2020 OLHA Digitization Grants Announced
For 2020, the Ohio Local History Alliance awarded Digitization Grants to three different projects, distributing a total of $3428.02. We are proud to offer this program annually and help Ohio’s...
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2019 Digitization Grant Recipients
Each year, the Ohio Local History Alliance funds digitization grants to assist member organizations in digitizing their collections and expanding access to historical materials. For 2019, OLHA has awarded four...
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Ohio History Fund grant recipients announced, Year 7, 2018-2019
The Ohio History Connection announced at Statehood Day on February 27 the recipients of $90,000 in grants from the Ohio History Fund. The History Fund is a competitive matching grant...
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Digitization Grant 2018 Recipients
For the inaugural year of our Digitization Grant program, we have chosen to fund five different projects and distribute a total of $7,131. We are proud to offer this program...
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2017 History Fund Grant Applications Available!
The Ohio History Fund grant application is now available! These grants are offered through the Ohio History Connection and support all kinds of history projects including museum collection storage, educational...
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Win a Week in Williamsburg, VA
The Alliance is currently selling raffle tickets to fund an Ohio Local History Alliance organizational membership scholarship. Prize for the raffle is a one-week stay at Patrick Henry Square in Williamsburg,...
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Historic House Museums: “A quirky, dusty, and endangered American institution”?
By Jim Geyer Did you know that according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation (as reported in a recent article by Ruth Graham in the Boston Globe), there are...
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Annual Meeting Reflection
Written by Becky McKinney, 2014 Trella Romine Scholarship Recipient I was granted the opportunity to attend the Alliance’s 2014 Annual Meeting and Conference as the Trella Romine Scholarship recipient. It was...
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Heat, Humidity and Collections Care
By Rebecca Larson-Troyer The humidity and fluctuating temperatures of late likely have many of us thinking about the preservation and care of our collections. The degree to which changes in...
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Grantwriting: What Experience Taught Us
By Kasey Eichensehr A few years ago, the curatorial staff at the Clark County Historical Society did what a lot of local history organizations are doing in these trying economic...
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Create a Lasting Impression with Souvenirs
Written by Christopher Burton My wife and I travel a lot. Not the Caribbean cruise and backpacking through Europe variety – we love to visit local and regional history sites,...
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Pivotal Year for History Fund – You Can Help!
Written by Andy Verhoff The History Fund grant program, which the Ohio Historical Society established in 2012, is made possible almost entirely because of the generosity of Ohio’s taxpayers. They...
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Ohio Income Tax Refund + Ohio Historical Society = History Fund Grant Program
[Note: You are welcome and encouraged to “cut and paste” this article to reprint in your organization’s newsletter or website, now through April. OHS needs your help to promote contributions...
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History Fund Grants
2016 is a critical year for the History Fund’s tax refund check-off. The grants are funded by a tax refund check-off: when Ohioans file their state tax refunds, they have the...
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Advocacy, a little word that sometimes has a big, scary, but effective meaning
Do you believe that your historical society has stories that you can tell? Do you host a historical home filled with mementos of a bygone era that you can show...
