Connecting to Collections Care

Application Available for Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections Funding Opportunity 

Due: January 12, 2024 

Maximum funding:  

Planning: $50,000 
Implementation Level I: $100,000 
Implementation Level II: $350,000 

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access is accepting applications for the Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections program. This program helps cultural institutions preserve humanities collections for future generations through environmentally sustainable preventive care strategies that reduce energy consumption and costs and strengthen institutional resiliency in the face of a changing climate. 

The SCHC program offers three levels of funding: Planning, Implementation Level I, and Implementation Level II.  

Planning  

The Planning category provides funding for institutions of any size to develop and assess environmentally sustainable preventive care strategies in collection spaces. These awards are up to $50,000 for a two-year period of performance.  

Implementation Level I  

The Implementation Level I category provides funding for small to mid-sized institutions to implement environmentally sustainable preventive care projects that address specific, discrete preservation challenges that have been identified through an assessment. These awards are up to $100,000 for a period of performance of up to two years. 

Implementation Level II 

The Implementation Level II category provides funding for institutions of any size to implement environmentally sustainable preventive care projects that address large or multifaceted preservation challenges that have been identified through assessments and planning conducted by a multidisciplinary collaborative professional team appropriate to the goals of the project. These awards are up to $350,000 for a period of performance of up to three years. 

 Optional Draft Review 

Program officers will review a draft of the narrative portion of your application in any stage of completion if submitted by December 7, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. Please email your draft as an attachment to preservation@neh.gov. 

A pre-recorded webinar will be published on the program resource page https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/sustaining-cultural-heritage-collections by December 1, 2023. 

More information: https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/sustaining-cultural-heritage-collections  

Further questions or to request a consult with a program officer: preservation@neh.gov 

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