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P23AS00471: FY2023 Historic Preservation Fund- African American Civil Rights- History Grants

Closed Closed November 1, 2023 Opportunity P23AS00471 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$75,000
• Award floor$15,000
• Total funding$24.0 million
• 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 $75,000 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 from transatlantic slave trade forward. The program funds history and preservation projects using the NPS report, Civil Rights in America, A Framework for Identifying Significant Sites, as a guide in determining the appropriateness of proposed projects and properties. AACR grants are funded by the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF), administered by the NPS, and will fund a broad range of history projects including survey and planning, research and documentation, interpretation and education, and collections conservation. 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 P23AS00472 is for physical preservation of historic sites only; P23AS00471 is for historical research/documentation/survey/nomination projects. Please ensure you apply under the correct opportunity number for your project.FY2023 Public Law 117-328 provides $24,000,000 for the AACR Grant Program.

Category: Arts, Humanities, Other.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Agencies often post the same opportunity again under a new number, so check the program's notices on Grants.gov and the similar open grants below.

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