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READY OR NOT DISASTER PREPAREDNESS GRANT PROGRAM

Grantor:
CA State Library
Portal ID:
29990
Status:
Closed
Opportunity Type:
  • Grant
Last Updated:
Categories:

Details

Purpose:

This grant program will connect California cultural heritage organizations with local assistance grants to strengthen collections care and emergency preparedness, thereby protecting their collections from damage, destruction and decay. The goal is to protect at-risk art, historically and culturally significant collections that are publicly and privately held among California’s underserved and underrepresented communities.

Description:

The partner organization will work with the State Library to design and implement a grant program that provides local archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, tribal nations and other cultural heritage organizations with funding to implement disaster preparedness plans.

The Applicant’s role and responsibilities are as follows:

1. Creating a grant application, including a timeline, funding levels, grantee requirements, and allowable expenses

2. Identifying and conducting outreach to organizations stewarding cultural resources to raise awareness of the grant program

3. Assisting and stewarding organizations through the grant application process

4. Scoring applications and making recommendations to the Library on which organizations to fund and how much funding to award them

5. Ensuring that the funds requested are reasonable and the funded items and activities are necessary to implement the disaster preparedness plans

6. Tracking grantees’ activities and expenditures over the time of the grant period

Project end date is March 2025.

Applicants should have proven experience with:

• Conducting preservation needs assessments

• Conducting digital preservation assessments

• Conducting collection and item level assessments

• Project planning and management experience with state, federal or private funding programs

• Grant administration

• Working with local archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, tribal nations and other cultural heritage organizations

Eligibility Requirements

Eligible Applicants:

  • Business
  • Nonprofit

Applicants should have proven experience with:

• Conducting preservation needs assessments

• Conducting digital preservation assessments

• Conducting collection and item level assessments

• Project planning and management experience with state, federal or private funding programs

• Grant administration

• Working with local archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, tribal nations and other cultural heritage organizations

Important Dates

The date (and time, where applicable) by which all applications must be submitted to the grantmaker. Time listed as “00:00” equates to midnight.
The date on which the grantor expects to announce the recipient(s) of the grant.
June 22, 2023
The length of time during which the grant money must be utilized.
22 months

Funding Details

The total projected dollar amount of the grant.
$1,634,000
A single grant opportunity may represent one or many awards. Some grantors may know in advance the exact number of awards to be given. Others may indicate a range. Some may wish to and wait until the application period closes before determining how many awards to offer; in this case, a value of “Dependent” will display.
1
Grant opportunities representing multiple awards may offer awards in the same amount or in varied amounts. Some may wish to wait until the application period closes before determining per-award amounts; in this case, a value of “Dependent” will display.
$1,634,000
Certain grants require that the recipient(s) provide a letter of intent.
No
Certain grants require that the recipient(s) be able to fully or partially match the grant award amount with another funding source.
No
The funding source allocated to fund the grant. It may be either State or Federal (or a combination of both), and be tied to a specific piece of legislation, a proposition, or a bond number.
  • State
The manner in which the grant funding will be delivered to the awardee. Funding methods include reimbursements (where the recipient spends out-of-pocket and is reimbursed by the grantor) and advances (where the recipient spends received grant funds directly).
  • Advance(s)

How to Apply

State agencies/departments recommend you read the full grant guidelines before applying.

Resources

For questions about this grant, contact:
Jamie Romas, 1-708-955-6876, ReadyOrNot@library.ca.gov

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