The Culture Preservation Grants support projects that preserve and create access to historical or cultural resources that document stories of life in Kansas.
Donor Name: Humanities Kansas
State: Kansas
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/16/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Goals
- Preserve stories that document Kansas stories
- Increase public access to shared cultural heritage
- Enhance organizational capacity through the use of a Project Consultant.
Types of Projects HK Supports
Oral histories, digitization efforts, transcription, collections care, language preservation, hands-on training, and other creative preservation projects are eligible. Using the knowledge of a Project Consultant and implementing best practices are the keys to a successful application. This program is a partnership between Humanities Kansas and the Kansas State Historical Society.
Funding Information
Grants are competitive with a maximum award amount of $3,500.
Grant Period
Include a list of major project activities to be completed within 12 months.
Uses of Grant
Grant funds can be used for:
- Salaries for temporary staff specifically hired to carry out the project
- Salaries for part-time staff with significant roles in the project
- Honoraria for the project consultant and other scholars
- In-state travel reimbursement for staff and out-of-town consultants including mileage, meals, and lodging
- Archival material, digitizing services, duplication, program announcements, reports, etc.
- Cost of making copy prints, photographs, or negatives
- Some publicity and promotions (cannot exceed 25% of the request)
- Non-durable supplies, including external drives, and some equipment. (Funds cannot be used exclusively for equipment purchases; however, a small portion of the grant request—less than 25%—can be for equipment if it will enhance the overall goal of cultural preservation.)
- Tools to support online programming, such as a Zoom license for virtual public events
- Equipment rental such as video cameras
- Funds in addition to the grant project can be requested to assist with increasing access to the project, including support for a sign language interpreter, Spanish language interpreter, audio tours for digital and in-person exhibits, rental of handicap accessible ramps, etc. (Accessibility funds are only available to enhance the humanities content as proposed in the project application. HK cannot fund projects that retroactively make existing humanities content accessible.).
Eligible Projects
Eligible projects include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Online projects that make cultural materials accessible to researchers and the public
- Oral history projects that involve interviewing and transcription
- Research projects that include a historian or other skilled scholar
- Cataloging, indexing, or inventorying a culturally relevant collection
- Digitization projects that include photographs, film, audio and/or video
- Transcription of diaries, letters, or audio/video recordings to preserve content and enhance public access
- Language preservation and translation projects
- Hands-on best practices training or planning that focuses on collection care or other preservation techniques
- Other creative cultural preservation projects.
Eligibility Requirements
- In-state nonprofits are eligible
- A determination letter of 501(c)(3) status is not required
- A Unique Entity ID (UEID) from SAM.gov is required and must be set public for HK staff confirmation
- Successful Projects:
- To be competitive for funding, the proposal should clearly define the scope of work, explain the process, and articulate why the material is important and unique. For projects intended to increase accessibility, the audience must be the general public, which primarily refers to an adult, out-of-school audience. For preservation projects, the best proposals focus on a specific story or collection of material.
For more information, visit Humanities Kansas.
