    [United States Government Manual]
    [May 30, 1997]
    [Pages 601-607]
    [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 20506-0001
    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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