The Division of Preservation and Access at the National Endowment for the Humanities announces a new preventive conservation grant program, Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections, with a deadline of December 8, 2009. The program offers U.S. nonprofit museums, libraries, and archives, as well as state and local governmental agencies and tribal governments with humanities collections two kinds of awards:

• Planning and Evaluation Grants: Up to $40,000
• Implementation Grants: Up to $400,000

Guidelines for the grants should be available by September.  For more information contact the division at preservation@neh.gov or call 202-606-8570.