[United States Government Manual]
[June 01, 1999]
[Pages 602-609]
[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                                          William J. (Bill) Ivey
Senior Deputy Chairman                            Scott Shanklin-
                                                          Peterson
Congressional and White House Liaison             Dick Woodruff
General Counsel                                   Hope O'Keeffe, Acting

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Inspector General                                 Ed Johns
Deputy Chairman, Grants and Awards                Karen Christensen
Deputy Chairman, Management and Budget            Lawrence Baden
Deputy Chairman, Guidelines, Panel, and Council   A.B. Spellman
        Operations
Chief Information Officer                         (vacancy)
Director, Office of Communications                Cherie Simon
Director, Policy Research and Analysis            Olive Mosier
Budget Officer                                    Ron Fincman
Finance Officer                                   Marvin Marks
Contracts and Grants Officer                      Donna DiRicco
Director, Administrative Services                 Murray R. Welsh
Director, Office of Human Resources               Maxine Jefferson
Director, Civil Rights                            Angelia Richardson
Director, Information Management                  Andrea Fowler
Council Coordinator                               Yvonne Sabine
Coordinator, Leadership and Millennium            Michael McLaughlin
State and Regional Director                       Ed Dickey
Locals/ArtsREACH Director                         Patrice Powell
Federal Partnership Director                      Rosalie Kessler
Arts Education Director                           Doug Herbert
Music/Opera Director                              Wayne Brown
Presenting/Multidisciplinary Director             Pennie Ojeda, Acting
Dance Director                                    Doug Sonntag
Design Director                                   Mark Robbins
Media Arts Director                               Laura Welsh, Acting
Museum/Visual Arts Director                       Jennifer Dowley
Folk/Traditional Arts Director                    Dan Sheehy
Literature Director                               Cliff Becker
Theater/Musical Theater Director                  Gigi Bolt
Planning and Stabilization Director               Lee Dennison

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES

1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506

Phone, 202-606-8400. Internet, http://www.neh.gov/.
Chairman                                          William R. Ferris
Deputy Chairman                                   Juan Mestas
Chief of Staff                                    Ann S. Young Orr
    General Counsel                               Virginia Canter
    Director, Office of Strategic                 Jeffrey Thomas, Acting
            Planning
    Director, Office of Public Affairs            Roberta Heine
    Director, Governmental Affairs                Michael Bagley
    Director, Enterprise Office                   Nancy Sturm
    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                            Tony Banko
    Administrative Services Officer               Barry Maynes
    IRM Systems Officer                           Brett Bobley
    Equal Employment Opportunity Officer          Willie McGhee

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    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. Internet, http://www.imls.fed.us/. E-mail, 
I[email protected].
Director                                          Beverly Sheppard, 
                                                          Acting
Deputy Director of IMLS for the Office of         Elizabeth Sywetz
        Library Services
Deputy Director of IMLS for the Office of Museum  Beverly Sheppard
        Services
    Director, Policy, Planning, and               Linda Bell
            Budget
    Director, Legislative and Public              Mamie Bittner
            Affairs
    Museum Program Director                       Mary Estelle Kennelly
    Library Program Director                      Joyce Ray
    Director, Research and Technology             Rebecca Danvers

[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 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, an investment in America's living 
cultural heritage, serves the public good by nurturing the expression of 
human creativity, supporting the cultivation of community spirit, and 
fostering the recognition and appreciation of the excellence and 
diversity of our Nation's artistic accomplishments.
The Arts Endowment serves as a catalyst to increase opportunities and 
resources for arts organizations, artists, and arts audiences. 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; honors artists of exceptional

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achievement; 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 funding catagories: creation and presentation, 
education, 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 discipline Director 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, for a limited time, from the Public 
Information Office (see ``For furter information'' section below).
    Information for prospective applicants may be obtained by requesting 
application guidelines from the Public Information Office.

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, 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 202-606-8269.

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.

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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 Office of Public Affairs, Room 401, 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 Office of Public 
Affairs, Room 401, 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 Office of 
Public Affairs, at the address given above.
    Humanities, a bimonthly review of issues in the humanities published 
by the Endowment, is available by subscription ($18 domestic, $22.50 
foreign) through the Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, 
Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954.

For further information, contact the Office of Public Affairs, National 
Endowment for the Humanities, Room 401, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., 
Washington, DC 20506. Phone, 202-606-8400. Internet, http://
www.neh.gov/. E-mail, [email protected].

