September, 1996
Archivo Siglo XX, Archivo Nacional, Chile. (A project to preserve twentieth-century photographic collections by arranging the photographs, placing them in acid-free enclosures within new storage cabinets, and preparing new preservation negatives as needed.) $10,000.

December, 1996
Archivo Arzobispal de Lima, Peru. (A project to improve and expand storage capacity for the Archive’s holdings, which date from the beginning of the colonial period, by replacing wooden shelves with compact metal shelving.) $11,379.

Archivo Departamental del Cusco, Peru. (A project to inventory, catalog, and make available the Archive’s strong and unique holdings of provincial newspapers from the early nineteenth century.) $13,580.

Archivo Fotográfico "Pedro Guerra," Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mexico. (A project to provide acid-free containers for some 500,000 photographic negatives from southern Mexico.) $8,391.25.

Archivo General de la Nación, Peru. (A project to microfilm some 600 deteriorating Notarial Protocols from the seventeenth century.) $20,000.

Archivo Municipal de Granada, Nicaragua. (A project to organize and preserve the Archive’s nineteenth-century documents, generated during a period when Granada had administrative authority over a large part of Nicaragua.) $9,106.

Archivo Parroquial, Campeche, Mexico. (The first phase of a project to improve storage conditions for documentation dating from the 17th to the 20th century in Campeche's cathedral archive, and then to organize and preserve the materials.) $20,000.