Historic Preservation Education Grants fund public programs that educate Indiana citizens about historic places and properties—and particularly about the need to preserve and protect them.
Donor Name: Indiana Humanities
State: Indiana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/30/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Programs may come in a variety of formats— workshops, presentations, booklets, brochures, reading/discussion programs, exhibitions, film documentaries and more—and they’re increasingly interested in supporting digital projects, such as online exhibits, webinars and podcasts, that expand the program’s reach and educate even more people about the value of historic preservation.
Funding Information
- Up to $3,000
- Within one year of notification.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for a Historic Preservation Education Grant, you must apply on behalf of a taxexempt organization that’s registered with the Internal Revenue Service; K-12 schools, colleges and universities, public libraries, churches and government entities are also eligible. They will not award Historic Preservation Education Grants to individuals, nonregistered entities or for-profit entities. Fiscal sponsorship is not permitted. All organizations receiving a grant must provide Indiana Humanities with a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) through the federal government’s System for Award management website, SAM.gov. Recipients that are unable to provide a UEI will not be eligible for funding. Also, note that they will not award an organization more than one Historic Preservation Education Grant per calendar year.
Your project must:
- Be related to historic places/properties in Indiana and have an educational purpose. Note that the Historic Preservation Education grant is not for actual preservation projects (i.e., “bricks and mortar” work).
- Include a preservation professional/expert in implementation and planning. Program personnel must have the necessary qualifications and skills to carry out the project.
- Be intended for a public audience. Although you may design and market your program for a target audience, you must ensure that it is open to the public at large. The review committees assess the public nature of all proposed programs and evaluate how factors such as timing and location will impact audience attraction. Note that they do consider programs delivered in schools and correctional facilities to be public, and in these cases you may offer them to select audiences (i.e., you don’t have to open them to the broader public). Please note: You may charge admission to an event funded with a Historic Preservation Education Grant, but the admission should be nominal. They will not fund a project if they feel the cost of admission will prevent it from being a truly public event. For this reason, they typically do not support conferences or workshops that charge significant registration fees, unless the grant goes toward an activity (e.g., a keynote address) that is open to the public at a free or reduced rate.
- Be presented at a site that is accessible according to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If the site is not ADA accessible, you must demonstrate how you will make reasonable accommodations.
- Include a plan for execution. You must demonstrate that you have the capacity to execute the project you propose. No matter how strong an idea is, they won’t fund it if they don’t have confidence that you can successfully implement it. In your application, be sure to provide sufficient detail as you describe your project ideas and goals.
- Not exceed $3,000 in requested funding. You may apply for a grant of up to $3,000 (though of course you may request less). When they award a grant, they look closely at budgets to evaluate where applicants are proposing to spend grant funds. In some cases, they may offer only partial funding.
- Demonstrate at least a one-to-one match in cash or in-kind contributions from your organization or other sources (e.g., if you request $2,500, you must show at least $2,500 of matching support). Matching funds must come from nonfederal sources and ideally will demonstrate a level of community support for the project. Indiana Humanities reports to the National Endowment for the Humanities data on how much private investment grants leverage, so they encourage you to be thoughtful about calculating your match and to provide an accurate valuation of what you and your 4 donors/collaborators will bring to the table.
- Be completed within one year of the award date. If awarded a grant, you must complete project activities within one year of receiving notification.
For more information, visit Indiana Humanities.
