Deadline: 1-Mar-22
Applications are now open for the Oral History Grants Program to collect and transcribe oral histories, deposit transcripts and tapes or CDs with the Utah State Historical Society Library and other public deposition sites (such as local libraries), and make the content of the collected oral histories available to the general public through a live public program.
Transcripts and recordings are deposited at the Utah State Historical Society Library and other deposition sites (such as local libraries), and the content of the collected oral histories is made available to the general public through a live public program. Oral History Grants are not made to individuals or for-profit entities. Grants are intended to fund one-time projects that are innovative, focused, well-defined, and of benefit and interest to the local community.
While the program's primary purpose is not to provide research material for scholarly publication, exhibits, or similar projects, scholars involved in an oral history project who wish to delay depositing the material collected as part of a UH/UDSH grant in order to publish it must provide—as part of the grant application—a reasonable timetable for collecting and depositing the material. Such information will be considered when the application is reviewed.
Funding Information
Grants provide up to $2,000 for oral history research and transcription costs.
Eligibility Criteria
Oral History Grants are open to organizations within Utah, including, but not limited to:
- historical societies
- museums
- tribes
- government agencies
- colleges and universities
- statewide heritage organizations
- other nonprofit and ad hoc organizations engaged in oral history research
Criteria
- Oral History Grants are not made to individuals or for-profit entities.
- Grants are intended to fund one-time projects that are innovative, focused, well-defined, and of benefit to the local community.
- Products of projects supported by Oral History Grant funds must be made available to the public. An easy way to do this is to deposit a copy of the transcribed oral history interview and any other written products from the interview in a local public library. Applicants are required to designate a primary repository open to the public to receive and house materials generated from awarded grants. The Utah State Historical Society Library elects to accept only those materials for which it has been designated as the primary repository, though it reserves the option to be the secondary repository for materials that complement its scope of collection.
- Successful applicants must host at least one live public program that showcases the stories collected as part of an Oral History Grant and allows for public discussion about those stories.
- Copies of all tapes and transcripts of interviews must also be delivered to UH. The grant file for an oral history project that receives UH/UDSH funds will not be closed, and final payment will not be made, until tapes or CDs and transcripts have received by UH and UH/UDSH staff have reviewed and deposited them in the Utah State Historical Society Library, or until a restricted deposition has been made to UDSH.
- Oral history projects funded by UDSH and UH must enlist the participation of a scholar trained in the methods and techniques of oral history. Personnel in the Public History section of UDSH may fill this role. Training in oral history techniques and standards for both the project interviewer and transcriber must be secured through UDSH or a comparable institution before funds will be released.
- Requests to UH/UDSH to fund international travel or the purchase of equipment are very rarely approved.
For more information, visit Utah Humanities.
For more information, visit https://www.utahhumanities.org/index.php/Center-for-Local-Initiatives/grants.html