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The
Illinois Association of Museums (IAM) has established the Museum
Grant Program to assist member institutions to increase knowledge
of professional skills in accepted museum practices; to better
preserve, exhibit, and interpret their collections; and to
better serve their communities.
2011-12 GRANT DEADLINE WAS NOVEMBER 1
Here is the 2011-12 Grant Guidelines file in Word format (.doc).
Eligibility Requirements:
To benefit from the IAM Museum Grant Program, a museum must:
1. be an institutional member in good standing of
the Illinois Association of Museums;
2. own or utilize tangible objects;
3. care for those objects and exhibit them to the public on a
regular schedule (this standard is interpreted to mean open to
the public
for a minimum of forty days per year);
4. be a non-profit organization, and it must have applied for
or received recognition as a tax-exempt organization (501(c)(3))
with
the federal Internal Revenue Service (IRS); or, as a museum,
must be a non-profit organization or an agency or instrumentality
of
a state or local jurisdiction such as a county or city, or an
institution of higher learning at the time of application for
a grant.
Preference will be given to museums in the following
order:
1. Museums that have not received an IAM grant
in the past
2. Small museums with limited budgets and all volunteer
staff
3. Small museums with limited budgets and a single paid
staff person
4. Museums with limited budgets and fewer than ten staff
members
5. Museums with ten to twenty-five staff members
6. Museums with more than twenty-five staff
members
Museums may apply for only one
IAM Museum Grant per year. Museum consortia and partnerships may
apply for an IAM
museum grant if all of the
member museums are IAM members.
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