing, inventorying, digitizing, and managing audiovisual collections. Key activities include onsite workshops...