[United States Government Manual]
[May 30, 1997]
[Pages 601-607]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]
NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506-0001
Phone, 202-682-5400
Chairman Jane Alexander
Chief of Staff Alexander Crary
Congressional Liaison Dick Woodruff
General Counsel Karen Christensen
Inspector General Ed Johns
Deputy Chairman for Grants and Partnership Scott Shanklin-
Peterson
Deputy Chairman for Management and Budget Ana M. Steele
Director, Enterprise Development Susan Clampitt
Director, Office of Communications Cherie Simon
Director, Policy, Research, and Technology Olive Mosier
Director, Guidelines and Panel Operations A.B. Spellman
Director of Administration Larry Baden
Budget Officer Ron Fincman
Finance Officer Marvin Marks
Contracts and Grants Officer Donna DiRicco
Administrative Services Officer Murray Welsh
Director, Office of Human Resources Maxine Jefferson
Coordinator, Creation and Presentation Division Jennifer Dowley
Coordinator, Education and Access Division Patrice Powell
Coordinator, Heritage and Preservation Division Gigi Bradford
Coordinator, Partnership, Planning, and Ed Dickey
Stabilization Division
Director, Civil Rights Angelia Richardson
Director, Information Management Andrea Fowler, Acting
Council Coordinator Yvonne Sabine
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NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506
Phone, 202-606-8400
Chairman Sheldon Hackney
Deputy Chairman Juan Mestas
General Counsel Michael Shapiro
Director of Congressional Liaison Ann S. Young Orr
Director, Office of Planning and Stephen F. Cherrington
Budget
Director, Office of Communications Gary Krull
Policy
Director, Federal/State Partnership Edith Manza
Director, Division of Research and James Herbert
Education
Director, Division of Public Nancy Rogers
Programs
Director, Division of Preservation George Farr
and Access
Director, Office of Challenge Grants Stephen M. Ross
Accounting Officer Mila Padua, Acting
Administrative Services Officer Barry Maynes
IRM Systems Officer Gillian Heagy, Acting
Equal Employment Opportunity Officer Willie McGhee
Grants Officer David Wallace
Director, Office of Human Resources Timothy G. Connelly
Inspector General Sheldon Bernstein
INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES
Room 510, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506
Phone, 202-606-8536
Director Diane B. Frankel
Director, Policy, Planning, and Linda Bell
Budget
Director, Legislative and Public Mamie Bittner
Affairs
Museum Program Director Rebecca Danvers
Library Program Director Robert Klassen
Deputy Program Director Mary Estelle Kennelly
[For the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities statement of
organization, see the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 45,
Part 1100]
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The National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities encourages and
supports national progress in the humanities and the arts.
The National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities was created as an
independent agency by the National Foundation on the Arts and the
Humanities Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 951). The Foundation consists of the
National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the
Humanities, the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities, and the
Institute of Museum and Library Services. Each Endowment has its own
Council, composed of the Endowment Chairman and 26 other members
appointed by the President, which advises the Chairman with respect to
policies, programs, and procedures, in addition to reviewing and making
recommendations on applications for financial support.
The Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities consists of 20
members, including the two Endowment Chairmen and the Director of the
Institute of Museum and Library Services, and is designed to coordinate
the activities of the two Endowments and related
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programs of other Federal agencies. Four members are excluded from the
Federal Council when it is considering matters under the Arts and
Artifacts Indemnity Act (20 U.S.C. 971).
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts supports the visual, literary, and
performing arts to benefit all Americans by fostering artistic
excellence, preserving and transmitting our diverse cultural heritage,
making the arts more accessible to all Americans, and making the arts
intrinsic to education.
The Arts Endowment serves as a catalyst to increase opportunities for
artists and resources for arts organizations. It promotes involvement in
the arts by citizens, public and private nonprofit organizations, and
States and local communities. The Endowment awards grants to nonprofit
arts organizations in support of outstanding projects; provides
fellowships to exceptionally talented American artists in selected
fields; works to expand the Nation's artistic resources and promote
preservation of the country's cultural heritage; and funds projects
whose goal is to educate, formally or informally, both children and
adults in the arts. The Endowment also disburses funds to State arts
agencies and local and regional organizations in order to promote broad
dissemination of the arts across America. Its grantmaking is conducted
through the following divisions: Creation and Presentation, Education
and Access, Heritage and Preservation, Planning and Stabilization, and
partnerships with State and regional arts agencies.
Sources of Information
Grants Persons interested in applying for a grant in the arts should
contact the appropriate program at the National Endowment for the Arts
by calling 202-682-5400 for further information.
Publications A report of the National Endowment for the Arts is issued
annually and may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents,
Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402.
Information for prospective applicants may be obtained by requesting
the publication entitled National Endowment for the Arts: A New Look.
Contact the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC 20506-0001.
For further information, contact the Public Information Office, National
Endowment for the Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC
20506-0001. Phone, 202-682-5400.
National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent, grantmaking
agency established by Congress in 1965 to support research, education,
and public programs in the humanities.
According to the agency's authorizing legislation, the term
``humanities'' includes, but is not limited to, the study of the
following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature;
history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion;
ethics; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those
aspects of the social sciences that employ historical or philosophical
approaches.
