The Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation announced four $5,000 research and preservation grants on October 22, directing $20,000 toward projects in Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Chile and a Cuban-composer recovery project. The work ranges from an open archive for Bahia’s samba de viola machete to a catalog and digital editions of Dominican composer Ana Margarita Silfa Finke’s music. Another grant documents Chile’s early reggaeton generation, while researchers will search for lost works by Havana composer Antonio Raffelin. These are not awards-season headlines; they are infrastructure for music that can disappear when manuscripts, field recordings and oral histories remain scattered or inaccessible. The central news is the commitment to public memory, not a retrospective playlist.