[MassHistPres] Announcing MHC FY20 Survey and Planning Grant Round: Pre-Applications Now Available

[Steinitz, Michael (SEC)]

Dear Fellow Preservationists:

I am writing to announce the beginning of the Massachusetts Historical Commission (MHC) Fiscal Year 2020 Survey and Planning Grant cycle.   For the FY 2020 round, eligible applicants will include all local historical commissions, local historic district commissions, municipal planning offices, and other public and non-profit historic preservation organizations.  At the time of this writing total available funding for the FY 2020 matching grant round is still contingent on MHC's FY 2020 federal budget allocation, which has not yet been determined.  For FY 2020 the MHC/Grantee match shares will be 50/50.

As the State Historic Preservation Office, the Massachusetts Historical Commission is responsible for administering the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended. The Act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, through the National Park Service and State Historic Preservation Offices, to grant funds to communities and private non-profit organizations for a wide range of preservation related activities. These include completion of cultural resource inventories, nomination of significant properties to the National Register of Historic Places, completion of community-wide preservation plans, and other types of studies, reports, publications and projects that relate to the identification and protection of significant historic properties and sites. The goal of the Survey and Planning Grant program is to support efforts to identify and plan for the protection of the significant historic buildings, structures, archaeological sites and landscapes of the Commonwealth.

With this announcement, the MHC is initiating the Fiscal Year 2020 grant round of funding for Certified Local Governments (CLGs), municipal historic preservation commissions, non-profit organizations and other eligible applicants.   (MHC is required under federal law to pass through 10% of its annual federal budget allocation to CLGs.  CLGs in Massachusetts are the municipalities of Boston, Bedford, Brookline, Danvers, Eastham, Easton, Falmouth, Framingham, Gloucester, Grafton, Hingham, Holyoke, Lexington, Lowell, Marblehead, Medfield, Medford, Methuen, New Bedford, Newton, Plymouth, Quincy, Salem, Somerville, and Worcester.)  In Fiscal Year 2020 the grant program will be available to both CLG and non-CLG municipalities, as well as other qualified applicants.

A Survey and Planning grant can provide critical support for projects that help to preserve the character of your community. Please consider applying for a grant by completing a pre application and returning it to the Massachusetts Historical Commission by Monday, November 18, 2019, 5 p.m. (no faxed or emailed applications accepted).  Additional information, guidelines and the pre-application form are available on MHC's web site at: http://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/mhchpp/Surveyandplanning.htm

Michael Steinitz
Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer
Director, Preservation Planning Division
Massachusetts Historical Commission
220 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125
617-727-8470
617-727-5128 (fax)
michael.steinitz at state.ma.us

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