NPS Save America's Treasures 2009 Grant Round CFDA 15.929 (mod 1)

Save America’s Treasures grants are available for preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant intellectual and cultural artifacts and collections and on nationally significant historic properties. Grants are awarded through a competitive process and require a dollar-for-dollar, non-Federal match, which can be cash, donated services, or use of equipment. The grant and the non-Federal match must be expended during the grant period, generally 2 to 3 years, to execute the project. The minimum grant request for collections projects is $25,000 Federal share; the minimum grant request for historic property projects is $125,000 Federal share. The maximum grant request for all projects is $700,000 Federal share. Applications are due by May 22, 2009. Applications WILL NOT be accepted through Grants.gov.

The Save America’s Treasures Grants Selection Panel may, at its discretion, award less than the minimum grant request. Example of activities supported by these grants may be found at at their website.

Save America's Treasures Website

Application Instructions

Applications are due by May 22, 2009. Applications WILL NOT be accepted through Grants.gov. Information on the application can be found here: http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/treasures/application.htm

Please complete and save all of the REVISED Save America's Treasure(SAT) application forms onto your computer. Though most of the forms look exactly the same as the previous forms, they include a box at the top of the form for an application number. This number is essential for your application submittal.
REQUEST AN SAT APPLICATION NUMBERAn application number will be sent to the email address provided.

Who May Apply

• Federal Agencies funded by the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.
• Other Federal agencies collaborating with a nonprofit partner to preserve the historic properties or collections owned by the Federal agency may submit applications through the nonprofit partner.
• Nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c), U.S organizations.
• Units of state or local government.
• Federally recognized Indian Tribes.
• Historic properties and collections associated with active religious organizations are eligible to apply for grants. They must meet the grant Selection Criteria, including national significance.

What is funded

• Preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant intellectual and cultural artifacts and nationally significant historic structures and sites. Intellectual and cultural artifacts include artifacts, collections, documents, sculpture and works of art (hereinafter collections).
• Historic structures and sites include historic districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects (hereinafter historic properties).
  

What is not funded

• Acquisition (i.e. purchase in fee simple or interest) of intellectual and cultural artifacts, historic sites, buildings, structures or objects.
• Survey or inventory of historic properties or cataloging of collections.
• Long-term maintenance or curatorial work beyond the grant period.
• Interpretive or training programs.
• Reconstruction of historic properties (i.e. recreating all or a significant portion of a structure that no longer exists).
• Moving historic properties or work on historic properties that have been moved.
• Construction of new buildings.
• Historic structure reports and condition assessments, unless they are one component of a larger project to implement the results of these studies by performing work recommended by the studies.
• Cash reserves, endowments or revolving funds. Funds must be expended within the grant period, which is generally 2 to 3 years, and may not be used to create an endowment or revolving fund or otherwise spent over many years.
• Costs of fund-raising campaigns.
• Costs of work performed prior to announcement of award.
• For Federal agency grantees - Federal salaries, agency overhead or administrative costs.
  

Selection Criteria

• The collection or historic property must be nationally significant.
• Collections or historic properties not meeting this criterion will receive no further consideration.
• The collection or historic property must be threatened or endangered, and the application must document the urgent preservation and/or conservation need.
• Projects must substantially mitigate the threat and must have a clear public benefit (for example, historic places open for visitation or collections available for public viewing or scholarly research).
  The project must be feasible (i.e. able to be completed within the proposed activities, schedule, and budget described in the application), and the application must document adequately the required non-Federal match.

NEH Interpreting America's Historic Places: Implementation Grants CFDA 45.164

As part of the NEH’s We the People program, Interpreting America’s Historic Places grants support public humanities projects that exploit the evocative power of historic places to address themes and issues central to American history and culture, including those that advance knowledge of how the founding principles of the United States have shaped and been shaped by American history and culture for more than two hundred years. Interpreting America’s Historic Places projects may interpret a single historic site or house, a series of sites, an entire neighborhood, a town or community, or a larger geographical region. The place taken as a whole must be significant to American history, and the project must convey its historic importance to visitors. Applications are due by January 28, 2009.


The audience for Interpreting America’s Historic Places projects is the general public. (For other public humanities projects that may not focus so closely on historic places, refer to the implementation grant guidelines for America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations.) The goals of Interpreting America’s Historic Places are to enhance lifelong learning in American history by connecting nationally significant events, people, ideas, stories, and traditions with specific places; foster the development of interpretive programs for the public that address central events, themes, and issues in American history; and encourage consultation with humanities scholars and history organizations in the development of heritage tourism destinations.

Interpreting America’s Historic Places projects should interpret a place that played a significant role in American history; enrich the visitor experience at one or more historic places by interpreting these places in light of broader themes in American history; make use of the specific features of one or more historic places—the site, its location, buildings, or other natural or built features—as integral parts of the proposed interpretation; build on sound humanities scholarship; involve humanities scholars in all phases of development and implementation; approach the subject thematically, analytically, and interpretively through an appropriate variety of perspectives; interest broad audiences; and employ appealing and accessible program formats that will actively engage the public in learning.

