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.
Donor Name: Institute of Museum and Library Services
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/15/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Institute of Museum and Library Services 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.
Institute of Museum and Library Services expects successful 21MP projects to:
- reflect a thorough understanding of relevant theory and effective practice in workforce training and professional development for the museum field;
- involve partnerships that build career pathways and strengthen professional networks beyond a single institution;
- employ inclusive and equitable recruitment and selection strategies to reach target audiences; and
- engage museum staff, leadership, or volunteers at any stage of career development.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $ 2,000,000.
- Award Ceiling: $500,000.
- Award Floor: $100,000.
Grant Period
July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2028.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for an award under the ALHC program, your organization must meet all three of the following eligibility criteria:
- Your organization must be:
- a unit of State, local, or Tribal government; or
- a private, nonprofit organization that has tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
- Your organization must be located in:
- one of the 50 States of the United States of America,
- the District of Columbia,
- the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,
- the U.S. Virgin Islands,
- Guam,
- American Samoa,
- the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands,
- the Republic of the Marshall Islands,
- the Federated States of Micronesia, or
- the Republic of Palau.
- Your organization must qualify as one of the following:
- A museum that:
- uses a professional staff;
- is organized on a permanent basis for essentially educational, cultural heritage, or aesthetic purposes;
- owns or uses tangible objects, including living collections;
- cares for these objects; and
- exhibits these objects to the general public on a regular basis through facilities that it owns or operates.
- A museum that:
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