Foundation Grants for Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums 2010 Edition Foundation Grants for Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums 2010 Edition CONTENTS Introduction ____________________________________________________ iii Statistical Analysis __________________________________________ vii Foundation Center Cooperating Collections ______________________xv Section One: Grant Listings _______________________________________ 1 Section Two: Indexes ___________________________________________ 65 Index to Grants by Recipient Name ____________________________ 65 Index to Grants by Recipient Location __________________________ 71 Index to Grants by Subject ____________________________________ 77 Section Three: Foundation Addresses and Limitations _______________ 97 The Library of Congress, Preservation Directorate, Conservation Division The Foundation Center Foundation Grants for Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museumsis a joint project of the Library of Congress and the Foundation Center CONTRIBUTORS The Library of Congress Deanna Marcum _________________Associate Librarian for Library Services Michael Handy ___________________Deputy Associate Librarian for Library Services Dianne van der Reyden ___________Director for Preservation Diane Vogt-O’Connor ______________Chief of Conservation The Foundation Center Joyce Infante ____________________Vice President for Business and Strategic Services Jeff Falkenstein __________________Vice President for Data Acquisition and Architecture Sherry Seward ___________________Consultant to the Foundation Center, President, Palladium Resources, Inc. Christine Innamorato _____________Production Manager Kathye Giesler ___________________Publishing Database Administrator Cover Photograph ________________Carol M. Highsmith ABOUT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, PRESERVATION DIRECTORATE, CONSERVATION DIVISION The Library of Congress, the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution, is the world’s preeminent reservoir of knowledge, providing unparalleled resources to Congress and the American people. Founded in 1800, the Library seeks to further human understanding and wisdom by providing access to knowledge through its magnificent collections. The Library’s collections capture and share the world’s knowledge in almost all of the world’s languages, conveying America’s intellectual and cultural creativity in many formats. Many of the Library’s rich resources and treasures may also be accessed through the Library’s award-winning web site www.loc.gov. The Conservation Division (CD) ensures that the Library’s universal collection of knowledge and creativity will still exist for future generations. The Conservation Division provides treatment and preventive care for rare and valuable special research collections that are high priority, high risk, and needed for special uses (such as exhibitions, research, or digitization). The Conservation Division staff conduct and publish research; create new solutions for assessment, housing, and care of collections and potential acquisitions; train staff, students, the public, and professionals in a variety of preventive techniques; prevent and respond to disasters; prepare materials for moves, digitization, exhibitions, and loans; monitor, evaluate, fine-tune, and plan storage spaces; and stabilize and treat threatened special collections items. A description of the Conservation Division activities and ready-to-use guidance may be found at: www.loc.gov/preserv/conserv.html. ABOUT THE FOUNDATION CENTER Established in 1956, and today supported by close to 550 foundations, the Foundation Center is the nation’s leading authority on philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants—a robust, accessible knowledge bank for the sector. It also operates research, education, and training programs designed to advance philanthropy at every level. Thousands of people visit the Center’s web site each day, and are served in its five regional library/learning centers and its network of more than 400 funding information centers located in public libraries, community foundations, and educational institutions in every U.S. state and beyond. For more information, please visit foundationcenter.org or call (212) 620-4230. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Foundation grants for preservation in libraries, archives and museums. — 2010 ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 978-1-59542-300-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Endowments—United States--States--Directories. 2. Library materials—Conservation and restoration—United States. 3. Archival materials—Conservation and restoration-- United States. I. Library of Congress. Conservation Division. II. Foundation Center. Z701.4.U6F68 2009 001.4’4—dc22 2009046963 All rights reserved. © 2009 by the Foundation Center ISBN 978-1-59542-300-9 INTRODUCTION Foundation Grants for Preservation in Libraries, Archives, authorization (or payment); and a description of the and Museums lists 2,270 grants of $5,000 or more activity funded. Numeric references in the indexes are awarded by 505 grantmakers, from 2005 through the to grant identification numbers, not page numbers. publication date of this guide. It covers grants to public, academic, research, school, and special libraries, Access to the grants is available through three and to archives and museums for activities related indexes: to conservation and preservation. Preservation grant funding described includes archives conservation, ◆ an index of recipient names; art conservation, collections management, computer systems development, disaster funding, education, ◆ a geographic index (arranged by recipient state or electronic media and online services, endowments, foreign country location, then recipient name); and environment, equipment, exhibit preservation and treatment, faculty and staff development, fellowships ◆ an index of subject key words. and internships, film and video preservation, global programs, governmental programs and needs, higher The subject index contains a number of multiple index education, historical and archaeological preservation, terms, such as film/video, that are indexed under historical societies, international exchanges, library the first word in the term, in this case, film. If you are preservation, museum preservation, painting using the online version of this publication, and you conservation, performing arts preservation, photography can not find what you are looking for in the subject preservation, program evaluations, publications, index, you can also search for your subject term using research, scholarship funds, and science, social the “find in” search feature. Type the Control and science, telecommunications, university, and visual arts F keys to open the “find in” search feature, then type conservation among others. any word(s), such as video. This Guide is derived from a grants database of more than 22,000 grantmakers, which includes the grants from more than 1,400 of Sample Entry the largest foundations including the top 15 funders in each state, as well as sample grants from a wide range of small and Foundation location— NEW YORK medium-sized funders. The grants listed in this publication are also included in the Foundation name— The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Directory Online, the Foundation Foundation Center’s subscription-based service, along with detailed profiles of the foundations Limitations— Limitations: Giving on a national making the grants. basis with some international giving, primarily focused on South Africa. No support for primarily ARRANGEMENT local organizations. No grants to individuals (including scholarships); Within this volume, grants are arranged no loans. alphabetically by foundation state, then Grant identification number— 1421. Bard College, Annandale by foundation name and recipient name Recipient name & location on Hudson, NY. $18,600, within each foundation listing. Grant records Amount, Year authorized, 2008. 1.75-year grant. For include the following information: the Duration, and Description cataloguing and preservation of name, city, and location (state or foreign Hannah Arendt Collection. country) of the recipient organization; the amount awarded; the fiscal year of grant © 2009 by the Foundation Center iii Introduction Foundation Grants for Preservation In Libraries, Archives, and Museums Statistical tables analyzing the grants in this volume PLEASE REMEMBER: IF YOU DO follow this introduction. These tables provide NOT QUALIFY, DO NOT APPLY. information on the dollar amount and number of grants according to the following breakdowns: Comprehensive research using all available resources foundation name; recipient state (or foreign country); will help the grantseeker determine the overall giving primary subject; and recipient type. Additionally, a list interests of a particular foundation and decide on of the top 15 grants by highest grant dollar amount appropriate foundations to apply to for funding. It and a list of the top 25 foundations awarding grants in is essential to remember that many foundations this subject area are included with the statistics. place limitations on their giving, including by subject area, recipient type, and geographic location. Finding A list of foundation addresses and geographic out about any limitations before submitting grant limitations can be found at the back of this