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: 20090128-BR
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Posted Date: Dec 02, 2008
Creation Date: Dec 02, 2008
Original Closing Date for Applications: Jan 28, 2009
Current Closing Date for Applications: Jan 28, 2009
Archive Date: Feb 27, 2009
Funding Instrument Type: Grant
Category of Funding Activity: Humanities (see "Cultural Affairs" in CFDA)
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling: $1,000,000
Award Floor: $0
CFDA Number(s): 45.164 -- Promotion of the Humanities_Public Programs
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No


Complete grant announcement for IAHP Implementation Grant

Deptartment of Homeland Security (DHS) Urban Areas Security Initiative Nonprofit Security Grant Program (UASI-NSGP)

The FY2008 NSGP provides funding support for target-hardening activities to nonprofit organizations that are deemed at high risk of a potential terrorist attack. While this funding is provided specifically to high-risk nonprofit organizations, the program seeks to integrate nonprofit preparedness activities with broader State and local preparedness efforts. It is also designed to promote coordination and collaboration in emergency preparedness activities among public and private community representatives, State and local government agencies, and Citizen Corps Councils. The UASI Nonprofit Security Grant Program will provide $15 million to high-risk nonprofit organizations. Each nonprofit organization may apply through the State for a grant award of up to $75,000. Grant recipients must meet a 75% Federal-25% grantee match requirement. Grantee contributions must be from non-Federal sources. Possible uses might include the purchase and training involved with Inspection and Screening systems.

http://www.fema.gov/pdf/government/grant/uasi/fy08_uasi_guidance.pdf

Application deadline
Completed Applications must be submitted to grants.gov no later than 11:59 PM EDT, May 1, 2008.

Eligibility
Nonprofit, 501(c) (3) organizations that are at deemed high risk of a potential terrorist attack and are located within one of the specific FY08 UASI-eligible Urban Areas are eligible to submit applications through their State Administrative Agency (SAA).

Criteria for determining eligible applicants who are at high risk of terrorist attack include, but are not limited to:

• Identification and substantiation (e.g. police reports or insurance claims) of prior threats or attacks against the nonprofit organization or closely related organizations (within or outside the U.S.) by a terrorist organization, network, or cell.
• Symbolic value of the site(s) as a highly recognized national or historical institution that renders the site a possible target of terrorism.
• Role of the applicant nonprofit organization in responding to or recovering from terrorist attacks.
• Findings from previously conducted risk assessments including threat, vulnerability or consequence.

Not all eligible nonprofit organizations and UASI communities are guaranteed to receive funding under the FY 2008 NSGP. Allocation decisions will be made based on risk and how well applicants address program requirements through their investment justifications.

NEH Small Grants to Libraries / Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience

The Small Grants to Libraries program brings traveling exhibitions and other types of public programming to libraries across the country. "Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience" is a collaboration between the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Library Association (ALA), and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. The exhibition is based upon a permanent exhibition of the same name on display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y. The traveling exhibition and tour are funded by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to the American Library Association. "Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience" has been designated as part of the NEH’s We the People program, exploring significant events and themes in our nation’s history and culture and advancing knowledge of the principles that define America.

Funding Opportunity Number: 20080404-LT
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Posted Date: Feb 01, 2008
Creation Date: Feb 01, 2008
Original Closing Date for Applications: Apr 04, 2008
Current Closing Date for Applications: Apr 04, 2008
Archive Date: May 04, 2008
Funding Instrument Type: Grant
Category of Funding Activity: Humanities (see "Cultural Affairs" in CFDA)
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling: $2,500
Award Floor: $0
CFDA Number: 45.164 -- Promotion of the Humanities_Public Programs
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No

http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/SGL_PrideAndPassion.html

National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) Electronic Records Grant Program

The focus of the NHPRC's Electronic Records grant program is to support projects that will lead to sustainable electronic records archives that preserve digital records with enduring historical value. Projects cannot use grant funds to digitize historical records. Applicants who wish to digitize records should refer to the Digitizing Historical Records announcement.
We seek applications for projects that:

1. Develop institutional capacity through program evaluation and planning;
2. Create institutional capacity with program start-up support;
3. Expand the scope of existing programs; or
4. Develop electronic records service providers that can offer reliable preservation services to archives.
   

We strongly encourage each application to include professional development components necessary for the success of the project. These may consist of basic or advanced e-records training for archives staff, agency records managers, high level administrators, IT staff, and others.

NHPRC support begins no earlier than January 1, 2009.
Draft Deadline (optional): April 1, 2008
Final Deadline: June 2, 2008
http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/electronic.html