[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, [email protected]. 
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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