American Alliance of Museums
Since 1981, the Museum Assessment Program (MAP) has helped small and mid-sized museums improve operations across all stages of an organizational life cycle. Get your museum “MAPped” – join the more than 5,000 museums who have participated in the program! Museums that participate emerge with thorough assessments of their strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities; a prioritized roadmap for improving operations and meeting standards; and a foundation for future core document verification, accreditation and re-accreditation. Learn more and sign up for updates about the 2024 application.
Balboa Art Conservation Center
For more than 45 years, BACC has been fulfilling its mission as a nonprofit art conservation and cultural preservation organization to provide conservation and preservation services for works of art, cultural objects, and historic artifacts. Its highly trained conservators offer a rigorous and scientific approach to the preservation, examination, and treatment of cultural heritage objects. As a nonprofit organization, BACC is committed to benefiting the public good by supporting training and education opportunities and partnering with stewards of community cultural collections. BACC is expanding access to the field of conservation to historically underrepresented communities by growing the existing knowledge base to include culturally conscious and responsive methods of conservation and preservation.
Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the first federally managed, off-reservation boarding school for Native American children and young adults. The Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center represents an effort to aid the research process of Carlisle descendants and scholars by bringing together, in digital format, a variety of materials that are physically preserved in various locations around the country. Through this online resource, we seek to increase knowledge and understanding of the school and its complex legacy, while also facilitating efforts to tell the stories of the roughly 7,800 students who were sent there between 1879 and 1918.
Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts
Established in 1977 in Philadelphia, the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) is a nonprofit organization delivering a wide range of conservation and preservation services. Its mission is to provide expertise and leadership in the preservation of cultural heritage. CCAHA’s conservators repair and stabilize books, photographs, and documents. CCAHA’s preservation services staff works in the field providing education programs and helping institutions plan for the future of their collections. CCAHA offers a range of digitization and reproduction services, as well as fundraising assistance, housing and framing, and more.
Craft Emergency Relief Fund
The Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF+) is a nonprofit service organization that provides disaster readiness education, resources and funding for preparedness measures for craft artists looking to safeguard their practice. We also provide emergency and disaster relief for craft artists who experience a disruption in their practice affecting their livelihood. Come by to learn more about services and resources to support your craft practice.
Council on Library and Information Resources
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is an independent, nonprofit organization that supports the works of libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions through promotion, publication, and programs. Stop by the CLIR booth to meet staff and learn about our current digitization grant programs, fellowship opportunities, and other exciting projects on the horizon.
Foundation for Advancement in Conservation
The Foundation for Advancement in Conservation offers free and low-cost programs to help you care for your collections. Visit us to learn about our Connecting to Collections Care webinars, Collections Assessment for Preservation program, and emergency response and recovery resources.
Live Oak Consulting
We can help bridge the gap between Native communities and the organizations that represent their art, cultures, and histories. Live Oak Consulting offer cultural awareness and decolonization trainings, provides all facets of exhibition development and installation, collections care and NAGPRA related work, education and outreach program development, evaluation, and strategic planning.
Midwest Art Conservation Center
The Midwest Art Conservation Center (MACC) is a nonprofit organization for the preservation and conservation of art and artifacts, providing treatment, education, and training for museums, historical societies, libraries, archives, government entities, other cultural institutions, artists, and the public.
National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) is committed to the transformative potential of education, advocacy, and healing initiatives in response to an era characterized by child removal and cultural genocide. In addition to programs designed to support community-led healing and build awareness, NABS will be on-site to preview the use of its boarding school records platform: the National Indian Boarding School Digital Archives (NIBSDA). As an imperative to illuminating boarding school history, NIBSDA was conceptualized to serve as a national authoritative digital repository for boarding school archival collections throughout the United States.
Northeast Document Conservation Center
The nonprofit NEDCC provides conservation treatment, digital imaging, audio preservation, training, and consultations to cultural organizations nationwide. The Center’s conservators offer a wide range of expertise in the treatment of rare and fragile paper-based materials, including photographs, books, maps, and works of art on paper. NEDCC’s digitization services are performed by collections photographers with experience in the care and handling of significant materials. The Center’s Audio Preservation engineers offer 100% attended transfers of audio recordings. The Center’s Preservation Specialists offer different types of assessments to evaluate collections, as well as educational programs to help cultural institutions preserve their valuable collections.
School for Advanced Research
The School for Advanced Research advances understanding of humanity through a unique alchemy of creative practice and scholarly research in Native American arts, anthropology, and related disciplines. The Indian Arts Research Center, a division of SAR, houses a collection of over 12,000 items of Native Southwest art and history and supports the past, present, and future of Native arts through its many initiatives including its artist fellowship and museum internship programs. .
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Anthropology Department
The School for Advanced Research advances understanding of humanity through a unique alchemy of creative practice and scholarly research in Native American arts, anthropology, and related disciplines. The Indian Arts Research Center, a division of SAR, houses a collection of over 12,000 items of Native Southwest art and history and supports the past, present, and future of Native arts through its many initiatives including its artist fellowship and museum internship programs. .
Society of American Archivists
The Society of American Archivists is North America’s oldest and largest national professional association dedicated to the needs and interests of archives and archivists. SAA represents more than 6,200 professional archivists employed by governments, universities, businesses, libraries, and historical organizations nationally. All of the work undertaken by SAA on behalf of its members and archives users is guided by our vision, mission, and core values.
Society of Southwest Archivists
The Society of American Archivists is North America’s oldest and largest national professional association dedicated to the needs and interests of archivists. SAA’s Native American Archives Section, founded in 2005, serves as a forum for archivists, librarians, museum curators, and others working with Native American collections to communicate about issues and share opportunities in the field. With endorsement of the “Protocols for Native American Archival Materials” in 2018, SAA has committed to providing information (via case studies) and education (via workshops) to assist individuals in navigating and implementing the Protocols.
Universal Service Administrative Company
The Universal Service Fund helps communities and people across the U.S. stay connected to the information, resources, and care they need.
Vision Maker Media
Vision Maker Media (VMM) is the premier source of public media by and about Native Americans and Alaska Natives since 1976. Many of the titles seen on local PBS stations are available for purchase at visionmakermedia.org/shop. Based at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, VMM has expertise in film and video archives.