Applications are invited for Federal Save America’s Treasures Grants. At this time, Congress had not completed the appropriations for the Department of the Interior. Grants cannot be awarded unless funds are appropriated.
Save America’s Treasures grants are available for preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant intellectual and cultural artifacts and collections and on nationally significant historic properties. The grants are administered by the National Park Service in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Contact information for these agencies is located at the bottom of this message.
Grants are awarded through a competitive process and require a dollar-for-dollar, non-Federal match, which can be cash, donated services, or use of equipment. The grant and the non-Federal match must be expended during the grant period (generally 2 to 3 years) to execute the project.
Applications must be received by no later than 5:00 pm Eastern Standard time, Tuesday, February 1, 2005. This is not a postmark deadline.
Who May Apply
- Federal Agencies funded by the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.
- Other Federal agencies collaborating with a nonprofit partner to preserve the historic properties or collections owned by the Federal agency may submit applications through the nonprofit partner.
- Nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c), U.S organizations.
- Units of state or local government.
- Federally-recognized Indian Tribes.
- Historic properties and collections associated with active religious organizations are eligible to apply for grants. They must meet the Selection Criteria and Review Criteria, including national significance.
What Is Funded
- Preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant intellectual and cultural collections and nationally significant historic properties. Intellectual and cultural artifacts and collections include artifacts, collections, documents, sculpture, and other works of art (hereinafter collections). Historic properties include historic districts, buildings, sites, structures and objects (hereinafter historic properties).
What Is Not Funded
- Acquisition (i.e. purchase in fee simple or interest) of collections or historic properties.
- Survey or inventory of historic properties or cataloging of collections.
- Long-term maintenance or curatorial work beyond the grant period.
- Interpretive or training programs.
- Reconstruction of historic properties (i.e. recreating all or a significant portion of a historic property that no longer exists).
- Moving historic properties or work on historic properties that have been moved.
- Construction of new buildings.
- Historic structure reports and collection condition assessments, unless they are one component of a larger project to implement the results of these studies by performing work recommended by the studies.
- Cash reserves, endowments or revolving funds. Funds must be expended within the grant period, which is generally 2 to 3 years, and may not be used to create an endowment or revolving fund or otherwise spent over many years.
- Costs of fund-raising campaigns.
- Costs of work performed prior to announcement of award.
- For Federal agency grantees — Federal salaries, agency overhead, or administrative costs.
For Additional Information
Applicants can address questions to and obtain electronic versions of application material from the following agencies.
For Collections Projects:
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Institute of Museum and Library Services
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