NAGPRA Consultation/Documentation Grants FY2019 | P19AS00010

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The NAGPRA Consultation/Documentation Grants FY2019 opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number P19AS00010) is a discretionary grant program offered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, to support work carried out under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The core purpose of this funding is to help eligible applicants complete consultation and documentation activities that move NAGPRA cultural items toward clear decisions about control, appropriate treatment, and final disposition. In practical terms, the program is meant to help institutions and communities do the detailed, often time-intensive work needed to identify, understand, and responsibly address Native American cultural items held in collections.

This grant focuses on two closely related project types: consultation and documentation. Consultation projects are designed to support direct engagement between institutions and Tribal governments or other appropriate parties as they compile or revise NAGPRA inventories and as they make or respond to requests connected to items listed in a NAGPRA summary. This can include the structured communication and coordination needed to review collections information, clarify what items are covered, and ensure that consultation is meaningful and well recorded. The program is essentially supporting the steps that help inventories and summaries become more accurate, complete, and actionable, with consultation serving as the bridge between collections-holding entities and affiliated or potentially affiliated Native communities.

Documentation projects, by contrast, emphasize research and fact-finding that helps establish the foundational information necessary to make NAGPRA determinations. These projects support efforts to determine the geographical origin of items, assess cultural affiliation, and document other key facts about how Native American cultural items were acquired. The intent is to build a reliable record that can be used during consultation and decision-making, especially in situations where provenance is unclear, records are incomplete, or historical collecting practices left gaps that must be addressed through systematic documentation. Both consultation and documentation are framed as practical pathways to resolving questions of ownership or control and to determining next steps for care and disposition consistent with NAGPRA.

The opportunity is open to a broad set of applicants, reflecting the range of entities that may hold or work with collections affected by NAGPRA. Eligible applicants include state, county, and city or township governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; and eligible nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education institutions). The listing also indicates that additional applicant types may be eligible under the program rules, depending on the specific eligibility clarification provided in the full announcement.

From an administrative standpoint, this is a grant (Funding Instrument Type: Grant) in a discretionary category, with funding activities tied to areas such as arts and cultural affairs, education, humanities, law and legal services, and related fields. The program is associated with CFDA number 15.922. The announcement was created on December 21, 2018, and the original application closing date was March 8, 2019. Individual awards could be as large as $90,000 (the award ceiling), and the program anticipated making about 25 awards. Overall, the opportunity is aimed at supporting concrete, well-defined consultation and documentation work that results in better-supported determinations and progress toward appropriate handling and repatriation-related outcomes under NAGPRA.

• The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the arts (see cultural affairs in cfda), education, humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda), law, justice and legal services, other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "NAGPRA Consultation/Documentation Grants FY2019" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.922.
• This funding opportunity was created on Dec 21, 2018.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Mar 08, 2019. (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 $90,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 25 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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