The Union County Board of County Commissioners is pleased to offer the 2024 Union County History Grant Program.
Donor Name: Union County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs
State: New Jersey
County: Union County (NJ)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/19/2023
Size of the Grant: $5,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The Union County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs (UCOCHA), Department of Parks and Recreation, administers the history grant program funded by the New Jersey Historical Commission (NJHC).
The Union County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs affirms the priorities of the NJHC:
- Help strengthen and further develop existing New Jersey history organizations and programs
- Initiate new programming on New Jersey history
- Improve management and interpretation of historic sites and historical collections
- Expand public understanding and awareness of historical resources
- Increase public and organizational participation in historical programs and activities
- Increase accessibility of historical resources to diverse communities and encourage the exploration of understudied and multicultural aspects of New Jersey history
- Increase the body and quality of information on New Jersey history available to the public
- Preserve materials for the study or preservation of New Jersey history
Types of Projects
- Conservation of Historical Materials
- Educational Initiatives
- Exhibitions
- Public Programs
- Research
- Publications
- Digital Media
Funding Information
The Maximum Special Project request is $5,000. A dollar for dollar cash match is not required for 2024.
Project Period
January 1, 2024 – December 31, 2024
The grants projects are funded
- Presentation and interpretation of public information about state and local history, such as brochures describing the organization’s collection, programs, or services
- Public programs such as lectures, exhibitions, conferences, symposia, and workshops
- Classroom instruction at any educational level (including continuing education/training courses for adults)
- Production of classroom instructional materials
- Original research and writing, bibliographical essays, historiographies
- Research in connection with historic preservation projects
- Research that analyzes the field of New Jersey history, such as the need for long-range planning, resource Management or heritage tourism
- Oral history
- Editorial work (including the updating of important works)
- Publication (including republication)
- Film or videotape treatments, scripts, or production
- Development or enhancement of websites
- Feasibility studies or planning for large-scale projects in New Jersey history
- Surveys of New Jersey historical resources
- Educational components of ceremonies, reenactments, commemorations, or anniversaries of historical events
- Conservation and preservation of historical materials such as manuscripts, books, costumes, furniture, photographs, and other visuals of historic importance that will be available to the public
- Fellowship support
- Microfilming/digitization and the production of finding aids to collections
- Genealogical projects resulting in research tools (indexes, cemetery locators, collective regional resources, publicly accessible databases) of use to the wider historical community
- Digital projects
- Newspaper or document scanning/digitizing
Eligibility Criteria
- Union County based, non-profit history organizations must
- have collections or programming relating to Union County or local history
- be incorporated in the state of New Jersey
- be defined as a non-profit organization under section 501(c) (3) or 501(c) (4) by the Internal Revenue Service, or pending same
- have been in existence at least two years and demonstrate an ability to provide history programs and/or services to the public
- Units of government, including schools and libraries, must
- provide Union County or local history programs, services or activities
- describe in detail the portion of the applicant’s work related to the proposed history program/project
- Union County based non-history/non-profit organizations must
- be incorporated in the State of New Jersey
- have been in existence at least two years
- be defined as a non-profit organization under section 501(c) (3) or 501(c) (4) of the Internal Revenue Service, or pending same.
- include a copy of the organization’s IRS letter of determination in the original application packet only
- describe in detail the programs, services and activities that relate to the proposed history program/project
For more information, visit Union County.
