Drone footage captured the catastrophic floods that heavily damaged areas of the Texas Hill Country on Friday, July 4, 2025. (Copyright 2025 by KSAT - All rights reserved.)
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has opened emergency grants for institutions impacted by the July flooding across Central Texas.
Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis until next January from organizations in or serving counties in disaster-declared areas of the state, an NEH release said.
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The funding of up to $30,000 could be used by organizations in FEMA-designated areas of the state to preserve documents, books, photographs, artworks, historical objects, audiovisual media and digital collections damaged by the floods.
Potential avenues for funding to assist organizations include drying, cleaning and packing collections, as well as consulting with preservation professionals.
Mason Hickok is a digital journalist at KSAT. He graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a communication degree and a minor in film studies. He also spent two years working at The Paisano, the independent student newspaper at UTSA. Outside of the newsroom, he enjoys the outdoors, reading and watching movies.