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21st Century Museum Professionals Program (2025)
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Service Source Final Application Due Date Funding Available Match Required
Arts, Culture & Humanities Federal
IMLS
11-15-2024 $2.0 M Match Required
  • Service
  • Source
  • Final Application Due Date
  • Funding Available
  • Match Required
Status
  • Past
  • Current
  • Forecasted
  • $100,000
  • $500,000
  • Award Floor
  • Award Ceiling
    • Expected Number of Awards 8
    • Opportunity Type Discretionary
    • CFDA

      45.032 -- 21st Century Museum Professional Program

    Description

    The 21st Century Museum Professional (21MP) grant program supports projects that offer professional development to the current museum workforce, train and recruit future museum professionals, and identify and share effective practices in museum workforce education and training. IMLS recognizes the important role of strong local and regional networks in providing peer-to-peer learning, training, and mentoring opportunities for the museum workforce. Partnerships among museums, museum-serving organizations, and institutions of higher education are vital to expanding career pathways for broad groups of museum professionals throughout a city, county, state, region, or the nation. The 21MP Program encourages applications from museum associations, museum studies programs at institutions of higher education, and museums that serve as essential parts of the professional learning and training environment.

    Eligibility
    • IHE
    • Local Government
    • Non-Profit
    • Other
    • State Government
    • Tribal Government
    Additional Eligibility Information

    See the Notice of Funding Opportunity for program eligibility criteria. IMLS is extending the deadline for the 21st Century Museum Professional grant program from November 15, 2024, to December 13, 2024, for institutions located in Federally declared emergency and/or major disaster areas who have not been able to meet the current November 15, 2024, deadline because they have been adversely impacted by such emergencies and/or disasters. An affected organization must, by December 13 at 11:59pm EST, submit its completed application with a written statement from its Authorizing Official that: • Specifies the applicable Emergency Declaration and/or Major Disaster Declaration for the area in which the applicant organization is located (see FEMA’s listing of Declared Disasters https://www.fema.gov/disaster/declarations) and • Confirms that the applicant organization was unable to meet the original application deadline of November 15, 2024, due to the emergency or disaster. This statement should be prepared as a Supporting Document and uploaded as part of the application submitted through Grants.gov. For those applicants who have not been adversely affected by such emergencies and/or disasters, the deadline remains November 15, 2024, at 11:59pm EST.

    Key Date(s)
    • August 15, 2024: Posted Date
    • November 09, 2024: Last Updated Date
    • November 15, 2024: Current Closing Date for Applications
    • November 15, 2024: Application Due Date
    Contact Information

    Mark Isaksen

    Supervisory Grants Management Specialist misaksen@imls.gov imls-museumgrants@imls.gov

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