If you are seeking funding for documenting endangered culture, you may be eligible to apply to one of our regranting programmes.
Our regranting programmes help our funding reach further and support a wide range of small-scale projects, often developed locally by communities. Our cultural regranting programmes fund projects to digitize archives and to document highly endangered languages, material knowledge (that is, making things), and traditions of wooden architecture.
Our regranting programmes are hosted at partner institutions who make and manage the project grants on our behalf. The programmes select grants through an annual open competition, led by an expert panel. Endangerment of the cultural material is a key selection criterion, and all programmes prioritize the documentation of culture heritage outside of North America and Europe.
For more information on each programme, eligibility and the application process, please contact the relevant programme.
If your project will digitize an existing archive or archives (such as collections of manuscripts, books, pamphlets, documents, magnetic tapes, videocassettes, floppy disks, born-digital files, etc.):
Modern Endangered Archives Program (University of California Los Angeles) for archives whose material is generally newer than the 1950s.
Colonial archives in St Helena suffering from insect damage. Courtesy of the British Library.
Intangible heritage
These programmes primarily fund new audio-visual field recordings. They also have limited funding available to digitize "legacy" collections of relevant existing documentation.
If your project will document an endangered language:
For the documentation of non-wooden architecture or woodworking skills not specific to buildings, the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme may be a more appropriate source of funding.
Pinisi in construction in Tanah Beru, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Credit: Università di Napoli “L’Orientale and Universitas Indonesia.
