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Museums for America (MFA) is designed to strengthen the ability of individual museums to serve the public more effectively by supporting high-priority activities that advance their missions, plans, and strategic goals and objectives. MFA has three program goals—Lifelong Learning, Community Engagement, and Collections Stewardship and Access—with three associated objectives each. Museums Empowered: Professional Development Opportunities for Museum Staff, a special initiative of the MFA grant program, supports using the transformative power of professional development and training to generate systemic change within museums of all types and sizes. It has four program goals—Digital Technology; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Evaluation; and Organizational Management—with two associated objectives each. Inspire! Grants for Small Museums, a special initiative of the MFA program, supports small museums of all disciplines in project-based efforts to serve the public through exhibitions, educational/interpretive programs, digital learning resources, policy development and institutional planning, technology enhancements, professional development, community outreach, audience development, and/or collections management, curation, care, and conservation. It has one program goal—to build the capacity of small museums to provide museum services to their communities—with three associated objectives. Please see the Notice of Funding Opportunity for details of these grant programs' specific goals and objectives.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
For more information on each of these data sources, please see the
About the data page.
202 awards made in FY15
IMLS made 113 awards in Museums for America, 22 awards in Museums Empowered, and 53 awards in Inspire! Grants for Small Museums, for a total of 188 awards.
IMLS made 122 Museums for America awards, 19 Museums Empowered awards, and 77 Inspire! Grants for Small Museums awards, for a total of 218 awards.
IMLS made 115 Museums for America awards, 18 Museums Empowered awards, and 78 Inspire! Grants for Small Museums awards, for a total of 211 awards.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
