Grant program guidelines for the current fiscal year are now available:

Access FY 2012 Grant program Guidelines Online

Read more about Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services on the IMLS Web site.

Webinars with Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Grants Staff
IMLS staff are available by phone and through e-mail to discuss general issues relating to Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services grants. We also invite you to participate in one of two pre-application Web conferences to learn more about the program, ask questions, and listen to the questions and comments of other participants.

The Web conference schedule for the FY12 Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services program is as follows:

February 22, 2012, at 3:00-4:00 PM Eastern Time

Please note that the schedule is subject to change. Visit this page a week before the Webinar to confirm the date and time, as well as receive information on how to connect to the session.

The Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services program promotes enhanced learning and innovation within museums and museum related organizations, such as cultural centers. The program provides opportunities for Native American tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations to sustain heritage, culture, and knowledge by strengthened museum services in the following areas:

• Programming: Services and activities that support the educational mission of museums and museum-related organizations

• Professional development: Education or training that builds skills, knowledge, or other professional capacity for persons, either paid or volunteer, who provide or manage museum service activities

• Enhancement of museum services: Support for activities that enable and improve museum services

Eligible applicants are

• federally recognized Indian tribes,

• Alaskan Native Villages and corporations, and,

• organizations that primarily serve and represent Native Hawaiians.

Entities such as museums, libraries, schools, tribal colleges, or departments of education are not eligible applicants, although they may be involved in the administration of the program and their staff may serve as project directors, in partnership with eligible applicants. Please see fuller eligibility criteria within the guidelines.