Inspire! Grants for Small Museums (IMLS)

• Published date: 03 September 2020
• Date: 03 September 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31264

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Grants alert (cont.)

Inspire! Grants for Small Museums (IMLS)

Scope: The Institute for Museum and Library Services

seeks applications for the FY2021 Inspire! Grants for

Small Museums announcement to help small museums

implement projects that address priorities identied in

their strategic plans.

Deadline: Nov. 16, 2020.

Funds: $1 million total for up to 25 awards ranging from

$5,000 to $50,000.

Eligibility: A unit of state, local or Native American tribal

government or a private, nonprot organization that has

tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code and

is located in one of the 50 states of the United States of

America, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth

of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American

Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana

Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the

Federated States of Micronesia or the Republic of Palau.

See the announcement for complete details.

Areas: IMLS said Inspire! has three project categories:

Lifelong Learning, Community Anchors, and Collections

Stewardship and Access.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# IGSM-FY21

Museum Grants for African American History

and Culture (IMLS)

Scope: The Institute for Museum and Library Services

seeks applications for the FY2021 Museum Grants for

African American History and Culture announcement to

support projects that nurture museum professionals, build

institutional capacity, and increase access to museum

and archival collections at African American museums

and historically Black colleges and universities.

Deadline: Nov. 16, 2020.

Funds: $2.73 million total for up to 22 awards ranging

from $5,000 to $250,000.

Eligibility: A unit of state, local or Native American tribal

government or a private, nonprot organization that has

tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code and

is located in one of the 50 states of the United States of

America, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth

of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American

Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana

Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the

Federated States of Micronesia or the Republic of Palau.

See the announcement for complete details.

Areas: IMLS said funding will support projects

including but not limited to: cataloging, inventorying,

documenting and registering collections; digitization

of collections designed to enhance outreach, expand

access or improve collections management; developing

collection plans, interpretive plans or strategic plans

using consultants, researchers and other sources of

professional expertise; implementing recommendations

or action plans from planning activities; exhibition

development, design and fabrication; and interpretive

and educational programs, product development and

delivery; among many others.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# AAHC-FY21

Museums Empowered (IMLS)

Scope: The Institute for Museum and Library Services

seeks applications for the FY2021 Museums Empowered

announcement to support a special initiative of the

Museums for America grant program with the goal

of strengthening the ability of an individual museum

to serve its public through professional development

activities that cut across various departments to

generate systemic change within the museum.

Deadline: Nov. 16, 2020.

Funds: $3 million total for up to 20 awards ranging from

$5,000 to $250,000.

Eligibility: A unit of state, local or Native American tribal

government or a private, nonprot organization that has

tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code and

is located in one of the 50 states of the United States of

America, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth

of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American

Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana

Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the

Federated States of Micronesia or the Republic of Palau.

See the announcement for complete details.

Areas: IMLS said Museums Empowered has four

project categories: Digital Technology, to empower

museum staff to fully explore, understand, adopt and

optimize the use of digital technology in museums;

Diversity and Inclusion, to empower museum staff to

develop cultural competency and support museum

relevancy in their communities; Evaluation, to empower

museum staff to use formative and summative

evaluation of programs, practices and products that

can help the museum yield indicators and measurable

outcomes; and Organizational Management, to

empower museum staff to learn best practices in

organizational management, strategic thinking,

innovation and managing change.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# ME-FY21

Harnessing the Data Revolution: Coordination

Hub (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Harnessing the Data Revolution

(HDR): Coordination Hub announcement for a

nationwide HDR Coordination Hub, called HDR Central.

Deadline: Nov. 12, 2020.

Funds: $2 million total.

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