[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 
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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 
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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, [email protected]. 
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 
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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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