SAA Foundation Opportunity Grant
SAA Foundation Opportunity Grant supports archival repositories and affiliated archivists with timely funding for unplanned archival projects, helping them respond to unexpected opportunities.
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Funder: Society of American Archivists Foundation
Due Dates: Rolling (until funds are allocated) | 24th of each month, 5:00 PM CT (next-month review cutoff)
Funding Amounts: $300–$2,500 USD; no matching funds required; projects completed within eight months of award
Summary: Supports archival repositories and affiliated archivists responding to unexpected, time-sensitive opportunities requiring timely external funding.
Key Information: Applicants must serve publicly accessible collections through a nonprofit archival repository; unaffiliated archivists and independent scholars are ineligible.
Description
The Society of American Archivists Foundation’s Opportunity Grant supports unplanned archival projects that would otherwise be out of reach without timely external financial support. Applicants must explain the unexpected opportunity and demonstrate why it requires an urgent response. Unlike the Foundation’s Catalyst Grant, which supports planned, complex, longer-term projects, this program addresses opportunities whose costs were not anticipated in a repository’s budget.
Supported work may include evaluating a potential archival donation, traveling to survey a collection, or packing and shipping donated materials under a short deadline. Training to develop expertise needed to evaluate a potential acquisition containing born-digital materials is another example. These examples illustrate the program’s scope, rather than establish priorities among project types.
