[United States Government Manual]
[July 01, 1995]
[Pages 625-631]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506
Phone, 202-682-5400
Chairman                                         Jane Alexander
  Chief of Staff                                 Alexander Crary
Congressional Liaison                            Dick Woodruff
General Counsel                                  Karen Christensen
Inspector General                                Leon Lilly
Director, Millennium Projects                    Brian O'Doherty
Director, Policy, Planning and Research          Olive Mosier
  Director, Civil Rights Division                Angelia Richardson
  Director, Research Division                    Tom Bradshaw
  Librarian                                      Jeanne McConnell
Director, Public Affairs                         Cherie Simon
  Director, Public Information                   Olivia Baisden
Director, Special Projects                       Rosemary Cribben
Senior Deputy Chairman                           Ana Steele
Associate Deputy Chairman for Program            A.B. Spellman
    Coordination
Budget Officer                                   Aaron Fineman
Director, Council and Panel Operations           Yvonne Sabine
Deputy Chairman for Programs                     Susan Clampitt
Director, Dance                                  Cynthia Mayeda, Acting
Director, Design                                 Samina Quraeshi
Director, Folk and Traditional Arts              Daniel Sheehy
Director, Literature                             Gigi Bradford
Director, Media Arts                             Brian O'Doherty
Director, Museums                                Jennifer Dowley
Director, Music                                  Omus Hirshbein

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Director, Opera-Musical Theater                  Omus Hirshbein
Director, Presenting                             Omus Hirshbein
Director, Theater                                Keryl McCord
Director, Visual Arts                            Jennifer Dowley
Deputy Chairman for Public Partnership           Scott Sanders
Director, Arts in Education                      Douglas Herbert
Director, Challenge/Advancement                  Lee Dennison
Director, Expansion Arts                         Patrice Powell
Director, Federal Liaison                        Marianne Klink
Director, International                          Merianne Liteman
Director, Local Arts Agencies                    Diane Mataraza
Director, Special Constituencies                 Paula Terry
Director, State and Regional                     Edward Dickey
Deputy Chairman for Management                   Larry Baden
Director, Administrative Services                Murray Welsh
Director, Contracts and Procurement              Bill Hummel
Director, Finance                                Marvin Marks
Grants Officer                                   Donna DiRicco, Acting
Director, Human Resources                        Maxine Jefferson
  Director, Arts Administration                  Anya Nykyforiak
      Fellows
  Director, Personnel                            Leon Williams
Director, Information Management                 Ruth Reed
Coordinators, Management Systems                 Martha Jones
                                                 Kathy Plowitz-Worden

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
  Director, Office of Planning and               Stephen F. Cherrington
      Budget
  Director, Office of                            Gary Krull
      Communications Policy
  Director, Federal/State                        Carole Watson
      Partnership
  Director, Division of Education                James Herbert
      Programs
  Director, Division of Public                   Marsha Semmel
      Programs
  Director, Division of Research                 Guinevere L. Griest
      Programs
  Director, Division of                          George Farr
      Preservation and Access
  Accounting Officer                             D. Ray Gleason
  Administrative Services Officer                Barry Maynes
  IRM Systems Officer                            William J. Kinsella
  Equal Employment Opportunity                   Margaret V. Horne
      Officer
  Grants Officer                                 David Wallace
  Director of Personnel                          Timothy G. Connelly
Inspector General                                Sheldon Bernstein

INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM 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
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  Public Information Officer and                 Mamie Bittner
      Congressional Liaison
  Executive Assistant, National                  S. William Laney
      Museum Services Board and 
      Administrative Assistant
  Program Director                               Rebecca Danvers
  Assistant 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 a 
National Endowment for the Arts, a National Endowment for the 
Humanities, a Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities, and an 
Institute of Museum 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 and 
procedures and reviews applications for financial support while making 
recommendations thereon.
    The Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities consists of 20 
members, including the two Endowment Chairmen and the Director of the 
Institute of Museum Services, and is designed to coordinate the 
activities of the two Endowments and related 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 and developing the Nation's finest creative talent; by 
preserving and transmitting our diverse cultural heritage; by making the 
arts more accessible to all Americans; by promoting the vitality of arts 
institutions; and by 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 organizations, and States and 
local communities. The agency awards grants to nonprofit arts 
organizations in support of outstanding performances, exhibitions, 
projects, and programs; provides fellowships to exceptionally talented 
American artists to stimulate the creation of new works of art, to 
expand the Nation's artistic resources, and to 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. 
Also, it disburses program 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 
programs: Challenge and Advancement, Dance, Design Arts, Expansion Arts, 
Folk Arts, International, Literature, Media Arts, Museums, Opera-Musical 
Theater, Presenting and Commissioning, Theater, Visual Arts, Arts in 
Education, Local Arts Agencies, and State and Regional.