The Endowment makes grants to individuals, groups, or institutions--
schools, colleges, universities, museums,
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public television stations, libraries, public agencies, and nonprofit
private groups--to increase understanding and appreciation of the
humanities. Its grant-making is conducted through three operating
divisions--Research and Education, Public Programs, and Preservation and
Access, and through the Federal/State Partnership and the Office of
Challenge Grants.
Research and Education Through grants to educational institutions,
fellowships to scholars and teachers, and through the support of
significant research, this division is designed to strengthen sustained,
thoughtful study of the humanities at all levels of education and
promote original research in the humanities.
For further information, call 202-606-8200.
Public Programs This division strives to fulfill the Endowment's
mandate ``to increase public understanding of the humanities'' by
supporting those institutions and organizations that develop and present
humanities programming for general audiences.
For further information, call 202-606-8267.
Preservation and Access This division supports projects that will
create, preserve, and increase the availability of resources important
for research, education, and public programming in the humanities.
For further information, call 202-606-8570.
Federal/State Partnership Humanities committees in each of the 50
States, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the
Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Guam receive grants from
the Endowment, which they then re-grant to support humanities programs
at the local level.
For further information, call 202-606-8254.
Challenge Grants Nonprofit institutions interested in developing new
sources of long-term support for educational, scholarly, preservation,
and public programs in the humanities may be assisted in these efforts
by a challenge grant.
For further information, call 202-606-8309.
Sources of Information
Employment For employment information, contact the NEH Job Line. Phone,
202-606-8281.
Grants Those interested in applying for a grant in the humanities
should request information, guidelines, and application forms from the
Endowment's Public Information Office, Room 402, 1100 Pennsylvania
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506. Phone, 202-606-8400.
Publications The annual report of the National Endowment for the
Humanities may be obtained from the Endowment's Public Information
Office, Room 402, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506.
Phone, 202-606-8400.
Overview of Endowment Programs, which contains information for
prospective applicants, may be obtained by writing to the Public
Information Office, at the address given above.
Humanities, a bimonthly review of issues in the humanities published
by the Endowment, is available by subscription ($15 domestic, $18.75
foreign) through the Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954,
Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954.
For further information, contact the Public Information Office, National
Endowment for the Humanities, Room 402, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20506. Phone, 202-606-8400. E-mail, info@neh.fed.us.
Internet, http://www.neh.fed.us/.
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Institute of Museum and Library Services
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is an independent, grant-
making agency which assists museums and libraries in maintaining,
increasing, and improving their services to the public.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services was established within the
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities by the Museum and
Library Services Act of September 30, 1996 (110 Stat. 3009-293), which
amended the Museum Services Act (20 U.S.C. 961 et seq.). The Institute
combines administration of Federal museum programs formerly carried out
by the Institute of Museum Services and Federal library programs
formerly carried out by the Department of Education. The Institute's
Director is appointed by the President with the advice and consent of
the Senate and is authorized to make grants to museums and libraries.
The Director receives policy advice on museum programs from the National
Museum Services Board, which is comprised of 14 Presidentially appointed
members and the Director. The Director receives policy advice on library
programs from the National Commission on Library and Information
Sciences, a 15-member independent commission which advises the President
and the Congress on library sciences. The Director is an ex officio
member of the National Commission on Library and Information Sciences.
The Institute provides State grants for library programs for two key
priorities: information access through technology and information
empowerment through special services. It also provides grants to Indian
tribes and National Demonstration Awards.
The Institute awards museum grants on a competitive basis to support
the efforts of museums to conserve the Nation's historic, scientific,
and cultural heritage; to maintain and expand their educational role;
and to ease the financial burden borne by museums as a result of their
increasing use by the public. The Institute awards grants to all types
of museums, including but not limited to art, history, general,
children's, natural history, science and technology, as well as historic
houses, zoos and aquariums, botanical gardens and arboretums, nature
centers, and planetariums.
The Institute currently makes grants in seven categories: general
operating support, conservation project support, museum assessment,
conservation assessment, professional services, technical assistance,
and museum leadership initiatives.
General operating support grants are 2-year competitive awards that
maintain or improve the operations of museums.
Conservation project support grants are annual competitive awards,
for projects lasting up to 2 years, that provide funds for various
conservation efforts.
Museum assessment grants are one-time awards made to museums to
provide for an independent, professional assessment of their programs
and operations.
Conservation assessment grants are one-time awards made to museums
to assess the condition of their environment and collections in order to
identify conservation needs and priorities.
Professional services grants provide funding to national, regional,
State, or local private, nonprofit professional museum organizations and
associations for proposals designed to strengthen museum services.
Technical assistance grants provide funds to small, emerging
minority and rural museums for training and other implementation
activities.
Museum leadership initiative grants support partnerships between
museums and other community organizations.
Sources of Information
Grants, Contracts, and Cooperative Agreements Those interested in
applying for Institute of Museum and Library Services funding should
contact the Program Office, Institute of Museum
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and Library Services, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC
20506. Phone, 202-606-8539.
For further information, contact the Program Director, Institute of
Museum and Library Services, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20506. Phone, 202-606-8539.
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