NARA Electronic Records Projects CFDA 89.003

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission supports projects that promote the preservation and use of America's documentary heritage essential to understanding our democracy, history, and culture. The Commission seeks proposals that will increase the capacity of archival repositories to create electronic records archives that preserve records of enduring historical value. The NHPRC supports efforts by archivists and records managers to meet the challenges of electronic records. Projects must involve institutions that have already established archives and records management programs. We seek applications for start-up or collaborative projects: Start-up projects: Develop the capacity of institutions to prepare to capture and preserve electronic records, through program planning; or Collaborative projects: Establish and/or improve electronic records archives by engaging in effective and innovative collaborations.
Applications are due June 9, 2011.


Most electronic records archives depend upon collaboration among archivists, record managers, and information technology specialists. Only a few organizations have all the required expertise, making training, collaboration and recruitment of new personnel essential components of electronic records archives. We strongly encourage applicants to include professional development components necessary for the success of the project. These may consist of basic or advanced electronic records and digital preservation training for archives staff, agency records managers, high level administrators, information technologists, and others. Projects in this category cannot digitize historical records. Applicants who wish to digitize records should refer to the Digitizing Historical Records announcement. In addition, projects cannot establish electronic document management systems that only manage born-digital records with limited retention periods. Applications requesting support for these activities will be considered ineligible in this program.

Award Information: A grant normally is for 1 to 3 years and up to $300,000. The Commission expects to make up to 6 grants in this category, for a total of up to $600,000.

Cost Sharing: Cost sharing is required. It is the financial contribution the applicant pledges to the cost of a project. Cost sharing can include both direct and indirect expenses, in-kind contributions, non-Federal third-party contributions, and any income earned directly by the project. The NHPRC will provide up to 50 percent of the total project costs.

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: ELECTRONIC-201106
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Posted Date: Dec 15, 2010
Creation Date: Dec 15, 2010
Original Closing Date for Applications: Jun 09, 2011
Current Closing Date for Applications: Jun 09, 2011
Archive Date: Jul 09, 2011
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: $300,000
Award Floor: $0
CFDA Number(s): 89.003 -- National Historical Publications and Records Grants
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: Yes

http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/electronic.html
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NARA Publishing Historical Records 2011 CFDA 89.003

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), a part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), supports projects that promote supports projects that promote the preservation and use of America's documentary heritage essential to understanding our democracy, history, and culture. This announcement is for Colonial and Early National Period Projects (those preparing publications whose documents fall predominantly prior to 1820).
Applications are due June 9, 2011.

The Commission seeks proposals to publish historical records of national significance. Projects may focus on the papers of major figures from American life or cover broad historical movements in politics, military, business, social reform, the arts, and other aspects of the national experience. The historical value of the records and their expected usefulness to broad audiences must justify the costs of the project. Grants are awarded for collecting, describing, preserving, compiling, editing, and publishing documentary source materials.

The NHPRC does not fund proposals to purchase historical records; it also does not fund proposals to publish the papers of anyone who has been deceased for fewer than ten years. Eligible Activities Include: Scholarly documentary editions in printed and bound volumes. Scholarly documentary editions in online and other formats. Image editions in online, microfilm, and other formats. Conversion of existing print and microfilm editions to electronic publications. Combinations of the above. A publishing project that has received NHPRC support can apply for a grant for a new or subsequent stage of that project.

These proposals must demonstrate that they have successfully completed the performance objectives associated with previous NHPRC grant awards. Proposals must be substantially updated, including a description of the new activities and a justification of the new budget. The applicant must describe the extent to which the project met its performance objectives under its most recent grant. Applicants not previously funded may apply for a grant to begin a historical documents publishing project. These applications are considered with other proposals and will be judged by the same criteria as others in that competition.

All applicants should be aware that the application process is highly competitive. Applicants may apply for funding up to three years. Applicants should be aware that the Commission normally awards grants on an annual basis; subsequent funding is conditioned on previous years' project performance. Award amounts ordinarily range from $20,000 to $250,000 annually. The Commission expects to make as many as 35-40 grants in this category, for a total of up to $4,500,000.

