Modern Endangered Archives Program
2024-2025 Call for Applications
Preliminary Applications due November 15, 2024
The Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) invites applications for its seventh cohort of projects to document, digitize, and make accessible collections at risk from environmental conditions, political uncertainty, inherently unsustainable media, inappropriate storage, or communal and social change. All materials created with MEAP funding will be published on the open access UCLA Digital Library.
- Three Grant Opportunities. Planning Grants for organization, survey, and inventory work; Project Grants for digitization and metadata creation; and Regional Grants to create digital collections that include cultural heritage materials from three or more institutions, families, or archival repositories related to one theme, community or historical event.
- Global Access to Digital Collections. Explore over 70,000 unique digital objects from 23 countries on the UCLA Digital Library. All MEAP funded projects publish digital collections.
What We Fund
MEAP supports projects for documentation and digitization of at-risk cultural heritage from parts of the world with limited resources for archival preservation. MEAP funds a diverse range of projects, including multiple media formats from countries and communities around the world.
MEAP seeks applications that focus on preserving endangered collections from the 20th and 21st Centuries that reflect community voices, cultural expression, and historical experiences that have been left out of national narratives and archives. Collections must be held and digitization work completed outside North America, UK, and the Europe Union. See full eligibility requirements on the website.
Application
MEAP has a two-stage application process. All applicants are required to submit a Preliminary Application. Select applicants will then be invited to complete a Detailed Application.
All applications must be submitted in English through our Survey Monkey Apply portal. Application details and resources are available on the MEAP website. The Application portal will open on September 10, 2024.
Deadline
Preliminary applications are due on Monday, November 15, 2024 (11:59 pm Pacific Time).
Learn more
- Explore the 2024-25 Call for Applications–available in Arabic, Bengali, English, French, Indonesian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili.
- Visit our website at meap.library.ucla.edu. Find out more about current MEAP projects and explore Applicant Resources, including application templates and a detailed FAQ.
- Register for our live Applicant Webinar on Thursday, October 17, 2024. A recording will be available after the session.
- Explore all MEAP Digital Collections, now featuring over 70,000 objects from 23 countries.
- Join the MEAP mailing list for program updates, stories about grantees, and collection announcements.
The Modern Endangered Archives Program at the UCLA Library is funded by Arcadia, a charitable foundation that works to protect nature, preserve cultural heritage and promote open access to knowledge.