FY2020 Historic Preservation Fund- History of Equal Rights- Preservation Grants | P21AS00201

Opportunity Information: Apply for P21AS00201

The FY2020 Historic Preservation Fund - History of Equal Rights - Preservation Grants opportunity (National Park Service opportunity number P21AS00201) is a competitive grant program run by the National Park Service (NPS) using money from the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF). Its central purpose is to help preserve historic places that are connected to the long struggle for equal rights in the United States. The program is meant to support preservation work that keeps these sites standing, documented, and accessible so that the public can better understand the people, movements, and events that shaped efforts to secure equal rights.

This specific announcement focuses on preservation-related projects for historic sites and can cover a wide range of work. Fundable activities include professional architectural services, the preparation of historic structure reports, the development of preservation plans, and hands-on physical preservation work to historic structures. In practice, that means an applicant could seek support for planning and documentation that guides future treatment of a site, or for direct repair and stabilization work that addresses threats to the building or resource. The program does not require a non-federal cost share, which removes the typical matching requirement that can be a barrier for many preservation projects.

Applicants need to pay attention to the fact that NPS issued separate announcements for certain African American Civil Rights-related projects. P21AS00200 is specifically for physical preservation projects at African American historic sites, and P21AS00199 is specifically for African American historical research and documentation projects. This matters because the NPS expects proposals to be submitted under the correct opportunity number based on the project type and focus. P21AS00201, the opportunity summarized here, is the History of Equal Rights preservation grants announcement, and applicants should confirm that their proposed scope fits this listing rather than the separate African American-focused funding tracks.

Eligibility is broad across public, nonprofit, and tribal entities. Eligible applicants include state governments and a wide variety of local government types (including counties, cities or townships, and special districts), independent school districts, and public or state-controlled institutions of higher education. Nonprofit organizations may apply whether or not they hold 501(c)(3) status (as long as they are otherwise eligible and are not institutions of higher education). Eligible tribal applicants include federally recognized Native American tribal governments as well as other Native American tribal organizations, and the description also references eligibility for Federally Recognized Indian Tribes, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiian Organizations as defined in 54 USC 300300. A key restriction is that grants are not available for sites or collections owned by the NPS, so projects must be tied to non-NPS-owned resources.

From the funding details provided, this is a discretionary grant (not a formula allocation) and uses a grant instrument. The program is associated with CFDA number 15.904. The maximum award amount (award ceiling) is listed as $500,000. The posting indicates an original closing date of January 12, 2021, and a creation date of November 9, 2020. Overall, this opportunity is designed to help a wide range of eligible organizations plan for and carry out preservation work at historic places that tell the story of equal rights struggles in America, with the practical advantage of being competitive funding that does not require a non-federal match.

• The National Park Service in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY2020 Historic Preservation Fund- History of Equal Rights- Preservation Grants" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.904.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2020-11-09.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2021-01-12. (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 $500,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.

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