Hi Laura. I'm gearing up for a new semester and plan to have my students
write grants. The Illinois Association of Museums has grants for small
museums. One of the categories is Conservation Support. The grant is up to
$500 for equipment or paying a conservator. The equipment requires a 1 to1
match in dollars. The conservator requires a 1 to 1 match in either dollars
or in-kind donations. I'm not sure what IAM means by in-kind donations, but
my question is, could a small museum use this kind of a grant to get
recommendations from a conservator about preservation needs, and then use
it in the next NEH cycle to apply for a preservation grant? Thanks.
Pat Miller
P.S. are there any major changes in the upcoming preservation grants that I
should know about?

At 02:21 PM 1/29/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>New guidelines for the National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation
>Assistance Grants are now available.  May 15, 2003 is the receipt deadline
>for projects that would begin no earlier than January 2004.  Preservation
>Assistance Grants of up to $5000 help small and mid-size
>institutions--libraries, museums, and historical societies, town and county
>records offices, archival repositories, community colleges, and underserved
>departments and units within colleges and universities and other larger
>institutions--improve their ability to preserve and care for their
>humanities collections.  Institutions may request support for the following
>activities: 1) General preservation assessments that will help an
>institution identify its overall preservation needs and develop a
>long-range, prioritized preservation plan to address those needs; 2)
>Consultations with preservation professionals to address a specific
>preservation issue, need, or problem; 3) Attendance at preservation
>workshops; and 4) Purchase of storage furniture, preservation supplies, and
>environmental monitoring equipment.
>
>The guidelines may be downloaded from NEH's web site:
>http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pag.html
>
>Call NEH's Division of Preservation and Access for more information at
>202/606-8570.
>
>Laura J. Word
>Senior Program Officer
>Division of Preservation and Access
>National Endowment for the Humanities
>1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Room 411
>Washington, D.C.  20506
>202/606-8570
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