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About Planning Grants

Planning Grants can be used to evaluate or survey collections for digitization and/or curation. Successful projects create survey reports or item level inventories that document collections and prepare them for digitization.

New! These grants are funded for up to $20,000 and for up to one year of work.

Planning Grant Resources

These resources provide guidance related to documentation and survey projects.

Featured Projects

Check out some of our recently completed planning grants.

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    The Biobio Legacy: Mapuche-Pehuenche Organizing and Resistance in Chile
    Activism and Social Movements
    Latin America and the Caribbean
    Throughout the 1990’s to the early 2000’s, the indigenous Mapuche-Pehuenche community of Chile organized against plans to build hydroelectric dams in the historical BioBio River. Photographs, audio recordings, and organization documents capture the…
  • people at local market in India
    Visual Histories of Northeast India
    Photography
    South Asia
    A survey of Ahmed Hossain's photographic collection that depicts the socio-cultural life of Northeast India's tribal communities (1960s - 2000s)
  • torn document
    The Archives of the Women’s Movement in Sudan, 1940-2010
    Activism and Social Movements
    Africa
    The project seeks to create an archive of the women's movement in the Republic of Sudan by documenting the history of feminine and feminist movements that developed from the 1940s in the capital and three major urban centers (El Obeid, Wad Medani,…

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Before applying, make sure that you have reviewed the MEAP Program Guidelines and that you have confirmed your project's eligibility. When you are ready to apply, you can begin your application on our online application portal. All applications must be submitted in English.
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