Project Grant PG28787422

Award Date 9/1/22
Completion Date 8/31/23
Dollars Obligated $20K
Federal Grant Program
45.149
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Iowa, USA
Similar Awards
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 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...
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...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program provides $331,528 to Lewis & Clark College to rebuild and reinvigorate its special collections program. The College will use the funding over two years from October 2021 through September 2023 to create exhibits, process Indigenous and Asian archives, and develop a community archive with the local Vietnamese community. This will allow the special...
This $149,779 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program will deploy a full-time Rapid Response Community Archivist over a two-year period to work with at least six of Wisconsin's twelve Native Nations. The Archivist will provide culturally relevant technical expertise and targeted practical assistance to advance high-needs digital preservation and curation activities within tribal...
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...
This federal Project Grant award of $350,000.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.149 - Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access) will support the University of Pacific's efforts to improve the preservation and storage of their archival collections. The funding will be used to replace existing broken storage systems that threaten to damage the collections, and provide new high-density shelving to rehouse collections currently in substandard storage...
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 $350,000 Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections Implementation Level II grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Wagner Free Institute of Science, a National Historic Landmark in Philadelphia, PA. The grant funding will be used to install a sustainable new HVAC system in the library wing and integrate a direct digital control (DDC) system across the site's HVAC...

CORNELL COLLEGE ARCHIVES POST-DERECHO PRESERVATION EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES [IN 2021, THE CORNELL ARCHIVES WAS AWARDED AN NEH PRESERVATION ASSISTANCE GRANT FOR A PRESERVATION ASSESSMENT OF THE PHYSICAL COLLECTION AND A SURVEY OF DIGITAL NEEDS. THE IMPETUS FOR THAT GRANT APPLICATION WAS THE DERECHO OF 2020, A FEDERALLY DECLARED DISASTER WHICH DAMAGED EVERY BUILDING ON CAMPUS, INCLUDING THE LIBRARY. BASED ON THE CONSULTANT?S RECOMMENDATIONS, THIS ROUND OF FUNDING WILL SUPPORT PHYSICAL PRESERVATION WITH ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING EQUIPMENT; FLOODING SENSORS TO FORESTALL WATER INFILTRATION SUCH AS THE ARCHIVES SUFFERED IN 2020; STORAGE SHELVING AND EQUIPMENT FOR CURRENTLY UNHOUSED ARTWORK, GLASS NEGATIVES, AND OTHER MATERIALS; AND VARIOUS PRESERVATION SUPPLIES. THIS FUNDING WILL COMPLEMENT OTHER INITIATIVES RESULTING FROM THIS CONSULTATION INCLUDING POLICY UPDATES AND THE PURSUIT OF OTHER FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES. FOLLOWING COMPLETION OF THIS PHASE OF THE PROJECT, CORNELL WILL SEEK FUTURE FUNDING FOR TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT RELATED TO DIGITAL PRESERVATION.]

Posted 8/30/22