Pennsylvania grant & resource directory - pa house
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FEDERAL PROGRAMS<br />
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES<br />
www.neh.gov (202) 606 8309 Grants info: http://www.neh.gov/<strong>grant</strong>s/<strong>grant</strong>s.html<br />
GRANT/LOAN<br />
National Digital News<strong>pa</strong>per Program: Request for<br />
Proposals (CFDA No. 45.149) – NEH is soliciting proposals<br />
from institutions to <strong>pa</strong>rtici<strong>pa</strong>te in the National Digital<br />
News<strong>pa</strong>per Program (NDNP). Ultimately, over a period<br />
of approximately 20 years, NDNP will create a national,<br />
digital <strong>resource</strong> of historically significant news<strong>pa</strong>pers from<br />
all the states and U.S. territories published between 1836<br />
and 1922. This searchable database will be permanently<br />
maintained at the Library of Congress (LC) and be freely<br />
accessible via the Internet. [See the beta prototype Website,<br />
Chronicling America: Historic American News<strong>pa</strong>pers at<br />
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/.] An accom<strong>pa</strong>nying<br />
national news<strong>pa</strong>per <strong>directory</strong> of bibliographic and holdings<br />
information on the Website will direct users to news<strong>pa</strong>per<br />
titles available in all types of formats. LC will also digitize<br />
and contribute to the NDNP database a significant number of<br />
news<strong>pa</strong>per <strong>pa</strong>ges drawn from its own collections during the<br />
course of this <strong>pa</strong>rtnership between NEH and the Library.<br />
DEADLINE / REGULATIONS<br />
Fiscal Year 2011 Deadline – November 2,<br />
2010<br />
Grant Amount – Up to $200,000<br />
Grant Period – 2 years<br />
Program questions should be directed to<br />
NEH’s Division of Preservation and Access<br />
at: (202) 606-8570, e-mail: preservation@<br />
neh.gov.<br />
http://www.neh.gFov/<strong>grant</strong>s/guidelines/<br />
ndnp.html<br />
Preservation and Access Education and Training (CFDA<br />
45.149) – Grants help the staff of cultural institutions, large<br />
and small, obtain the knowledge and skills needed to serve<br />
as effective stewards of humanities collections. Grants<br />
also support educational programs that pre<strong>pa</strong>re the next<br />
generation of conservators and preservation professionals, as<br />
well as projects that introduce the staff of cultural institutions<br />
to recent improvements in preservation and access practices.<br />
Preservation and Access Research and Development<br />
(CFDA No. 45.149) – Grants support projects that<br />
address major challenges in preserving or providing access<br />
to humanities collections and <strong>resource</strong>s. These challenges<br />
include the need to find better ways to preserve materials of<br />
critical importance to the nation’s cultural heritage – from<br />
fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog recordings and<br />
digital assets subject to technological obsolescence – and to<br />
develop advanced modes of searching, discovering, and using<br />
such materials.<br />
Previous Fiscal Year Deadline – July 1, 2010<br />
Grant Amount – $50,000 to $250,000<br />
Grant Period – 2 years<br />
Program questions should be directed to<br />
NEH’s Division of Preservation and Access<br />
at: (202) 606-8570, e-mail: preservation@<br />
neh.gov.<br />
http://www.neh.gov/<strong>grant</strong>s/guidelines/pet.<br />
html<br />
Previous Fiscal Year Deadline – July 1, 2010<br />
Grant Amount – Up $350,000<br />
Grant Period – Up to 3 years<br />
Program questions should be directed to<br />
NEH’s Division of Preservation and Access<br />
at: (202) 606-8570, e-mail: preservation@<br />
neh.gov.<br />
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PA Grant & Resource Directory
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