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P22AS00648: FY2022 Historic Preservation Fund- African American Civil Rights- Preservation Grants

Closed Closed November 8, 2022 Opportunity P22AS00648 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$750,000
• Award floor$15,000
• Total funding$21.8 million
• Expected awards100
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeGrant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to nonprofits, colleges and universities, state and local governments and tribes.

Eligible applicants are State governments, local governments, nonprofits, educational institutions, and Federally Recognized Indian Tribes, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiian Organizations as defined by 54 USC 300300. Grants are not available for sites or collections owned by the NPS.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid awards averaged $324,114; this notice allows up to $750,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (62% over five years) went to state and local governments.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The National Park Service’s (NPS) African American Civil Rights Grant Program (AACR) will document, interpret, and preserve the sites and stories of the full history of the African American struggle to gain equal rights as citizens from the transatlantic slave trade forward. The NPS 2008 report, Civil Rights in America, A Framework for Identifying Significant Sites, will serve as a guide in determining the appropriateness of proposed projects and properties. AACR Preservation Grants are funded by the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF), administered by the NPS, and will fund a broad range of preservation projects for historic sites including: architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation plans, and physical preservation to structures. Grants are awarded through a competitive process and do not require non-Federal match. There are separate funding announcements for physical preservation projects and for historical research/documentation projects. Funding announcement P22AS00648 is for physical preservation of historic sites only; P22AS00647 is for historical research/documentation/survey/nomination projects. Please ensure you apply under the correct opportunity number for your project. Perhaps also of interest is the History of Equal Rights grant program under P22AS00644 for physical preservation only of sites involved in the struggle for All American’s civil rights and closes September 13, 2022.FY2022 Public Law 117-103 provides $21.75 million for the AACR Grant Program.

Category: Arts, Humanities, Other.

Applying now

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