The High Desert Museum

The High Desert Museum Will Create a Community of Practice to Support Museum Professionals and Their Community Partners in the Intermountain West. Participants Will Include Rural Museum Practitioners and Their Community Partners in the Intermountain West Who Create and Deliver Public Programs. Each Community Will Send Two People From the Museum and One From a Partner Organization, and Most of the 60 Participants Will Come From Small to Medium-sized Institutions. Participants Will Choose to Learn About One of Two Field-tested Programming Models Focused on Families, Youth, or Adults. High Desert Museum Staff and Collaborators Will Help the Participants Gain Knowledge and Skills Related to the Chosen Model, Implement an Original Community Program, Deepen Collaborative Relationships, and Contribute to a Place-based Programming Toolkit for the Field.

Committed

$482,943

Paid to

UEI X9QCCZD17415

59800 South Highway 97, Bend, OR, 97702

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Place

BEND, OR, UNITED STATES

OR-02

Performance

Oct 1, 2025 → Sep 30, 2028

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Federal grant · project grant (b)

Institute of Museum and Library Services

21st Century Museum Professional Program to

The High Desert Museum

Committed

$482,943

Paid to

The High Desert Museum

UEI X9QCCZD17415

59800 South Highway 97, Bend, OR, 97702

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Place

BEND, OR, UNITED STATES

OR-02

Performance

Oct 1, 2025 → Sep 30, 2028

How to read these numbers

One award, start to finish: Everything here is this single award's whole record — signed, amended, paid — not a fiscal-year slice. The by-year charts elsewhere split an award across the years it was committed; this page keeps it whole.
Committed vs. ceiling: Committed is what the government has legally promised on this award so far. Contracts can also carry a ceiling — the maximum if every option is exercised. Unspent ceiling is headroom, not money owed.
Paid out: The cash actually disbursed against this award. The gap from committed is the disbursement pipeline: promised, not yet cashed.
The ledger: Each transaction is a signing event — an action that created or changed the award, dated the day it was signed — not a payment. Negative amounts are real: money de-committed at closeout or renegotiation.
The money bar: One bar, the award’s whole arithmetic: paid out, then committed, not yet paid, then .

Source

This award on USAspending.gov ↗