The Eric DeLony Industrial Heritage Preservation Grant Fund
The Society for Industrial Archeology offers Industrial Heritage Preservation Grants (DeLony Grants) from $1000 to $3000 for the study, documentation, recordation, preservation and/or interpretation of significant historic industrial sites, structures, and objects. Awards are made to nonprofit organizations and qualified individuals. Grants require at least a one-to-one match. Contributions of in-kind services, as well as monies from sponsoring and cosponsoring agencies may qualify for matching purposes. Funds may be used for a range of projects including, but not limited to: increasing public awareness of preservation efforts, photography, videography, preparing inventories and developing measured drawings of extant significant industrial sites, structures, maritime facilities and industrial artifacts. Grant recipients must agree to prepare a written summary of their project suitable for publication in either the SIA Newsletter and/or the Society’s scholarly journal.
Grants are open to nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, independent scholars, and qualified individuals. Organizations are preferred over individuals. Substantial participation from state, county, or local history organizations is encouraged, although such groups do not necessarily need to be a sponsoring agency.
- Awards are limited and grants may not be awarded in some years.
- The decision to award grants are made once a year at the SIA Annual Meeting (usually held in late May or early June).
- Applications must be received by March 1 to be considered for that year.
- Please contact one of the members of the Industrial Heritage Preservation Grants Committee if you are planning to apply.
- Funds from any SIA grant may not be used to pay overhead or administrative costs of the grant.
- Please email the complete application to sia@siahq.org (send completed cover sheet plus all required attachments as a PDF) to the SIA Headquarters office by the deadline date — not directly to members of the Grants Committee. Please do not send printed copies of the application package by mail, FAX, or express courier.
The SIA will acknowledge all Grant applications received via email.
For more information about the Eric Delony Industrial Heritage Preservation Grant program, contact Grants Committee Chair at: IHPG@siahq.org
Grant Application Information PDF