The 2012 MLAP grant manual is now available. Applications will be due on November 15, 2011.
Grantees are limited to having two MLAP grants open at one time. New this year, one grant must be for planning and one grant must be for rehabilitation. A grantee may not have two grants of the same type open at the same time. A grant must be closed before the grantee can submit a new application for a grant of the same type. To allow for larger projects, we are raising the cap on the maximum award amount from $40,000 to $60,000. The match requirement remains at 50% of the grant amount.
Also new this year, we are placing more emphasis on 1) receiving complete grant application materials at time of application; and 2) projects that are ready to begin work at application time, and not dependent on future actions, approval or cooperation from other organizations before the project can begin. Please refer to Page 6, Lighthouse Assistance Program Scoring Criteria, to see how your grant application will be evaluated. Note that MLAP rehabilitation grants require a historic preservation easement in perpetuity.
