Please visit the Richard Blinder Award grant application
webpage
for guidelines and application requirements.
The James Marston Fitch
Charitable Foundation 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.
Grants
are awarded only to individuals, not
organizations. The Foundation does not fund
university-sponsored research projects.
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.
Please
call or email us with
any questions concerning project eligibility or the application
requirements.
Qualification
Applicants
are required to submit seven (7)
copies of the following:
Cover page including the following: project
title, name of applicant(s) including primary contact person, applicant
address, phone, and email. Please specify which grant you seek -
Fitch Mid-Career or Richard Blinder Award.
<>Brief
description of project including work product. This description
is not to exceed three (3)
pages.
Applicants are encouraged to be succinct.
Detailed
schedule 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 received.
Two
(2) letters of support for the project to be included with the
application. Please include seven
(7) copies of each letter of support.
Applications should be stapled, clipped, or
spiral-bound. Please no three-ring binders or folders.
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
Friday, September 19, 2008 (postmark deadline).
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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