The Bergen County Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs (DCHA) created this annual history grant program to support and promote Bergen County history programs, projects, and local history-based non-profit organizations.
Donor Name: Bergen County Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs
State: New Jersey
County: Bergen County (NJ)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/18/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The Bergen County Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs (DCHA) created this annual history grant program to support and promote Bergen County history programs, projects, and local history-based non-profit organizations. The DCHA established this competitive program, with funds re-granted from the New Jersey Historical Commission, to strengthen local history organizations, to inspire projects that will preserve and contribute to the local historic record and to increase the public’s awareness and participation in local history programming.
The Bergen County Division of Cultural & Historic Affair’s Mission is to nurture Arts, History and Historic Preservation throughout Bergen County. The DCHA promotes heritage and cultural tourism for all county assets to enrich quality of life and stimulate the economy, provide educational, marketing, and financial support for the County’s many cultural and historic resources, create new opportunities for economic growth and participation through all the citizens’ lives, and preserve and interpret nine historic sites entrusted to the DCHA’s care.
Goals
- Diversity: Organizations and projects that describe, explain or increase the knowledge of Bergen County’s ethnic or racial diversity and history, and develop new, more diverse audiences.
- Heritage Tourism: Organizations and projects that raise awareness of Bergen County history and develop program content and increase visitation to historic museums and sites.
- History Education Programming: Organizations and projects that create educational curricula and programs on local history that support the NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards.
- Innovation: Organizations and projects that newly interpret and present local history to the public, non-traditional partnerships that inspire creative approaches to historic interpretation and programming.
- Institutional Stabilization: The development of tools that improve institutional stability and services. This includes ADA and board development, long-range, strategic, financial, disaster & emergency preparedness planning.
Types of Grant
- GOS: General Operating Support Grant funding assists established non-profit historical organizations with their overall operations and management. Applicants are encouraged to match their funding 1:1.
- SP: Special Project funding supports Bergen County history projects and programs that are open and accessible to the public. These projects increase access to, knowledge of and contribute to the local historical record, assist and encourage local historic preservation, and support history education and heritage tourism.
Funding Information
- GOS: General Operating Support Grant (Funding range $2000- $10,000. 1:1 Match strongly encouraged)
- SP: Special Project Grant (Funding range $500-$2000.)
Grant Period
The grant period is January 1 – December 31, 2025.
Eligible Expenses, Focus Areas & Projects
- For GOS: General Operating Support Grant Applicants
- Salaries and wages
- Contracted services/outside fees and services
- Printing, publicity, marketing
- Postage and telephone
- Fundraising and development
- Staff training
- Lease expenses
- Mortgage interest
- Equipment purchase, installation, and lease (e.g., computers, office furnishings, files)
- Utilities and HVAC (purchase, installation, and operational costs of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning)
- Maintenance of collections and the interiors of structures (i.e. most routine maintenance)
- Basic grounds maintenance
- Travel and transportation
- Insurance
- Licensing and registration fees (e.g., New Jersey charities registration)
- Planning for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Long-term and strategic planning.
- For SP: Special Project Grant Applicants
- Conservation of collections and archives
- Educational initiatives
- Exhibits
- Media projects
- Local oral history projects
- Programs & projects created for special needs audiences
- Publications
- Publication translations
- Research tools
- Finding aids
- Speakers
- Websites
- Archival folders, boxes, and other materials for conservation of historical materials such as manuscripts, books, costumes, and photographs
- Archival or research library user fees
- Equipment purchases with the following restrictions: only institutions and organizations may use grant funds to purchase major items, such as computers or video cameras. All grant recipients, however, may use grant funds to purchase items such as inexpensive recording devices and computer software
- Equipment rental
- Materials for fabricating and installing exhibitions
- Microfilming
- Oral history tape transcription
- Payment of exhibition loan fees and shipping costs
- Photography and photocopying
- Production of promotional or advertising materials
- Travel and maintenance for speakers and honoraria for speakers
- Supplies to be used in the project (such as storage materials, office supplies, display materials, and materials for educational projects)
- Travel and/or maintenance while conducting research
- Publication costs, such as typesetting, printing, copyright permission fees, and binding
- Wages or stipends for project personnel, such as conservators, curators, educational consultants, and researchers.
Eligibility Criteria
- For GOS: General Operating Support Grant Applicants
- Non-profit organizations based in Bergen County whose missions are exclusively dedicated to history
- Have been in existence for at least two years Local businesses and individuals
- Be ADA compliant or demonstrate planning for such compliance
- Submit or demonstrate efforts towards developing a long-range plan.
- For SP: Special Project Grant Applicants
- Non-profit Bergen County organizations that have been in existence for at least two years, including museums and historic societies.
- Local government agencies
- Historic preservation commissions
- Schools
- Religious institutions
- Libraries Local business
- Veterans Organizations
- Fraternal Organization
- Men’s/Women’s Clubs
- Scouts/Youth Organization
- Ethnic Organization
- Civic Organization.
For more information, visit BCDCHA.