Institute of Museum and Library Services

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is an independent, grant-
making agency that fosters leadership, innovation, and a lifetime of 
learning by supporting museums and libraries.

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 Libraries and Information 
Science, a 16-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 Libraries and Information Science.
    In addition to providing distinct programs of support for museums 
and libraries, IMLS encourages collaboration between these community 
resources. The Institute's library programs help

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libraries use new technologies to identify, preserve, and share library 
and information resources across institutional, local, and State 
boundaries and to reach those for whom library use requires extra effort 
or special materials. Museum programs strengthen museum operations, 
improve care of collections, increase professional development 
opportunities, and enhance the community service role of museums.
    IMLS awards grants to all types of museums and libraries. Eligible 
museums include 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. 
Eligible libraries include public, school, academic, research, and 
special libraries. The Institute makes grants in 10 program categories.
Library Grants to States  These grants improve electronic sharing of 
information and expand public access to an increasing wealth of 
information and services. Each State provides a 5-year plan to establish 
goals and identify priorities that address the purposes of the Library 
Services and Technology Act subtitle of the Museum and Library Services 
Act. Grants to States may be expended directly or through subgrants or 
cooperative agreements.
Native American Library Services  This program provides small grants for 
core library operations of tribes and Alaska Native villages, technical 
assistance for these libraries, and enhancement grants to promote 
innovative practices in libraries serving Native Americans and Alaskan 
Native villages.
Native Hawaiian Library Services  This program provides a single grant 
to an organization that primarily serves and represents Native 
Hawaiians.
National Leadership Grants  These grants, contractsm and cooperative 
agreements enhance the quality of library and museum servces nationwide. 
The program supports model projects that can be widely replicated and 
encourages the use of promising practices in libraries and museums. 
Categories of funding for libraries and related organizations are: 
education and training in library and information science; research and 
demonstration projects to improve library services; and preservation or 
digitization of library materials and resources. Categories of funding 
for museums and related organizations are: the creation of online museum 
services; the involvement of museums in local community interests; and 
the promotion of professional practices. The program also supports a 
category that emphasizes improving services through innovative 
partnerships between libraries and museums.
General Operating Support Program  This program awards unrestricted 
grants to museums for ongoing institutional activities. General 
operating support, often cited as the most difficult type of money to 
raise, helps museums enhance their educational services, strengthen 
collections care, and raise funds from other sources.
Conservation Project Support Program  This program awards matching 
grants to help museums identify conservation needs and priorities and 
perform activities to ensure the safekeeping of their collections.
Museum Assessment Program  This program offers museums grants of 
technical assistance in three areas: institutional assessment, 
collections management assessment, and a public dimension assessment.
Conservation Assessment Program  The Conservation Assesment Program 
(CAP) serves as an adjunct to the IMLS Conservation Project Support 
Program. The program, which is funded by IMLS and administered by 
Heritage Preservation, a national nonprofit organization that promotes 
conservation and preservation, provides eligible museums with an 
alternative source of general conservation survey grants. Applications 
are funded on a first-come-first-served basis. Each museum may receive 
only one CAP grant. Museums that have received a grant for a general 
conservation survey through the Conservation Project Support Program are 
not eligible for CAP. For more information, contact the Conservation

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Assessment Program, Suite 566, 1730 K Street NW., Washington, DC 20006. 
Phone, 202-634-1422.
National Award for Museum Service  This program recognizes outstanding 
museums that provide meaningful public service for their communities.

Sources of Information

Electronic Access  Information about IMLS programs, application 
guidelines, and lists of grantees are available electronically. 
Internet, http://www.imls.gov/. E-mail, I[email protected].
Grants, Contracts, and Cooperative Agreements  For information about 
applying for IMLS funding, contact the appropriate program office. 
Museums should contact the Office of Museum Services, Institute of 
Museum and Library Services, Room 609, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., 
Washington, DC 20506 (phone, 202-606-8539). Libraries should contact the 
Office of Library Services, Institute of Museum and Library Services, 
Room 802, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506 (phone, 
202-606-5227).

For further information, contact the Office of Legislative and Public 
Affairs, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Room 510, 1100 
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506. Phone, 202-606-8536. 
Internet, http://www.imls.gov/. E-mail, I[email protected].

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