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Recommendation 5.9: Federally Chartered Foundation
The National Film Preservation Board will encourage these three agencies to ensure that a full range of motion picture subjects, genres and physical film types are eligible for grants. The Board also urges these agencies to articulate clearly the parameters of each program to potential grantees.
Additionally, we recommend returning funding for preservation copying to the former level of purchasing power. The wellestablished AFI-NEA program, the lifeline for archival copying in U.S. film archives over the past two decades, has been particularly hard hit. From 1980 to 1992, the program's annual allocation dropped from $514,215 to $355,600, while the cost of laboratory work more than doubled. Thus archives have been caught in a double bind: fewer grant dollars and higher laboratory costs.
Create a federally chartered foundation to redefine the scope of American film preservation through its grant programs and to recruit new financial partners into the effort. Even with additional support, existing federal copying programs are simply inadequate. They attack the effects of film deterioration, not the causes, and, as currently structured, look after only a small portion of America's diverse film production.
Given the magnitude of the preservation problem and the realities of the current federal budget, we must try a different approach. What is necessary is a broad-based structure to integrate storage, cataloging, restoration, educational access, and public exhibition into a coherent national plan and promote this more balanced program. Redefining film preservation requires a new ftinding strategy.
Among possible models the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) is closest to the type of organization envisioned. Created by Congress in 1984, the NFWF was the first nonprofit foundation eligible to receive federal matching funds to support the conservation mission of a federal agency. It stimulates wider investment in conservation projects by creating public-private partnerships aimed at species habitat protection, environmental education, public policy development, natural resource development, habitat and ecosystem rehabilitation, and leadership training for conservation professionals. Its grants programs combine private and corporate contributions with federal dollars and are flexibly structured to encourage new ideas from the field. The NFWF is a lean, mission-driven organization. It secures all operating expenditures from private sources and spends less than 5% of its budget on administrative support and overhead. Between 1984 and 1993, the NFWF awarded 873 grants, contributing
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