Inspire! Grants for Small Museums (2024)

The summary for the Inspire! Grants for Small Museums (2024) grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.
Inspire! Grants for Small Museums (2024): Inspire! Grants for Small Museums is a special initiative of the Museums for America program. It is designed to support small museums of all disciplines in project-based efforts to serve the public through exhibitions, educational/interpretive programs, digital learning resources, policy development and institutional planning, technology enhancements, professional development, community outreach, audience development, and/or collections management, curation, care, and conservation. Inspire! has three project categories: • Lifelong Learning • Institutional Capacity • Collections Stewardship and Access For the FY2024 grant cycle, the IMLS invites applications that commemorate America's 250th anniversary as part of the agency's IMLS250: All Stories, All People, All Places initiative. IMLS believes that the semiquincentennial is an opportunity to commemorate all lived experiences through civic engagement, public programs, and collections stewardship in preparation for 2026
Federal Grant Title: Inspire! Grants for Small Museums (2024)
Federal Agency Name: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Grant Categories: Arts (see "Cultural Affairs" in CFDA) Humanities (see "Cultural Affairs" in CFDA)
Type of Opportunity: Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number: IGSM-FY24
Type of Funding: Grant
CFDA Numbers: 45.301
CFDA Descriptions: Information not provided
Current Application Deadline: November 15th, 2023
Original Application Deadline: November 15th, 2023
Posted Date: August 15th, 2023
Creation Date: August 15th, 2023
Archive Date: December 9th, 2023
Total Program Funding: $2,600,000
Maximum Federal Grant Award: $75,000
Minimum Federal Grant Award: $5,000
Expected Number of Awards: 60
Cost Sharing or Matching: Yes
Last Updated: August 15th, 2023
Applicants Eligible for this Grant
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification.)
Additional Information on Eligibility
See the Notice of Funding Opportunity for program eligibility criteria.
Link to Full Grant Announcement
https://imls.gov/grants/available/inspire-grants-small-museums
Grant Announcement Contact
Lifelong Learning:
Reagan Moore
Senior Museum Program Officer
[email protected]
Institutional Capacity:
Reagan Moore
Senior Museum Program Officer
[email protected]
Collections Stewardship and Access:
Mark Isaksen
Supervisory Grants Management Specialist
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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