In accordance with Federal regulations, the Commission reserves, for Federal Government purposes, a royalty-free, non-exclusive, and irrevocable license to reproduce, publish, or otherwise use the work and authorize others to reproduce, publish, or otherwise use the work that results from each grant. The Commission requires that grant recipients acknowledge NHPRC grant assistance in all publications and other products that result from its support.

Cost sharing is required. Cost sharing is the financial contribution the applicant pledges to the cost of a project. Cost sharing can include both direct and indirect expenses, in-kind contributions, non-Federal third-party contributions, and any income earned directly by the project. The Commission ordinarily provides no more than 50 per cent of total project costs for Publishing Historical Records projects.

Agency Contact
Applicants are encouraged to contact Timothy Connelly, 202-357-5301, or timothy.connelly@nara.gov at the NHPRC who may:

•Advise the applicant about the review process;
•Answer questions about what activities are eligible for support;
•Supply samples of successful applications;
•Read and comment on a preliminary draft. Applicants should submit a draft at least 2 months before the deadline.

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: PUBLISHING-201106
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Posted Date: Dec 15, 2010
Creation Date: Dec 15, 2010
Original Closing Date for Applications: Jun 09, 2011
Current Closing Date for Applications: Jun 09, 2011
Archive Date: Jul 09, 2011
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: $250,000
Award Floor: $20,000
CFDA Number(s): 89.003 -- National Historical Publications and Records Grants
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: Yes

http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=wpkcNB1KDHMkHPmmcJQvR3dKP0QGXQn7ZW3Dx3KqCQhPxzXN1Jp8!-1099244929?oppId=66933&mode=VIEW
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NARA Digitizing Historical Records 2011 CFDA 89.003

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), a part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), supports projects that promote the preservation and use of America's documentary heritage essential to understanding our democracy, history, and culture. The Commission seeks proposals that use cost-effective methods to digitize nationally significant historical record collections and make the digital versions freely available online. Applications are due June 9, 2011.


Projects must make use of existing holdings of historical repositories and consist of entire collections or series. The materials should already be available to the public at the archives and described so that projects can re-use existing information to serve as metadata for the digitized collection.

To make these projects as widely useful as possible for archives, historical repositories, and researchers, the applications must demonstrate:

• The national significance of the collections or records series to be digitized;
• An effective work flow that repurposes existing descriptive material, rather than creating new metadata about the records;
• Reasonable costs and standards for the project as well as sustainable preservation plans for the resulting digital records;

Well-designed plans that evaluate the use of the digitized materials and the effectiveness of the methods employed in digitizing and displaying the materials.

Projects may not use grant funds to create descriptive metadata; create edited transcriptions of the digitized materials; develop websites where people will have to pay a fee to view the images.

A grant normally is for 1 to 3 years and up to $150,000. The Commission expects to make up to 5 grants in this category, for a total of up to $400,000. The Commission requires that grant recipients acknowledge NHPRC grant assistance in all products that result from its support. Cost sharing is required. It is the financial contribution the applicant pledges to the cost of a project. Cost sharing can include both direct and indirect expenses, in-kind contributions, non-Federal third-party contributions, and any income earned directly by the project. The NHPRC will provide up to 50 percent of the total project costs.

Agency Contact
Applicants are encouraged to contact the NHPRC at 202-357-5010, or nhprc@nara.gov. Staff may:

•Advise the applicant about the review process;
•Answer questions about what activities are eligible for support;
•Supply samples of successful applications;
•Read and comment on a preliminary draft. Applicants should submit a draft at least 2 months before the deadline.

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: DIGITIZING-201106
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Posted Date: Dec 14, 2010
Creation Date: Dec 14, 2010
Original Closing Date for Applications: Jun 09, 2011
Current Closing Date for Applications: Jun 09, 2011
Archive Date: Jul 09, 2011
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: $150,000
Award Floor: $0
CFDA Number(s): 89.003 -- National Historical Publications and Records Grants
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: Yes

http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=wpkcNB1KDHMkHPmmcJQvR3dKP0QGXQn7ZW3Dx3KqCQhPxzXN1Jp8!-1099244929?oppId=66933&mode=VIEW

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NEH Preservation and Access Research and Development Grants CFDA 45.149

Preservation and Access Research and Development grants support projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. These challenges include the need to find better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to the nation’s cultural heritage—from fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to technological obsolescence—and to develop advanced modes of searching, discovering, and using such materials.
Applicants should define a specific problem, devise procedures and potential solutions, and explain how they would evaluate their projects and disseminate their findings. Project results must serve the needs of a significant segment of humanists. Small and mid-sized institutions that have never received an NEH grant are especially encouraged to apply. Applications are due May 19, 2011.

