Inspire! Grants for Small Museums (2025)
The summary for the Inspire! Grants for Small Museums (2025) grant is detailed below.
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Inspire! Grants for Small Museums (2025): 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
| Federal Grant Title: | Inspire! Grants for Small Museums (2025) |
| 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-FY25 |
| Type of Funding: | Grant |
| CFDA Numbers: | 45.301 |
| CFDA Descriptions: | Information not provided |
| Current Application Deadline: | November 15th, 2024 |
| Original Application Deadline: | November 15th, 2024 |
| Posted Date: | August 15th, 2024 |
| Creation Date: | August 15th, 2024 |
| Archive Date: | March 30th, 2025 |
| Total Program Funding: | $3,000,000 |
| Maximum Federal Grant Award: | $75,000 |
| Minimum Federal Grant Award: | $5,000 |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 75 |
| Cost Sharing or Matching: | Yes |
| Last Updated: | August 15th, 2024 |
- 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 eligibility information.
- 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]
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