Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services (2023) | NANH FY23

Opportunity Information: Apply for NANH FY23

The Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services (NANH) grant program (FY23) is a discretionary grant opportunity offered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to strengthen and sustain Native heritage, culture, and knowledge. The program is focused on supporting projects that help Native communities tell their stories, care for culturally significant materials, and build long-term organizational strength. Funded activities can include exhibitions that interpret and present community history and culture, educational services and public programming that share knowledge across generations, and collections stewardship work that improves the care, documentation, storage, conservation, and overall management of museum collections. The opportunity also emphasizes investments in people and institutions through workforce and professional development, as well as organizational capacity building, so that eligible entities can expand skills, improve systems, and increase sustainability beyond the life of a single grant.

This opportunity is listed under the arts and humanities funding activity categories (with cultural affairs alignment in CFDA), and carries CFDA number 45.308. The funding instrument is a grant. The program is intended for Indian tribes and for organizations that primarily serve and represent Native Hawaiians, with eligibility described broadly in the listing as "Others" and clarified in the official guidance referenced by IMLS. In practical terms, the focus is on Native-led or Native-serving entities that can demonstrate how the proposed work directly benefits the communities and cultural responsibilities the program is meant to support.

For the FY23 cycle, the funding opportunity number is "NANH FY23." The application window opened around the creation date of August 15, 2022, and the original closing date was November 15, 2022. Individual awards could be as large as $100,000 (the award ceiling), and IMLS anticipated making about 26 awards. Overall, the grant is structured to help eligible applicants carry out concrete, mission-driven projects that preserve cultural knowledge, improve access and education, and strengthen the operational foundations needed to steward collections and deliver programming in a sustained, community-centered way.

• The Institute of Museum and Library Services in the arts (see cultural affairs in cfda), humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services (2023)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.308.
• This funding opportunity was created on Aug 15, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Nov 15, 2022. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $100,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 26 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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