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. (a) The endowment may award grants and loans on a
competitive basis to public agencies and nonprofit organizations,
including museums, to encourage development of a systematic and
coordinated assemblage of buildings, sites, artifacts, museums,
cultural landscapes, illustrations, written materials, and displays
and interpretive centers to preserve and tell the stories of
California as a unified society and of the many groups of people that
together comprise historic and modern California. In addition to
preserving and interpreting California's missions, gold rush and
pioneer sites, and other examples of early European exploration and
settlement, the endowment shall give priority to funding projects to
preserve, interpret, and enhance understanding and appreciation of
the state's subsequent cultural, social, and economic evolution. For
example, it may fund projects involving buildings, including the
acquisition of any interest in real property, structures, ships,
historic cemeteries, site areas, places, trails, artifacts, artistic
expressions, illustrations, written materials, or collections of
artifacts, historic districts, cultural landscapes, illustrations,
and written materials, including, but not limited to, the following:
(1) Projects that preserve, display, demonstrate, or interpret the
contributions of the many unique identifiable ethnic and other
communities that have added significant elements to California's
culture, including, but not limited to, their architecture,
landscaping, urban forms, recreation, food and drink, styles,
literature, artistic expressions, and pastimes.
(2) Projects that preserve and demonstrate culturally significant
aspects of the changing ways that ordinary or particularly creative
people lived their daily lives during the course of California
history, including, but not limited to, representative or
exceptionally expressive residences, recreational facilities and
equipment, farms and ranches, transportation technologies, and
innovative shopping arrangements.
(3) Projects that preserve, display, demonstrate, or interpret the
industries, technologies, individuals, groups, and commercial
enterprises that built California's enormous economic strength,
including, but not limited to, aircraft construction, banking and
finance, electronics and related technologies, medical technologies,
petroleum production and refining, movie and television production,
and agriculture.
(4) Projects that preserve, display, demonstrate, or interpret
California's contribution to the national defense during the state's
history, including facilities and artifacts from closed military
bases, and including projects about the social, demographic, and
other changes that resulted from these national defense activities.
(5) Projects that preserve and promote understanding and
continuity of California's living cultural heritage and folklife that
is deeply rooted in and reflective of its distinct cultural
communities, including, but not limited to, public programs,
recordings, exhibitions, apprenticeships, publications, ethnographic
documentation, and archival preservation.
(6) Projects that preserve, display, demonstrate, or interpret
California's geologic and oceanographic history, including, but not
limited to, its assemblage from Jurassic and earlier archipelagoes
and ophiolitic remnants through subduction processes, and the
expression of global tectonic forces in its mountains, basins, and
faults.
(b) The endowment shall fund projects relating to the archaeology,
history, or culture of California's Native American population that
are sensitive to the sovereign status of the tribes and that respect
the cultural and spiritual traditions of those tribes.
(c) The endowment shall give priority to funding projects that
preserve, document, interpret, or enhance understanding of threads of
California's story that are absent or underrepresented in existing
historical parks, monuments, museums, and other facilities, and to
achieve careful balance geographically, among communities and
organizations of large and small size, and among diverse ethnic
groups. The endowment may create financial and other incentives to
support projects described in this subdivision, including, but not
limited to, technical assistance, funding set asides, and
preferential match requirements.
(d) The endowment shall ensure that California's historic and
cultural resources are accessible and available to the people of
California, especially traditionally underserved communities, by
encouraging programs including, but not limited to, traveling
exhibitions, illustrative publications, exchanges, Web sites and
digitalization of materials, and programs in conjunction with school
districts to bring school children into contact with these materials,
and may fund projects for these purposes.