Application Help

This page contains a brief webinar explaining the 2023-2024 Groundwork Grants application process, a budget video walkthrough, as well as sample applications and our FAQ.

An updated 2025 webinar is coming.

Runtime: 13:40

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Sample Budget (2025)

Please ensure you add tax and shipping as a separate line item (see line 4). Tax and shipping can add significant costs to your requests, so it is important to include in your application. If you do not include tax and shipping where necessary, you will be asked to resubmit your application.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Eligibility

  • Visit the NEDCC Ready or Not page, or contact the NEDCC by email CAready@nedcc.org or by phone at 855-501-3020.

  • Yes! Applicants with emergency readiness assessments over 5 years old, such as previous free assessments through the California Preservation Program, are still valid. However, applicants should include supporting documentation to affirm that the recommendations in older assessments remain operative. If applicable, this documentation should also demonstrate the steps your organization has taken to address past recommendations.

  • You can still apply! We suggest teaming up with a partner who DOES qualify. This partner would be the applicant and they should indicate that they are serving as an administrator for your organization or collection.

  • Please contact us and we’ll let you know! If you can support this need with documentation, such as an emergency preparedness evaluation, we may be able to fund you.

Project Activities

  • Unfortunately, we cannot fund digitization through Groundwork Grants. Luckily, there are great options for you! Please visit our friends at California Revealed to apply for Digitization & Preservation Assistance.

  • Our colleagues at Conserv have provided us with information on environmental monitoring equipment, one of our pre-arranged goods and services offered. Please read Conserv’s Environmental Monitoring Equipment & Preventive Conservation Training slides (PDF) or watch a 6-minute explainer video for more information.

  • For goods and services offered by Myriad, specified in the guidelines and application, the purchase transaction will be handled by Myriad. In all other cases, the purchase transactions will be made by the grantee, using the grant funds received. If the total project cost exceeds $15,000, anything over that would have to be paid for through other revenue sources.

  • Our grant guideIines stipulate that all project expenditures must be made by March 31st, 2026. Project expenditures are all purchases needed for the grant. For example: If you request funding for rehousing supplies, the purchase of those supplies must be complete by March 31st, 2026, not the rehousing itself.

Tech Support and More

  • Yes! Please visit our contact page to submit a question, or schedule a meeting with a member of our team.

  • We understand and we’re here to help! Please email our Program Officer for assistance at joana@myriadconsultants.org.

  • Please submit a message via our contact page or the listed email/phone.