Museums for America
The Museums for America (MFA) program supports projects that strengthen the ability of an individual museum to serve its public.
MFA has three project categories:Learning ExperiencesIMLS supports the unique ability of museums to empower people of all ages through experiential learning and discovery.
Successful projects provide high-quality, inclusive educational opportunities that address particular audience needs.Community AnchorsIMLS promotes the role of museums as essential partners in addressing the needs of their communities by leveraging their expertise, knowledge, physical space, technology, and other resources.
These projects strive to create a better quality of life within communities.Collections StewardshipIMLS supports the exemplary management, care, and conservation of museum collections.
Projects address a clearly articulated and well-documented need and contribute to the long-term preservation of materials entrusted to the museums care.
MFA has three project categories:Learning ExperiencesIMLS supports the unique ability of museums to empower people of all ages through experiential learning and discovery.
Successful projects provide high-quality, inclusive educational opportunities that address particular audience needs.Community AnchorsIMLS promotes the role of museums as essential partners in addressing the needs of their communities by leveraging their expertise, knowledge, physical space, technology, and other resources.
These projects strive to create a better quality of life within communities.Collections StewardshipIMLS supports the exemplary management, care, and conservation of museum collections.
Projects address a clearly articulated and well-documented need and contribute to the long-term preservation of materials entrusted to the museums care.
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
http://www.imls.gov/applicants/detail.aspx?GrantId=11
Additional Information of Eligibility:
To be eligible for an award under the MFA program, you must be an organization that meets all three of the following criteria: You must be either a unit of State or local government or be a private nonprofit organization that has tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code; You must be located in one of the 50 States of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U. S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of Palau; and You must qualify as one of the following: A museum that, using a professional staff, is organized on a permanent basis for essentially educational or aesthetic purposes; owns or uses tangible objects, either animate or inanimate; cares for these objects; and exhibits these objects to the general public on a regular basis through facilities that it owns or operates.
What types of institutions are included in the term museum? If they otherwise meet these requirements, including the criteria in (3) (a) above, museums include, but are not limited to, aquariums, arboretums, art museums, botanical gardens, childrens/youth museums, general museums (those having two or more significant disciplines), historic houses/sites, history museums, natural history/anthropology museums, nature centers, planetariums, science/technology centers, specialized museums (limited to a single distinct subject), and zoological parks.
What does it mean to be using a professional staff? An institution uses a professional staff if it employs at least one staff member, or the full-time equivalent, whether paid or unpaid, primarily engaged in the acquisition, care, or exhibition to the public of objects owned or used by the institution.
What does it mean to exhibit the objects to the general public? An institution exhibits objects to the general public if such exhibition is a primary purpose of the institution.
An institution that exhibits objects to the general public for at least 120 days a year is deemed to exhibit objects to the general public on a regular basis.
An institution which does not have the exhibition of objects as a primary purpose and/or does not exhibit objects to the public for at least 120 days a year may be determined to be eligible as a museum under certain circumstances.
For more information, please see 45 CFR §1180.2(d).
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Full Opportunity Web Address:
http://www.imls.gov/applicants/detail.aspx?GrantId=11
Contact:
Learning Experiences:Sandra NarvaSenior Program Officersnarva@imls.gov202-653-4634Reagan MooreMuseum Program Specialistrmoore@imls.gov202-653-4637Community Anchors:Steve ShwartzmanSenior Program Officersshwartzman@im
Agency Email Description:
cbodner@imls.gov
Agency Email:
cbodner@imls.gov
Date Posted:
2014-09-25
Application Due Date:
2014-12-01
Archive Date:
2014-12-31
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