[United States Government Manual]
[May 31, 1996]
[Pages 602-607]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]
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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 Ed Johns, Acting
Deputy Chairman for Grants and Partnership Scott Sanders
Deputy Chairman for Management and Budget Ana Steele
Director, Enterprise Development Susan Clampitt
Director, Office of Communications Cherie Simon
Director, Policy, Planning, 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
Director, Office of Human Resources Maxine Jefferson
Director, Creation and Presentation Division Jennifer Dowley
Director, Education and Access Division Patrice Powell
Director, Heritage and Preservation Division Gigi Bradford
Director, Planning and Stabilization Division Ed Dickey
Director, Civil Rights Angelia Richardson
Director, Information Management Ruth Reed
Council Coordinator Yvonne Sabine
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506
Phone, 202-606-8400
Chairman Sheldon Hackney
Deputy Chairman Juan Mestas
Senior Humanities Advisor Donald Gibson
General Counsel Michael Shapiro
Director of Congressional Liaison Ann S. Young Orr
Director, Office of Planning and Stephen F. Cherrington
Budget
Director, Office of Gary Krull
Communications Policy
Director, Federal/State Edith Manza
Partnership
Director, Division of Research James Herbert
and Education
Director, Division of Public Nancy Rogers, Acting
Programs and Enterprise
Director, Division of George Farr
Preservation and Access
Director, Office of Challenge Stephen M. Ross
Grants
Accounting Officer D. Ray Gleason
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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
Director, Legislative and Public Mamie Bittner
Affairs
Executive Assistant, National Elsa Mezvinsky
Museum Services Board and
Administrative Assistant
Program Director Rebecca Danvers
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 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,
preserving and transmitting our diverse cultural heritage, making the
arts more accessible to all Americans, promoting the vitality of arts
institutions, 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 organizations, and States and
local
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communities. The Endowment 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.
The Endowment also 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 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.
A program announcement containing information for prospective
applicants may be obtained by requesting the publication entitled Guide
to Programs,. Contact the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington,
DC 20506.
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, 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, 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 Enterprise, 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 and Enterprise 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
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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/.
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
authorized to make grants to museums subject to policy directives and
priorities set by the National Museum Services Board. The Board is
comprised of 15 Presidentially appointed members and 5 ex officio
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
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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 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 in
order 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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