The New Jersey Historical Commission (NJHC) is seeking applications for its 2025 Project Grant.
Donor Name: New Jersey Historical Commission (NJHC)
State: New Jersey
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/08/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
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.
Project Types
- Partnership Projects
- Conservation of Historical Materials
- Digitization Projects
- Educational Initiatives
- Exhibitions
- Public Programs
- Research
- Publications
- Digital Media
- Film, Videotape, Radio
- Smith Fellowships.
Funding Information
Applicants can request up to $20,000 in support of their project.
Funding for expenses of specific projects relating to New Jersey history. Eligible categories include conservation of historical materials (manuscripts, books, costumes, historical visuals); editorial and publication projects; educational initiatives; partnership projects; exhibitions; media (films, radio, videotape, digital media); public programs; capacity building, and research (including archaeological projects, fellowships, oral history, and National and New Jersey registers of historic places nominations).
Eligibility Criteria
Grants are available for both individuals and organizations.
For more information, visit NJHC.
