Small Grants to Libraries: America's Music

Post Date

December 14th 2011

Application Due Date

March 14th 2012

Funding Opportunity Number

20120314-LB

CFDA Number(s)

45.164

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Humanities

Eligibility Categories

Other

Applications are invited from libraries (public, academic, special) and non-profit institutions or venues related to music or American history. (Examples include but are not limited to university departments, archives with an extensive collection in one of the areas of the program, museums, music-oriented institutes or societies, or performance venues.) Either a library or another nonprofit organization may be the lead applicant. All lead applicants must either have IRS 501(c)3 tax-exempt status, or be state or local governmental agencies. However, nonprofit organizations other than libraries must apply in partnership with a library, as grant guidelines require that the documentary DVD packages become part of a libraryуs circulating collection after the series ends. Individuals are not eligible to apply.

Funding

• Award Range:

  $0 - $2500

Grant Description

Americaуs Music: A Film History of Our Popular Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway is a six-week public program featuring documentary film screenings and scholar-led discussions of twentieth-century American popular music. The six sessions focus on these uniquely American musical genres: blues and gospel, Broadway, jazz, bluegrass and country, rock nу roll, and mambo and hip hop. The project will provide DVDs of compelling documentary films, discussion guidelines, original essays by eminent scholars, extensive resource guides, and Web support. The project will offer participating organizations training in how to organize, promote, and run the series successfully. All libraries and nonprofit organizations selected to implement the public program will receive grants of $2,500 for project expenses. Fifty organizations (libraries and other eligible nonprofits) will be selected to receive a grant to present this series of community programs on the history of American popular music. The grantee institutions are expected to offer the programs between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2013.

Contact Information

• Agency

  National Endowment for the Humanities

• Office:

  None

• Agency Contact:

  Division of Public Programs
  National Endowment for the Humanities
  Room 426
  1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
  Washington, DC 20506
  202-606-8269

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Publicpgms@neh.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  Publicpgms@neh.gov

• More Information:

  http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/SGL_BluestoBluegrass.html