Eligible projects include the development of technical standards, best practices, and tools for preserving and creating access to humanities collections; the exploration of more effective scientific and technical methods of preserving humanities collections; the development of automated procedures and computational tools to integrate, analyze, and repurpose humanities data in disparate online resources; and the investigation and testing of new ways of providing digital access to humanities materials that are not easily digitized using current methods. NEH especially encourages applications that address the following topics: Digital Preservation: how to preserve digital humanities materials, including born-digital materials, for which there is no analog counterpart; Recorded Sound and Moving Image Collections: how to preserve and increase access to the record of the twentieth century contained in these formats; and Preventive Conservation: how to protect and slow the deterioration of humanities collections through the use of sustainable preservation strategies.


Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: 20110519-PR
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Posted Date: Feb 25, 2011
Creation Date: Feb 22, 2011
Original Closing Date for Applications: May 19, 2011
Current Closing Date for Applications: May 19, 2011
Archive Date: June 18, 2011
Funding Instrument Type: Grant
Category of Funding Activity: Humanities (see "Cultural Affairs" in CFDA)
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards: 5
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling: $350,000
Award Floor: $0
CFDA Number(s): 45.149 -- Promotion of the Humanities_Division of Preservation and Access
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No

http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=wCP5NBvVCLjnXJlJ38Bn11040BnTBBZgfPTqc472MV0KRqGp2r93!-1099244929?oppId=72953&mode=VIEW

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NEA Challenge America Fast-Track, FY 2012 CFDA 45.024

The Challenge America Fast-Track category offers support primarily to small and mid-sized organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations -- those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability. Each applicant must present a focused, distinct project that reflects one of four eligible project types – cultural tourism, public art, guest artists, and civic design. Grants are for $10,000 each and require a one-to-one match.

Applications must be submitted via Grants.gov, the federal government’s online application system, no later than May 26, 2011. Applicants will receive notification within approximately six months for projects starting after January 1, 2012.

If an organization seeks FY 2012 funding through the Fast-Track category, it may not submit another application this year to the Art Works category. For more information, visit the Eligibility section of the NEA Web site.

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Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions

Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized institutions, such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, arts and cultural organizations, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities, improve their ability to preserve and care for their humanities collections. These may include special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine arts, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, and historical objects. Applicants must draw on the knowledge of consultants whose preservation skills and experience are related to the types of collections and the nature of the activities that are the focus of their projects.

Small and mid-sized institutions that have never received an NEH grant are especially encouraged to apply. Applications are due May 3, 2011

Within the conservation field, for example, conservators usually specialize in the care of specific types of collections, such as objects, paper, or paintings. Applicants should therefore choose a conservator whose specialty is appropriate for the nature of their collections. Similarly, when assessing the preservation needs of archival holdings, applicants must seek a consultant specifically knowledgeable about archives and preservation. Because the organization and the preservation of archival collections must be approached in tandem, an archival consultant should also provide advice about the management and processing needs of such holdings as part of a preservation assessment that includes long-term plans for the arrangement and description of archival collections.

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: 20110503-PG
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Posted Date: Jan 24, 2011
Creation Date: Jan 21, 2011
Original Closing Date for Applications: May 03, 2011
Current Closing Date for Applications: May 03, 2011
Archive Date: Jun 02, 2011
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: $6,000
Award Floor: $0
CFDA Number: 45.149 -- Promotion of the Humanities_Division of Preservation and Access
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No

http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=ZH3zN3LRZQWr9yLg2HLkhgk2GKrwyrQXXKrjTcf5hHn01SZN7pQw!-1027063547?oppId=65976&mode=VIEW
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Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Opportunity for Assistance CFDA: 15.935

The purpose of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail is to collaborate with various and diverse partners to identify an protect the historical, natural, cultural, sacred, and recreational resources of the route of the Corps of Discovery and associated American Indian Nations; interpret those resources; educate the public on their significance and value; and provide appropriate opportunities for their public use and enjoyment. Applications are due by March 25, 2011
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