Deadline: 14-Jan-22
The Montana History Foundation’s (MHF) Grant Program is now open to support projects that preserves, restore, and interpret montana’s rich and important past.
Categories
The Montana History Foundation offers grants in the following categories:
- Historic Buildings and Structures
- Historic Cemeteries and Sacred Sites
- Collections and Artifacts
- Oral Histories
- Outreach and Project Development
Funding Information
- Grants available up to $10,000
- The funding period is from May to June of the following year. Projects not completed within the funding period may be required to return all or a portion of the grant.
Project Priorities
Projects will receive preference that:
- Address a structure, collection, or community that is endangered or threatened
- Represent cultural or geographic diversity
- Provide a direct, rather than remote, benefit to local community
- Demonstrate financial support from the community
- Show the project will continue after the funding period is complete
- Will accomplish the work according to professional and historically accurate standards
- Demonstrate a public benefit and/or provide public accessibility
What Foundation does not Fund?
- Grants to individuals, including:
- Grants for dissertation research
- Student projects
- General operations such as rents, utilities, or routine maintenance costs
- Indirect costs, overhead, and/or facilities and administrative fees
- Speakers, lectures, re-enactments, or other public presentations
- Travel or entertainment
- Equipment such as digital scanners, cameras, etc.
- Sponsorships, including auctions, dinners, tickets, advertising, or fundraising
- Organizations that, in policy or practice, discriminate against race, ethnic origin, sex, creed, or religion
- Projects with the purpose to satisfy, fund, or retire loans, debts or other operational deficits from previous projects or past operations
- Sectarian or religious organizations seeking funds solely for religious purposes
- Political action or legislative advocacy
NOTE: in 2022 they will not consider any newspaper digitization projects for funding
For more information, visit https://www.mthistory.org/grants/