--- title: "A Winning Partnership for NEH Collections Stewardship Grants: George Blood LP & Aviary" description: Explore how George Blood LP and Aviary can enhance your NEH Collections Stewardship grant proposal, transforming AV collections from digitization to public access. --- [![Aviary](https://www.aviaryplatform.com/na_images/aviary-logo.png)](https://www.aviaryplatform.com) [Discover](https://www.aviaryplatform.com/catalog?search_field=advanced&search_type=simple&title_text=&type_of_search[]=simple) [Pricing](https://www.aviaryplatform.com/pricing) [Features](https://www.aviaryplatform.com/features) [Case Studies](https://www.aviaryplatform.com/case_studies) [Insights](https://insights.aviaryplatform.com/aviary-insights) [About](https://www.aviaryplatform.com/about) [Discover](https://www.aviaryplatform.com/catalog?search_field=advanced&search_type=simple&title_text=&type_of_search[]=simple) [Pricing](https://www.aviaryplatform.com/pricing) [Features](https://www.aviaryplatform.com/features) [Case Studies](https://www.aviaryplatform.com/case_studies) [Insights](https://insights.aviaryplatform.com/aviary-insights) [About](https://www.aviaryplatform.com/about) [Skip to content](https://insights.aviaryplatform.com/aviary-insights/neh-stewardship-grants#main-content) Aviary audiovisual AV # A Winning Partnership for NEH Collections Stewardship Grants: George Blood LP & Aviary ![Kevin Glick](https://insights.aviaryplatform.com/hs-fs/hubfs/4562_zucker20211026.jpg?width=48&height=48&name=4562_zucker20211026.jpg) Kevin Glick April 17, 2026 **![NEHCollectionsStewardship](https://insights.aviaryplatform.com/hs-fs/hubfs/NEHCollectionsStewardship.jpg?width=2516&height=417&name=NEHCollectionsStewardship.jpg)Two trusted names in AV preservation — working together to take your grant project from digitization to discovery.** The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has opened applications for its [**Collections Stewardship** grant program](https://www.neh.gov/program/collections-stewardship), offering awards of up to **$350,000 for individual organizations** and up to **$500,000 for consortia**, with project periods of up to three years. The first deadline is **May 11, 2026**, with a second deadline of December 15, 2026. For institutions with audiovisual collections in need of preservation and public access, this grant represents a significant opportunity — and a partnership between [**George Blood LP**](https://georgeblood.com/) and [**Aviary**](https://aviaryplatform.com) can help you make the most of it. ## **The Challenge: AV Collections That Deserve a Wider Audience** Libraries, archives, museums, and universities are custodians of irreplaceable AV materials — oral histories, field recordings, broadcast archives, ethnographic film, and more. Many of these collections sit on deteriorating analog formats, inaccessible to researchers and the public. The NEH Collections Stewardship program is designed to change that, funding projects that preserve and open up collections for research, teaching, and public engagement. Specifically, the program supports: **Digitizing or reformatting collections** and making them available for public use through websites or digital repositories **Arranging and describing** archival collections, including sound recordings and moving images **Transcribing, translating, or indexing** primary source materials This is precisely where George Blood LP and Aviary come in — each handling a critical phase of the work, and together covering the full arc from endangered original to fully accessible digital collection. ## **George Blood LP: Expert Digitization You Can Trust** [George Blood LP](https://georgeblood.com/) is one of the country's leading providers of archival audio and moving image preservation. With more than 35 years of experience serving universities, libraries, and archives nationally and internationally, George Blood LP brings deep expertise to the digitization phase of any grant project. Their team of professional engineers, preservationists, and information science specialists handles virtually all analog and digital audio and video formats, and is widely recognized for their care with unique and irreplaceable collections — including oral histories, musical performances, and broadcast archives. When your grant project calls for trusted, standards-based digitization, George Blood LP is the right partner. ## **Aviary: From Digital Files to Public Discovery** Once digitized, your collection needs a home — one built for AV media and designed for meaningful public access. That's where Aviary comes in. Aviary is a purpose-built platform for hosting, describing, and sharing audio and video collections. Within a single environment, project teams can: **Arrange and describe** collections with robust metadata tools tailored for AV materials **Transcribe, translate, and index** primary sources, with transcripts and annotations linked directly to time-coded media **Publish collections** as richly searchable, embeddable repositories accessible to researchers and the public Every one of these functions maps directly to NEH-eligible activities — and all of them happen in Aviary. ## **Seamless Integration, Start to Finish** The George Blood LP + Aviary partnership is designed to make your grant project flow smoothly from physical media to public access. George Blood LP's digitization outputs integrate directly into Aviary's ingest workflow, eliminating friction between the preservation phase and the access phase. Your team gets a coherent, end-to-end pipeline — and NEH reviewers see a project with a clear, credible path to impact. For grant applicants, this matters. A proposal that can demonstrate not just *how* materials will be digitized, but *where* they will live and *how* the public will find and use them, is a stronger proposal. ## **Ready to Apply?** Applications are submitted through[Grants.gov](https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/361480). The[Notice of Funding Opportunity](https://www.neh.gov/sites/default/files/Collections%20Stewardship%202026%20NOFO.pdf) has full details on eligible activities and restrictions. Questions can be directed to the NEH Division of Collections & Infrastructure at collections@neh.gov or 202-606-8570. If you'd like to explore how a George Blood LP + Aviary collaboration could strengthen your grant proposal,[email the Aviary team](mailto:aviary@aviaryplatform.com). We're happy to talk through how the partnership works and how to position it in your application. ## Share this post [mailto:https%3A%2F%2Finsights.aviaryplatform.com%2Faviary-insights%2Fneh-stewardship-grants](mailto:https%3A%2F%2Finsights.aviaryplatform.com%2Faviary-insights%2Fneh-stewardship-grants) ## Keep reading ### [![Illustration of the Aviary transcript editor and a transcriptionist sitting at a computer desk with a foot peadal](https://insights.aviaryplatform.com/hs-fs/hubfs/TranscriptionPedals.png?width=2240&height=1260&name=TranscriptionPedals.png) Aviary AV captions Configuring a foot pedal for Aviary transcript and index editing](https://insights.aviaryplatform.com/aviary-insights/foot-pedal) ### [![](https://insights.aviaryplatform.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Gemini_Generated_Image_q9a8dqq9a8dqq9a8.png?width=2337&height=1144&name=Gemini_Generated_Image_q9a8dqq9a8dqq9a8.png) Aviary audiovisual AV Effortless Transcript Alignment with Gentle](https://insights.aviaryplatform.com/aviary-insights/gentle) [See all Aviary Insights](https://insights.aviaryplatform.com/aviary-insights) ```json { "@context" : "https://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "author" : { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "Kevin Glick", "url" : "https://insights.aviaryplatform.com/aviary-insights/author/kevin-glick" }, "dateModified" : "2026-04-17T16:14:04.926Z", "datePublished" : "2026-04-17T16:08:09.000Z", "headline" : "A Winning Partnership for NEH Collections Stewardship Grants: George Blood LP & Aviary", "mainEntityOfPage" : { "@id" : "https://insights.aviaryplatform.com/aviary-insights/neh-stewardship-grants", "@type" : "WebPage" }, "publisher" : { "@type" : "Organization", "logo" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "url" : "https://insights.aviaryplatform.com/hubfs/aviary%20by%20avp%20logo%20900%20x%20400.png" }, "name" : "Aviary Platform - Audio Visual Preservations Solutions Inc" } } ```