Grant Writer — Broadcast Preservation Program

Remote · Flexible hours · Project Hub #12 · Focus: digital preservation, archives · A great first assignment

Every day at 12:00 UTC, NTARI's fourteen public code repositories sync to five platforms on four continents, with independent archival copies at Software Heritage and the Internet Archive. That preservation network runs today on volunteer labor and free-tier accounts. This program makes it permanent: a written preservation policy, about 200 funded staff hours a year, expanded scope beyond source code (research, governance records, translations, datasets), and eventually a $250,000–300,000 quasi-endowment. The annual operating cost is roughly $12,000 — deliberately the smallest ask in NTARI's project hub.

You'll write digital-preservation proposals: the Filecoin Foundation's open grants (rolling review), the LYRASIS Catalyst Fund alongside an academic library partner, and cultivation materials toward the Mellon Foundation. Everything you claim is verifiable — the mirrors, audits, and archive identifiers are public.

A tight, winnable, well-documented brief: the ideal first assignment

for a new grant-desk writer, and a natural home for anyone from the

library and archives world. Remote via NTARI's Slack grant desk, with

peer review before submission.