Certified Local Governments may use these federal matching grants for local preservation projects
Donor Name: Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/13/2023
Size of the Grant: $120,000
Details:
The State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), within the Minnesota Department of Administration, administers the U. S. Department of the Interior’s Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) Program in cooperation with the National Park Service (NPS). Under this program the Department of the Interior specifies that at least ten (10) percent of Minnesota’s annual HPF Program award be designated as pass-through funding to Certified Local Governments (CLGs) each year. The anticipated total amount available for Fiscal Year 2023 grants is approximately $120,000.
To become a CLG, a local government must have enacted a preservation ordinance establishing a Heritage Preservation Commission program for local designation of historic properties and review of proposed changes to those properties.
Grant Priorities
Priority will be given to projects that:
- Reflect goals and strategies of the statewide preservation plan.
- Promote sound preservation planning through historic context development and completion of historic and archaeological surveys.
- Result in local designations.
- Involve properties associated with the history of under documented groups or communities.
Funding Information
All project budgets must reflect an applicant match. Grant requests will require a minimum of a 30:70, local match: federal grant. A $10,000 total project budget, for example, would require a local match of $3,000 to leverage a $7,000 CLG grant. Applicants are encouraged to provide a match that exceeds the minimum requirement. Matching funds may be cash, in-kind and/or donated services or materials contributed to the project), or a combination of the three. Cash match is encouraged but not required..
Eligible Activities
- Seven areas of eligible program activity are outlined in this section:
- Comprehensive Planning.
- Pre Development.
- Survey.
- Evaluations.
- Local Designation Forms.
- National Register Nomination Forms.
- Public Education.
- Projects that will receive special priority are those that:
- Reflect the goals and strategies in the statewide preservation plan.
- Promote sound preservation planning through historic context development and the completion of historic and archaeological surveys.
- Result in local designations.
- Involve properties associated with the history of heretofore under-documented groups or communities (ethnic or racial minorities, for example, but also other groups defining themselves as communities).
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible to apply for a grant, applicants must be designated as a CLG and cannot have an outstanding, overdue final reports or products on any previous CLG grant and/or owe grant funds back to the grants program that have not been received by SHPO. To be eligible for funding, the project must fall within one of the prescribed program activities.
For more information, visit SHPO.
