National Park Service is seeking applications for the 2024 National Maritime Heritage Grant Program – Education Grants.
Donor Name: National Park Service
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/04/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The program’s purpose is to provide funding for a wide range of education and preservation projects that promote and educate the public on America’s extensive maritime heritage.
This funding opportunity is open to State Historic Preservation Offices and other organizations as described in the National Maritime Heritage Act. There are 59 State Historic Preservation Offices; one in each of the 50 states, the 5 territories, the District of Columbia, and the 3 Freely Associated States of Micronesia. One nonprofit organization, Ohio History Connection, is eligible to apply serving as the Ohio State Historic Preservation Office.
Education Grant funded activities must advance maritime heritage through public education for a wide and diverse audience on America’s maritime heritage in addition to at least one of the following ways:
- assistance to any maritime museum or historical society for existing and new educational programs, exhibits, educational activities, conservation, and interpretation of artifacts and collections to also include minor improvements to facilities and other similar activities.
- activities designed to encourage the preservation of traditional maritime skills including building and operation of vessels, special skills such as wood carving, sail making and rigging, traditional maritime art forms and sail training.
- other educational activities relating to historic maritime resources including educational waterborne-experience programs, maritime archaeological field schools, educational programs on other aspects of maritime history.
- heritage programs focusing on maritime historic resources, including maritime heritage trails and corridors or construction and use of reproductions of historic maritime resources for educational purposes if a historic maritime resource no longer exists or would be damaged or consumed through direct use.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $ 3,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $250,000
- Award Floor: $50,000
Eligible Projects
Examples of eligible education projects could include, but are not limited to:
- Subgrant program: A State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) could apply for a grant to administer a subgrant program that supports the interpretation of the history and/or study of women in maritime. The application would describe why the SHPO has selected women as the focus of the subgrant program, the broad educational value of the methods and avenues of study/interpretation (historic and archaeological collections, traditions, oral history), the maximum amount of each subgrant, how they intend to publicize the subgrant opportunity, and how they intend to select projects for funding. This is an example of an education subgrant program for an education grant.
- In-house project: A SHPO could apply for a grant to administer an in-house project supporting public education programs engaging with foreshore archaeology and underwater archaeology methodologies in relation to maritime heritage. The application would describe why the SHPO has determined the program is necessary, the broad educational value of the project, a proposal for the elements of archaeology to be included in the programming, the intended audience, outreach and public access to the program, where, when, and how the program will be conducted (virtual, in-person, etc.), materials required, and staff qualifications. This is an example of an education in-house education project for an education grant.
- In-house project: A SHPO could apply for a grant for an in-house project to support a state operated oral history project capturing the stories of diverse historic mariners and/or Indigenous Peoples with a relationship to water and making those histories available for public access. The application would describe why the SHPO has selected this as a project, the broad educational value of the methods and avenues of the study, how they intend to publicize the opportunity, how they intend to select individuals for the project and how they will make the project an accessible public resource. This is an example of an in-house education project for an education grant.
Eligibility Criteria
State governments.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
