Deadline: 28 February 2025
The Indiana Humanities is inviting applications for its Historic Preservation Education Grant to fund public programs that educate Indiana citizens about historic places and properties—and particularly about the need to preserve and protect them.
As its name suggests, the Historic Preservation Education Grant funds programs that educate Indiana citizens about the historic places and properties in their communities—and particularly about the need to preserve and protect them. 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
- Grant amount Up to $3,000.
Ineligible Activities
- Indiana Humanities and Indiana Landmarks will not award Historic Preservation Education Grants for any of the following purposes:
- General operating expenses (i.e., their grants must support the development and implementation of specific public programs)
- Activities that promote a particular political, religious, or ideological point of view
- Advocacy of a particular program of social or political action
- Support of specific public policies or legislation
- Food and beverages (unless it’s a key educational component of the program—for example, purchasing food for a program on Hoosier foodways); using grant funds to purchase alcohol is always prohibited
- Entertainment (unless it’s a key educational component of the program—for example, hiring musicians for a program on Indiana’s jazz heritage)
- Lobbying
- Fundraising
- Endowment contributions
- Regranting of funds
- Purchase of land or facilities, construction, or renovation
- Property or major equipment purchases (in other words, funds should not be used exclusively for equipment purchases; they may consider funding equipment, however, if it’s a portion of the grant request and will support the overall goal of providing historic preservation education programming)
- Archival acquisitions
- Programming that falls outside of the humanities and preservation fields
- Social services
- Prizes, awards, or scholarships
- Foreign travel
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for a Historic Preservation Education Grant, you must apply on behalf of a tax exempt 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. Recipients who 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.
For more information, visit Indiana Humanities.
