READY OR NOT DISASTER PREPAREDNESS GRANT PROGRAM

The partner organization will work with the State Library to design and implement a grant program that provides local archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, tribal nations and other cultural heritage organizations with funding to implement disaster preparedness plans. The Applicant’s role and responsibilities are as follows: 1. Creating a grant application, including a timeline, funding levels, grantee requirements, and allowable expenses 2. Identifying and conducting outreach to organizations stewarding cultural resources to raise awareness of the grant program 3. Assisting and stewarding organizations through the grant application process 4. Scoring applications and making recommendations to the Library on which organizations to fund and how much funding to award them 5. Ensuring that the funds requested are reasonable and the funded items and activities are necessary to implement the disaster preparedness plans 6. Tracking grantees’ activities and expenditures over the time of the grant period Project end date is March 2025. Applicants should have proven experience with: • Conducting preservation needs assessments • Conducting digital preservation assessments • Conducting collection and item level assessments • Project planning and management experience with state, federal or private funding programs • Grant administration • Working with local archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, tribal nations and other cultural heritage organizations

Eligibility

• Programs related to museum
• Programs related to library

Award details

Applications close on June 8, 2023.

Categories

Arts Culture · Disaster Recovery