The Idaho State Historical Society’s Community Enhancement Grant (CEG) program serves the history needs of Idaho.
Donor Name: Idaho State Historical Society
State: Idaho
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/01/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The CEG program is an important way the ISHS supports Idaho’s historical organizations in preserving and interpreting community history. The CEG program provides funds annually for collections management, educational programming, public access, interpretive enhancements, and heritage tourism.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $2,500.00
- Award Floor: $500.00.
Examples of Acceptable Grant Projects
- Exhibits
- Publications/brochures and website development (ongoing website maintenance and/ or hosting costs are excluded)
- Purchase of supplies and equipment (computers, audio/video/camera equipment, software, conservation materials, archival materials, and storage shelving)
- Educational programs (symposia, curriculum development, teacher workshops, speakers, programs, traveling trunks)
- Oral/video history projects
- Design and construction of outdoor interpretive signs, kiosks, and exhibits (must comply, if applicable, with city, county, state and/or federal signage regulations, including environmental regulations)
- Support for assistance, including professional contract assistance, for membership enhancement, fundraising, and developing board policies and procedures
- Events (must be historically accurate if depicting a historical event)
- Non-structural enhancements to buildings to better preserve and/or exhibit materials such as non-permanent lighting, security systems, and fireproof/waterproof filing cabinets
- Projects designed to enhance cultural/heritage tourism.
Eligibility Criteria
- Be an Idaho non-profit organization 501(c)(3) whose mission is focused on history, historic preservation or education; or a tribal, city, or county government. State and federal agencies are not eligible but may partner with an eligible organization.
- ISHS affiliated sites (Franklin, Stricker, Pierce, Bishops’ House) are ineligible for these funds.
- Only one application per institution per grant cycle.
For more information, visit ISHS.
