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Connecting to Collections
Statewide Implementation Grants
Five Statewide Implementation Grants have already been awarded – in California, Connecticut, Delaware, North Carolina, and Rhode Island. If your collecting institution is located in one of those states and would like to take part in the Statewide Implementation Grant, please click here to learn more about the grant in your state.
Guidelines for the current fiscal year are made available approximately 90 days before the grant deadline. Until that time, guidelines from the previous year are available for your reference, but you must use the current fiscal year’s guidelines when you apply.
2010 Grant
Program Guidelines (PDF, 525 KB) and Grants.gov
Instructions
2011 Deadline: December 15,
2010
2011 Grant Amount: Up to $250,000
2011 Grant Period: Up to two years
Program Contacts:
Steve Shwartzman, Senior Program Officer
Phone: 202/653-4641
E-mail: sshwartzman@imls.gov
Mark Feitl, Interim Grant Program Specialist
Phone: 202/653-4635
E-mail: mfeitl@imls.gov
Program Overview
Statewide Implementation Grants, an important component of the Connecting to
Collections initiative, will fund a limited number of grants to implement the
plans or models created with the Statewide Planning grants, addressing issues
identified in the Heritage Health Index, to:
- provide safe conditions for their collections;
- develop an emergency plan;
- assign responsibility for collections care; and
- work together to increase public and private support for, and raise public
awareness about, collections care.
These grants are designed to encourage people and institutions in
each state to cooperate on a plan that will benefit all. Project activities should
accommodate needs of institutions in each state; they do not need to address all
four recommendations. Each state should indicate its most pressing needs, report
what has already been done, name the organizations and people to be involved in
the planning process, and outline specific next steps.
Eligibility
Building on a successful Statewide Planning Grant, will include multiple
partnerships among representatives of libraries, museums, archives, statewide service
organizations, and state agencies. Institutions that fulfill the general criteria may apply.
*Click
here to learn more about A Public Trust at Risk: The
Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America’s
Collections, a landmark study conducted by Heritage Preservation
in partnership with IMLS.
Press Release: IMLS Announces 2010 Awards of Connecting to Collections Statewide Planning and
Implementation Grants, April 9, 2010. Read more.
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