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 Conservation Assessment Program Deadline: December 3, 2012 Program Contact: Sara Gonzales Phone: (202) 233-0800 E-mail: sgonzales@heritagepreservation.org AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS Museum Assessment Program Deadline: July 1, 2012 or December 1, 2012 Program Contacts: Jill Connors-Joyner, Assistant Director Lauren Silberman, Coordinator Phone: (202) 289-9118 Email: map@aam-us.org INSTITUTE FOR MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES Museum Grants for African American History and Culture Deadline: January 15, 2013 Program Overview: Museum Grants for African American History and Culture are intended to enhance institutional capacity and sustainability through professional training, technical assistance, internships, outside expertise, and other tools. Successful proposals will focus on one or more of the following three goals: (1) developing or strengthening knowledge, skills, and other expertise of current staff at African American museums; (2) attracting and retaining professionals with the skills needed to strengthen African American museums; and (3) attracting new staff to African American museum practice and providing them with the expertise needed to sustain them in the museum field. Program Contacts: Mark Isaksen, Senior Program Officer Phone: (202) 653-4667 E-mail: misaksen@imls.gov Twinet G. Kimbrough, Program Specialists Phone: (202) 653-4703 E-mail: tkimbrough@imls.gov Museums for America Deadline: January 15, 2013 Program Overview: Museums for America (MFA) grants support activities that strengthen museums as active resources for lifelong learning, as important institutions in the establishment of livable communities, and as good stewards of the nation’s collections. MFA grants can fund both new and ongoing museum activities and programs. Examples include planning, managing and conserving collections, improving public access, training, conducting programmatic research, school and public programming, producing exhibitions, and integrating new or upgraded technologies into your operations. Program Contacts: Connie Cox Bodner, Senior Museum Program Officer Phone: (202) 653-4636 Email: cbodner@imls.gov Sandra Narva, Senior Museum Program Officer Phone: (202) 653-4634 Email: snarva@imls.gov Steven Shwartzman, Senior Museum Program Officer Phone: (202) 653-4641 Email: sshwartzman@imls.gov National Leadership Grants for Museums Deadline: January 15, 2013 Program Overview: National Leadership Grants (NLG) support projects that have the potential to elevate museum and library practice. Successful proposals will have national impact and generate results—new tools, research, models, services, practices, or alliances—that can be widely adapted or replicated to extend the benefit of federal investment. Program Contacts: Mark Isaksen, Senior Museum Program Officer Phone: (202) 653-4667 Email: misaksen@imls.gov Helen Wechsler, Senior Museum Program Officer Phone: (202) 653-4779 E-mail: hwechsler@imls.gov National Medal for Museum and Library Service Deadline: December 15, 2011 Program Overview: The National Award for Museum and Library Service honors outstanding institutions that make significant and exceptional contributions to their communities. Selected institutions demonstrate extraordinary and innovative approaches to public service, exceeding the expected levels of community outreach and core programs generally associated with its services. Program Contact for Libraries: Michele Farrell, Senior Program Officer Phone: (202) 653-4656 E-mail: mfarrell@imls.gov Program Contact for Museums: Steven Shwartzman, Senior Program Officer Phone: (202) 653-4641 E-mail: sshwartzman@imls.gov Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums Deadline: February 1, 2012 Program Overview: The Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums are a special funding opportunity within the IMLS National Leadership Grants program. These small grants encourage libraries, museums, and archives to test and evaluate specific innovations in the ways they operate and the services they provide. Sparks Grants support the deployment, testing, and evaluation of promising and groundbreaking new tools, products, services, or organizational practices. You may propose activities or approaches that involve risk, as long as the risk is balanced by significant potential for improvement in the ways libraries and museums serve their communities. 21st Century Museum Professional March 15, 2012 Program Overview: 21st Century Museum Professional Grants fund a broad range of activities, including the development and implementation of classes, seminars, and workshops; resources to support leadership development; collection, assessment, development and/or dissemination of information that leads to better museum operations; activities that strengthen the use of contemporary technology tools to deliver programs and services; support for the enhancement of pre-professional training programs; and organizational support for the development of internship and fellowship programs. Program Contacts: Mark Isaksen, Senior Program Officer, (202) 653-4667 E-mail: misaksen@imls.gov Twinet G. Kimbrough, Program Specialists, (202) 653-4703 E-mail: tkimbrough@imls.gov NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS www.nea.gov NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES www.neh.gov America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation and Planning Grants January 11, 2012 Program Overview: America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations Grants support traveling or long-term museum exhibitions, library-based projects, interpretation of historic places or areas, interpretive Web sites, or other project formats that creatively engage audiences in exploring humanities ideas and questions. Program Contact: Division of Public Programs at 202-606-8269 E-mail: publicpgms@neh.gov |
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