Community Collections Grant

The Community Collections Grants from the American Folklife Center (AFC) fund and support contemporary cultural field research and documentation within diverse communities. Available to Individuals and Organizations, the grants offer up to $50,000 each to support projects within their communities to produce ethnographic cultural documentation, such as of interviews with community members and audio-visual recordings of cultural activity, from the community perspective. The center will archive the collections from grant projects to preserve and showcase this rich and valuable cultural documentation, expanding its representation and inclusion of contemporary cultural expressions and traditions that may otherwise be absent from the national record.

The program is open to US-based Individual applicants and non-profit Organizations (subject to 26 U.S.C. 501 c (3)), including institutions of higher education, colleges and universities, as well as professional associations and community groups. For 2023, the Library intends to award ten 12-month grants of up to $50,000 each.

Note: there are separate applications and related informational materials for Individual applicants and Organization applicants, see below for more information.

Questions about this grant program may be submitted through JULY 15, 2022 to AFC-grants@loc.gov.

Applications are open MAY 31, 2022 through the AUGUST 1, 2022 @ noon EST deadline.