Opportunity Information: Apply for 20171205 PF
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections (SCHC) program is a discretionary grant opportunity designed to help cultural institutions preserve humanities collections over the long term by funding sustainable, preventive conservation work. The central aim is to slow ongoing deterioration, extend the usable life of collections, and strengthen institutional resilience so organizations are better prepared to anticipate, withstand, and recover from natural or human-caused disasters. The program is geared toward the real-world preservation pressures faced by libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations that hold large, varied, and often vulnerable materials used in research, teaching, public programming, and lifelong learning.
SCHC focuses on preventive conservation rather than item-by-item treatment, meaning it supports improvements to the conditions and systems that protect entire collections. This includes strategies to better manage relative humidity and temperature, control light exposure and airborne pollutants, upgrade storage furniture and protective enclosures, and reduce risks from theft, fire, flooding, and other emergencies. Because these kinds of measures can be expensive and energy-intensive if approached traditionally, the program emphasizes solutions that balance preservation effectiveness with cost control and environmental impact. In practice, this often means projects that improve building and collection environments in ways that also reduce energy use, limit reliance on fossil fuels, and align with institutional sustainability or green initiatives, all while keeping collections accessible for humanities use.
A key expectation is that proposed work is grounded in sound preservation planning. Applicants at either the planning stage or the implementation stage are expected to have completed basic preservation planning already and to clearly connect the proposed sustainable strategies to priorities identified in existing preservation plans or collection management plans. NEH recognizes that there is no one-size-fits-all approach: appropriate strategies depend on the types of materials held (for example, paper-based collections versus audiovisual media or artifacts), the characteristics of the building envelope, and local climate conditions. Because of that complexity, the program strongly encourages interdisciplinary collaboration, typically bringing together institutional staff with outside expertise. Project teams often include combinations of architects, engineers, facilities managers, conservators, conservation scientists, curators, and archivists to ensure that solutions are technically sound, feasible to maintain, and responsive to collection needs.
The opportunity is open to a wide range of eligible applicants, including state, county, and local governments; special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; and nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education institutions). The funding instrument is a grant under the humanities funding category (CFDA 45.149). For the referenced posting, the application deadline was December 5, 2017, and the maximum award amount listed was up to $350,000. Overall, SCHC is meant to help repositories make smart, sustainable upgrades that protect humanities collections at scale while improving long-term operational resilience and responsible resource use.Apply for 20171205 PF
- The National Endowment for the Humanities in the humanities sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.149.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2017-10-04.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-12-05. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $350,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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