Project Grant PG23366116

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program awarded a $344,315 project grant to the Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. to create a sustainable preservation media storage environment. The funding will support the purchase and installation of a walk-in freezer and HVAC system as part of a larger construction project to house the university's millions of unique media assets held by its Special...

Federal Grant Award Summary The City of Boston received a $525,262 Project Grant award on September 23, 2025, under the Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929), administered by the National Park Service in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Institute of Museum and Library Services. This award funds conservation and collections housing for the City of Boston's 1740 ceramics collection, a nationally significant historic...

Federal Grant Award Summary The City of Boston received a $315,300 Project Grant award on August 22, 2025, from the National Park Service under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid for Competitive Grants program (CFDA 15.966), Semiquincentennial Grant Program (Opportunity P24AS00546). The award funds the physical preservation and repair of deteriorated slate and brownstone monuments in Boston that are associated with America's founding heritage and listed in the National Register of...

The Grand Rapids Public Museum will improve storage conditions for its natural history collection through a $423,752 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301). The museum will install new storage units meeting industry standards to house 47,500 specimens composed of invertebrates, botanicals, rocks/minerals, birds, fossils, mammals and reptiles. Most items are currently stored on open shelving or old wood cabinets susceptible to...

The University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries and Museum will receive $480,885 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program to carry out a digitization and cataloging project for an at-risk audiovisual collection held by the Institute of Texan Cultures. Key deliverables include cataloging, rehousing, and moving thousands of collection items to climate-controlled storage; digitizing prioritized at-risk items; and providing practical...

Through a $415,761 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, doing business as Taliesin West, will purchase new high-density compact storage to properly house its extensive collections. This will increase the Foundation's collection storage capacity, improve storage conditions by reducing overcrowding, and minimize handling and movement of artwork while ensuring safer long-term storage. The award...

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 Arch Street Meeting House Preservation Trust was awarded a $672,374.50 Project Grant from the National Park Service's Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929) to install a fire suppression system at the Arch Street Meeting House, a National Historic Landmark in Philadelphia. The grant funding will be used to install sprinkler pipes throughout the building's crawlspace, basement, floors, and attic to safeguard the historic site from fire risk and improve visitor safety. This project...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $122,452 Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) project grant to En Foco Incorporated, a non-profit organization in the Bronx, New York. The grant will support En Foco's efforts to inventory, rehouse, and digitize materials chronicling its 50-year exhibition history. Key activities include hiring a full-time digital librarian to research, organize, digitize, and rehouse the organization's exhibition archive. The digitized collection will...

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...