The James Marston Fitch Charitable
Trust will award research grants to mid-career professionals who have an
academic background, professional experience, and an established identity
in one or more of the following fields: historic preservation, architecture,
landscape architecture, urban design, environmental planning, architectural
history, the decorative arts. The Foundation will consider proposals for
the research and /or execution of the preservation-related projects in any
of these fields. The grants are not visualized as prizes for past accomplishments,
but rather to support innovative original research and creative design. The
grants are intended to promote the practice of historic preservation; the
project must demonstrate usefulness to practitioners and the results must
be in publishable form.
The Foundation will award grants for research and projects which
will pursue issues and problems concerned with the United States. The Foundation
endeavors to establish new links between the academic and professional contingents
in the field of historic preservation and to strengthen the connections between
theory and practice in conservation technology. Thus, special attention will
be paid to projects which have an educational potential - to projects, that
is, which in their execution will involve students and beginning professionals
in interdisciplinary work experience while enriching the knowledge of more
advanced professionals and their colleagues.
Grants
are awarded only to individuals (not organizations). Applicants must be
mid-career professionals with at least 10 years experience in historic preservation
or related fields, including architecture, landscape architecture, architectural
conservation, urban design, environmental planning, archaeology, architectural
history, and the decorative arts.
Qualification
Applicants
are required to submit four (4) copies of the following:
Brief
description of project including work product, not to exceed three (3) pages.
Applicants are encouraged to be succinct.
Detailed
chedule of work and budget showing the amount requested and how the grant
money will be spent.
Curriculum
Vita, including professional and academic background and past and present
grants receive.
Two
(2) letters of support for the project to be included with the application.
Please
note that materials submitted for review with proposals will not be returned.
To verify receipt, please send a stamped, self-addressed postcard.
The next application deadline is in
September 15, 2006.
Applications
are reviewed by the Trustees. The criteria for selection are:
A
demonstrated need for the proposed study and evidence of its value to advance
the practice of historic preservation in the United States.
Background,
qualifications and professional experience of the applicant, who must be
a mid-career professional with at least 10 years experience in historic preservation
or related fields, including architecture, landscape architecture, architectural
conservation, urban design, environmental planning, archaeology, architectural
history, and the decorative arts.
Feasibility
of the proposed research, work product, schedule and budget.
Complete
submittal of all of the requirements
Award and Completion
Recipients
will be notified by mail in the following Spring. Awarding of the grant is
at the discretion of the foundation. The award is divided into equal payments,
the first being presented upon award of the grant. Projects are required
to be completed within twelve (12) months of the grant award, except where
an extension is approved by the Trustees. Substantial written progress reports
are required for the 2nd and the 3rd payments. The final payment is awarded
only after completion of the project.
The final
project shall consist of one (1) complete original and two (2) complete copies.
The Foundation shall be acknowledged in all publications. The Trustees encourage
publication and reserve the right to publish the results if the recipient
does not. The grant recipient must sign a release to the Foundation permitting
such publication. Proper credit will be given to the grant recipient.
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Mid-Career Grant Program
