NEH On the Road Cooperative Agreement

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	Federal Grant Title:	NEH On the Road Cooperative Agreement
	CFDA Number:	45.164
	CFDA Description:	Promotion of the Humanities_Public Programs
	Federal Agency Name:	National Endowment for the Humanities
	Category of Funding Activity:	Humanities
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	20110706-GX
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Grant
	Posted Date:	Apr 27, 2011
	Creation Date:	Apr 27, 2011
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Jul 06, 2011
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Jul 06, 2011
	Archive Date:	Aug 05, 2011
	Expected Number of Awards:	Information not provided
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	2,100,000
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	Information not provided
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: State governments
County governments
City or township governments
Special district 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
Additional Information on Eligibility: Information not provided
Grant Description: Through its regular grantmaking activities the Division of Public Programs funds exhibitions at museums and historic sites throughout the country. NEH on the Road is a special initiative designed to create wider access to the stories, ideas, and themes explored in these exhibitions. First implemented in 2005, it offers smaller, object-based, low-security versions of some of these exhibitions, which circulate to small and mid-sized museums nationwide. The program now offers a roster of eight exhibitions that deal with a variety of subjects and reach dozens of venues each year. This Request for Proposals seeks applications for the ongoing maintenance of the existing exhibitions, conversion to a rotating core of six exhibitions, the creation of replacement exhibitions as the existing ones are retired from use, and the management of all logistical details connected to their circulation for a three-year period, starting in July 2012 and ending in June 2015. These logistics include (as detailed below) publicizing the exhibitions; application processing; managing bookings; preparing programming materials, training, and resources for the host venues; and arranging for shipping, insurance, storage, repair, maintenance, and evaluation of the exhibitions. All NEH on the Road exhibitions must adhere to the following parameters: 1) the reconfigured exhibitions are primarily based on artifacts loaned from the original show; 2) they retain the humanities content and the intellectual coherence of the original exhibition; 3) they do not exceed 2,000 square feet in size; 4) they are designed to allow for easy use (e.g., uncrating, installation, etc.) by smaller museums; 5) they include materials that facilitate public programming on the themes of the exhibition; and 6) costs to the venues hosting the exhibitions will not exceed $1,000 for booking and $1,000 for shipping. The goal of this program is to provide exhibitions at low cost to museums that would not otherwise be able to participate in an NEH project, partly to provide resources to those museums, partly to broaden the reach of NEH-funded exhibitions, and partly to publicize the work of NEH nationally. The target venues for the program are mid-sized museums that are dispersed throughout the nation, have annual operating budgets between $250,000 and $1,000,000, are located in communities of fewer than 300,000 people, have approximately 2,000 square feet of available temporary exhibition space, can offer acceptable security and environmental controls for low-security exhibitions, and can provide additional public humanities programming on themes surrounding one of the exhibitions. Venues typically host an NEH on the Road exhibition for seven weeks (excluding shipping and installation time) and receive materials that can be used to create public programs based on the exhibitions themes and ideas. NEH provides grants directly to the venues to help defray these program costs; venues apply directly to NEH for these funds. A typical NEH on the Road exhibition reaches five venues per year. To date approximately 150 bookings have occurred, and existing shows are fully booked through 2011. An exhibitions life span is normally four to five years, depending on loan arrangements with the originating museum.
Link to Full Grant Announcement: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/nehontheroadrfp.html
Grant Announcement Contact: Division of Public Programs National Endowment for the Humanities Room 426 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20506 202-606-8269

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