Obtain Funding For Your Conservation Project
The Midwest Art Conservation Center is ready and available to help your institution get funding for your preservation and conservation needs. Our staff has helped hundreds of institutions raise funds for preservation projects ranging from initial surveys and conservation treatments to new storage facilities and buildings. MACC staff can:
- Identify potential funding sources
- Provide expertise for project consulting
- Assist with the writing of Long Range Conservation Plans
- Consult on federal, state and private foundation funding protocols
- Identify priorities for preservation and conservation projects
- Help with the establishment of project budgets and time lines
- Provide state-of-the-art general surveys, storage surveys, and Object by Object collection surveys
- Consult on in-house fund raising projects
- Provide proper preservation and conservation terminology for funding proposals
- Review drafts of grant proposal applications
- Submit letters of recommendation
Establishing a Long Range Conservation Plan with a thoughtful funding strategy is the key to success in raising money for preservation and conservation projects. What most institutions don't realize is that Federal and State Granting Agencies and many private funders follow an unwritten protocol to determine the most successful applicants.The Midwest Art Conservation Center can help your institution navigate through the many complicated stages of the grant writing and funding process. MACC is especially familiar with preservation planning and has successfully assisted numerous institutions in identifying and obtaining funding for their conservation and preservation projects. For more information and assistance, contact MACC at (612) 870-3120 or e-mail info@preserveart.org