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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 202-682-5464 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.
    A Program Announcement containing information for prospective 
applicants may be obtained by writing to the National Endowment for the 
Arts, requesting the publication entitled Guide to Programs, Washington, 
DC 20506.
Employment Information  The Office of Personnel Management registers 
from which employees are most often appointed are Secretary, Mid-Level 
Administrative Examination, and Senior-Level Examination.

For further information, contact the Public Information Office, National 
Endowment for the Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 
20506. Phone, 202-682-5400.

National Endowment for the Humanities

The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent, grant-
making 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; archeology; 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, public television stations, 
libraries, public agencies, and nonprofit private groups--to increase 
understanding and appreciation of the humanities. Its grant-making is 
conducted through four operating divisions--Education Programs, Public 
Programs, Preservation and Access, and Research Programs, through the 
Office of Federal/State Partnership and the Office of Challenge Grants.
Education Grants  Grants in the Division of Education Programs support 
efforts in elementary and secondary schools as well as in institutions 
of higher education to improve instruction in humanities disciplines and 
to disseminate results of exemplary education programs. This Division 
also supports college and school teacher seminars that provide for 
collegial interaction.

For further information, call 202-606-8373.

Research  Projects of longer duration, often involving collaboration 
between scholars, fall within the domain of the Division of Research 
Programs, which awards grants for the preparation of publication of 
important texts in the humanities, the organization of collections and 
the preparation of reference materials, the conduct of collaborative or 
coordinated research, the support of centers where scholars may conduct 
their research, and the support of international organizations for the 
exchange of scholars. This Division also supports individual scholars, 
teachers, and other interpreters of the humanities for full-time, 
independent study or research.

For further information, call 202-606-8200.

Public Grants  The Division of Public Programs strives to fulfill the 
Endowment's mandate ``to increase public understanding of the 
humanities'' 

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by supporting those institutions and organizations that develop and 
present humanities programming for general audiences.

For further information, call 202-606-8267.

Federal/State Partnership Grants  Humanities committees in each of the 
50 States, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, 
the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, or Guam, receive annual 
grants from the Division of State Programs, 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.

Preservation and Access  The Division of Preservation and Access expands 
Endowment support in attacking the problem of deteriorating humanities 
resources. Cooperative projects set in a national framework with an 
emphasis on the preservation of America's past and the work of American 
scholars, using both Federal and private funds, are particularly 
encouraged.

For further information, call 202-606-8570.

Sources of Information

Employment  The Office of Personnel Management registers from which 
employees are most often appointed are: Clerk-Typist, Mid-Level 
Administrative Register, and Senior-Level Register.
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  An annual report for the National Endowment for the 
Humanities is issued annually and 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.

Institute of Museum Services

The Institute of Museum Services is an independent, grant-making agency 
established by Congress in 1976 to assist museums in maintaining, 
increasing, and improving their services to the public.

The Institute of Museum Services (IMS) was created by the Museum 
Services Act (20 U.S.C. 961 note). In December 1981, pursuant to title 
II of the act of Dec. 23, 1981 (20 U.S.C. 961, 962), the Institute was 
established as an independent agency within the National Foundation on 
the Arts and the Humanities. The Institute's Director is appointed by 
the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, and is 
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subject to policy directives and priorities set by the National Museum 
Services Board. The Board is comprised of 15 Presidentially appointed 
nonvoting members and 5 ex officio nonvoting members.
    The Institute awards 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, 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 
Program, Professional Services Program, Conservation Assessment Program, 
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 
Program grants are one-time awards made to museums to provide for an 
independent, professional assessment of their programs and operations. 
Conservation Assessment Program grants are one-time awards made to 
museums to assess the condition of their environment and collections, to 
identify conservation needs and priorities. Professional Services 
Program 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 Initiatives support projects that establish mentoring 
relationships between at least two parties, one of whom is a museum 
staff member.

Sources of Information

Grants, Contracts, and Cooperative Agreements  Those interested in 
applying for Institute of Museum Services funding should contact the 
Program Office, Institute of Museum Services, Room 609, 1100 
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506. Phone, 202-606-8539.

For further information, contact the Program Director, Institute of 
Museum Services, Room 609, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 
20506. Phone, 202-606-8539.

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