Opportunity Information: Apply for PRELIM 201801
Access to Historical Records: Major Initiatives (Preliminary) is a discretionary grant opportunity from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), part of the National Archives and Records Administration. The program is aimed at projects that make a meaningful, field-level impact on how the public discovers, accesses, and uses major historical records collections. It is intentionally broad about formats and will consider work involving paper documents, photographs, born-digital materials, and analog audio or moving image recordings, as long as the end result substantially improves access and use.
The kinds of activities NHPRC is looking to support include large-scale digitization and free online public access to historical records held by a single institution, efforts that provide practical access to born-digital records, and the creation of new virtual collections that bring together related materials from multiple repositories into one freely available online resource. The program also welcomes proposals focused on building or piloting new tools, platforms, workflows, or methods that help users find and work with historical records more effectively. Collaboration is strongly encouraged, especially when it connects collections spread across different institutions. Proposals tend to be more competitive when they address a clearly demonstrated need in the archives and records field and when the approach is replicable and scalable, meaning other organizations could adapt the methods or infrastructure rather than the work being a one-off solution. NHPRC also signals that public engagement matters: applicants are encouraged to involve the public in the project in concrete ways, rather than treating access as only a back-end technical task.
Awards are designed for substantial initiatives. Grant periods can run from one to three years, with NHPRC funding requests ranging from $100,000 to $350,000 per award. The agency anticipated making up to five grants in this category, with up to $1,000,000 available in total. Funded projects were expected to begin no earlier than January 1, 2019. Recipients must acknowledge NHPRC support in publications and products that result from the grant.
Eligibility is limited to established public-serving entities, including nonprofit organizations and institutions, colleges and universities (public or private institutions of higher education), state and local government agencies, and federally acknowledged or state recognized Native American tribes or groups. The funding model requires cost sharing: NHPRC will provide no more than 50 percent of total project costs for this Major Initiatives category, so applicants must cover at least the other half through a mix of cash and allowable contributions. The applicant share can include direct expenses, indirect expenses counted as cost share, in-kind contributions, non-federal third-party contributions, and project-generated income. A key budgeting constraint is that NHPRC funds cannot be used for indirect costs under the cited federal regulation (2 CFR 2600.101), so any indirect costs have to be covered on the applicant side and shown as part of the match.
There are also standard federal administrative requirements. Applicant organizations must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) before submitting and must keep that registration active through the application and award process. The application must include a valid DUNS number (noting that this opportunity’s instructions reflect the requirements in effect at the time of posting). Applications are submitted through Grants.gov, and the notice directs applicants to review NHPRC rules under the “Administering an NHPRC Grant” guidance and to check the agency’s “What we do and do not fund” page, because proposals consisting entirely of ineligible activities will be rejected without review. The announcement also notes that applicants should look at the separate Access to Historical Records Archival Projects program, which has different requirements and award sizes, to make sure they are pursuing the right track.
The application process is explicitly two-phased. In Phase One, applicants submit a preliminary proposal package through Grants.gov consisting of the SF-424 (Application for Federal Domestic Assistance), a completed NHPRC budget form, and a project narrative limited to five pages, due January 18, 2018. Those preliminary proposals undergo peer and staff review, and NHPRC then invites a subset of the most promising applicants to Phase Two by April 16, 2018. In Phase Two, invited applicants submit a full proposal under the complete Major Initiatives announcement through Grants.gov, due July 11, 2018. During both phases, applicants are allowed to consult program staff, specifically the Director of the Access Program (Alex Lorch) and the Director for Technology Initiatives (Nancy Melley), which can be helpful for clarifying fit, feasibility, and compliance expectations before investing in a full submission.Apply for PRELIM 201801
- The National Archives and Records Administration in the humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Access to Historical Records: Major Initiatives (Preliminary)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 89.003.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jul 14, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jan 18, 2018. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $350,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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