[Ncpcnews-l] FW: NCPC Listservs

[Fansler, Robert C.]

Friday, March 7, 2008 
  
As you may know, the President's Budget Request for the National
Endowment for the Humanities for Fiscal Year 2009 (FY09) calls for
nearly $7 million in cuts to the Preservation & Access and Challenge
Grants divisions.  The Preservation & Access Division would be cut by
$4.519 million, decreasing funding from the FY08 level of $18.4M to
$13.9M (rounded).  Within Preservation & Access, the Stabilization
Grants category would be completely eliminated ($3.6M in stabilization
grants were awarded in FY07). Challenge Grants would be cut by $2.2M,
from $9.3M in FY08 to $7.1M in FY09 -- endowment grants in particular
have been targeted.       
  
NHA will be submitting testimony to the House Interior Appropriations
Subcommittee on April 3rd.  If your organization or members are directly
affected by the proposed cuts, NHA would like to know.  I would also
appreciate any examples of ways in which these grants have been useful,
and continue to have a positive impact.  Please respond by email or in
writing (postal mail).  I will be out of the office through March 12,
and will use this information to help draft our testimony when I return.

  
Many thanks, 
  
Jessica Jones Irons 
Executive Director 
National Humanities Alliance 
21 Dupont Circle NW, Suite 800 
Washington, DC 20036 
202.296.4994 x149 
jirons at nhalliance.org

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