SAVE AMERICA'S TREASURES GRANTS
2010 Guidelines are now available!
DEADLINE: May 21, 2010 at 11:59 PM EST 

[NOTE: 2010 SAT grant funds are not affected by the President's FY 2011
budget request that eliminates the SAT program. Apply now!]
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SAVE AMERICA'S TREASURES GRANTS ARE AVAILABLE for preservation and/or
conservation work on nationally significant intellectual and cultural
artifacts and nationally significant historic structures and sites.
Grants are administered by the National Park Service (NPS) in
partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the Institute of Museum and
Library Services (IMLS).

ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES INCLUDE: Conservation treatment and preservation of
nationally significant intellectual and cultural collections. This
includes documents, photographs, books, and works of art on paper.

AWARD LEVELS: $25,000 to $700,000 on a 1:1 matching basis.

SELECTION CRITERIA: Collections must be of national significance, i.e.,
those that are associated with the broad patterns of United States
history; or are associated with the lives of persons who have national
significance in U.S. history; or that represent great historic,
cultural, artistic, or scholarly ideas of the American people. See NPS
for guidelines.

APPLICATION GUIDELINES are available at
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/treasures/application.htm

All applications must be submitted through GRANTS.GOV.
Remember to allow plenty of time for registration!

Please discuss your collections project idea with the staff of one of
the SAT partner agencies:
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, 
Michael McLaughlin, 202-682-5457, [log in to unmask]
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES, 
Laura Word, 202-606-8570, [log in to unmask]
INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES, 
Christine Henry, 202-653-4674, [log in to unmask] 

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The Northeast Document Conservation Center can help:
NEDCC can generate estimates and assist with the descriptions of the
condition of your collections. 

TO DISCUSS A GRANT PROJECT with NEDCC, contact:
Walter Newman, Director of Paper Conservation, [log in to unmask] or
Deb Wender, Director of Book Conservation, [log in to unmask]

FOR MORE INFORMATION about NEDCC, visit www.nedcc.org

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To view recent posts, go to: http://www.nedcc.org/about/newsletter.php  
To join: Visit nedcc.org and click on the green sign-up button. Welcome!

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