“The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it would award up to $1 million in emergency grants to cultural organizations for recovery and preservation efforts,” writes Benjamin Sutton on Friday’s (9/1) Hyperallergic.com. “The grants are intended to fund the preservation of humanities collections impacted by the storm, as well as helping institutions—from universities and libraries to museums and historical societies — to get back up and running. The first $250,000 in NEH emergency grants will be distributed via Humanities Texas and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. The remaining $750,000 will be allocated beginning September 8 and through December 31, when cultural organizations in disaster zones (as designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency) can begin applying for emergency grants of up to $30,000. In addition to the $1 million in emergency grants, the NEH is allowing existing grant recipients in FEMA-designated disaster areas to change the scope of their grants in order to serve more critical recovery and rebuilding purposes. … The federal agency similarly made more than $1 million in emergency grants in the nine months following Hurricane Katrina, and ultimately over $2 million over the course of three years to arts organizations in Gulf states affected by that disaster.”
Posted September 5, 2017
