The New Jersey Department of State is accepting applications for its Project Grants Program.
Donor Name: New Jersey Historical Commission (NJHC)
State: New Jersey
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/23/2022
Size of the Grant: $20,000
Details:
Goals
The goal of the grant program is to engage diverse audiences in the active exploration, enjoyment, interpretation, understanding, and preservation of New Jersey history. Grants are awarded to projects that achieve this objective. Successful proposals may do so through one or more of the following:
- Broadening, deepening, and diversifying the audiences for New Jersey history
- Strengthening existing New Jersey history organizations or programs
- Initiating new programming on New Jersey history
- Increasing accessibility of historical resources to diverse communities
- Increasing the body and quality of information on New Jersey history available to the public
- Preserving materials for the study of New Jersey history
- Promoting elements of New Jersey’s history that have often been underrepresented in the past.
Funding Information
- Applicants can request up to $20,000 in support of their project.
Eligibility Criteria
Grants are available for both individuals and organizations.
To apply directly to the NJHC for FY 2023 project funding, history organizations must meet the following criteria:
- Have an annual operating budget of at least $100,000 in non-state history funds. This budget figure should be based on income received for the applicant’s most recently completed fiscal year.
- NOTE: The NJHC realizes that unique organizations exist that offer statewide history programming and services but have annual budgets under $100,000.
- Document that at least twenty-five percent (25%) of its audience (both virtual and actual) comes from beyond a 20-mile radius from its headquarters location.
- NOTE: This will require a brief but detailed summary on your Declaration of Intent (DOI) to Apply. No specific ZIP Code listings will be required. The audience threshold can be met by combining a variety of available figures. This includes, but is not limited to: in-person visitor logs at an organization’s headquarters and/or events, point-of-sale data from gift shop and/or ticket office, Google analytics from an organization’s website, Facebook Insights, etc.
- Organizations with budgets under $100,000 may partner together to meet the budget and audience threshold on eligible New Jersey history projects.
- Be in good standing with the NJHC, i.e., no overdue or unfulfilled contractual obligations from prior fiscal years.
- All applicants must demonstrate adherence to professional standards specific to their discipline. All institutional applicants for FY 2023 project support are encouraged to enroll in a standards program.
- The NJHC will entertain proposals for continued funding for projects previously supported through this grant program. However, applicants must clearly demonstrate the public benefit of work already completed and identify how continued support will significantly extend the positive impact of previously funded work.
- No organization may receive Project Grant funding for the same project for more than three (3) consecutive fiscal years.” (Co-Sponsored Projects excluded)
- Organizations may only apply for Project Grant support from the either NJHC or their designated county re-grant agency (CHPP) in any calendar year.
- NOTE: Organizations with budgets under $100,000 may still apply for Project Grant support from the NJHC and GOS support from their county re-grant agency in the same calendar year
For more information, visit New Jersey Historical Commission.
