Dear Yvonne and All,
I attended the National Humanities Alliance conference on Monday, and apparently in President Bush's budget, both NEH Div of Preservation and Access and the NEH Challenge Grant office have been recommended for a 25% cut each. NEH itself is recommended for flat funding in the President's budget, with the funds from P&A and Challenge to support "Picturing America" and possibly "We the People". The NHA is advocating a $32 million overall increase for NEH ($177 Million in funding), and it is hoped that such an increase will result in restored funding for Pres and Access and Challenge grants.
NHA's executive director, Jessica Irons, or Erin Smith, in charge of communications for NHA, may be good people to contact for advice. I raised concerns with my congressional delegation and advocated for the overall increase on Tuesday (Humanities Advocacy Day).
Kay Walter
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Katherine L. Walter
Chair, Digital Initiatives & Special Collections
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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To: padg@xxxxxxx
From: carignan <carignan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 03/06/2008 02:12PM
Subject: [padg] NEH Preservation and Access appropriate for 2009!
Dear Colleagues,
Has anyone seen that the NEH 2009 appropriation request for Preservation
and Access is $13,861,000 compared to $17,671,000 in 2008? Does anyone
know what got cut to the tune of 4 million dollars? Any ideas for what
to do to object?
See the 2009 request at http://www.neh.gov/pdf/NEH_BudgetReq_FY2009.pdf
compared to the 2008 request at
http://www.neh.gov/news/archive/20070205.html
Thanks for any insights,
Yvonne
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Yvonne Carignan
Library Director
Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
801 K Street, NW at Mount Vernon Square
Washington, D.C. 20001
202-383-1851