Modern Endangered Archives Program UCLA Home Modern Endangered Archives ProgramMEAP UCLA Home Modern Endangered Archives ProgramMEAP Modern Endangered Archives ProgramMEAP Modern Endangered Archives Program Our grants enable digitization and access to at-risk cultural heritage collections from around the world. Funding now available for digitization and documentation. Featured Projects Digital Archive of the Indigenous Languages of the Amazon / Archivo Digital de las Lenguas Indígenas de la Amazonia (ARDILIA) View projectView project Digitizing the “Council of Ethnic Communities ‘We are all Equal’" Legacy (CERJ) Digitizing the “Council of Ethnic Communities 'We are all Equal'" Legacy Hamilton Studio, Bombay: the first twenty years after partition Project to digitize photographs from Hamilton Studio in Mumbai taken between 1947 to 1967, the two decades following India’s Partition. Explore Projects Program Resources aboutHow to Apply MEAP invites applications for its eight round of funding. Awards are available for Planing, Project, and Regional Grants. Preliminary Applications due November 17, 2025. defaultMEAP Digital Projects Guide (2025) This guide details steps for planning, executing, and managing a digitization project for all MEAP grantees. defaultDetailed Application Template 2025-26 (Cohort 8) Template for Application Planning Purposes. Detailed Applications are due February 20, 2026 via the MEAP online application portal. *Note that the Detailed Application has been edited for 2025-26. See all resources News MEAP Metadata Summer Series The Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) Metadata Summer Series starts in July. Mark your calendars and register online(opens in a new tab) to attend one or all of the sessions! Guatemala’s Ongoing Memory Battles Angélica Macario and the MEAP funded team preserve the archive of the Council for Ethnic Community Runujel Junam (CERJ) to keep the memory of the genocide in Guatemala alive. MEAP in the Classroom: Archiving Migration + Digitization MEAP Director, Rachel Deblinger, provided a guest lecture in Prof. Anne Gilliland's Archiving Migration and Population Movement Spring 2026 course in UCLA's Information Studies program See all news The UCLA Library Modern Endangered Archives Program is supported by Arcadia. UCLA Library Home © 2026 Regents of the University of California