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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#373737">The Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board announces the availability of grants between $500 and $5,000 to archival institutions to fund projects to preserve and/or provide access
to Ohio’s historical records. The grants are funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.archives.gov/nhprc" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000CB">NHPRC</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#373737">),
an arm of the National Archives and Records Administration (</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.archives.gov/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000CB">NARA</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#373737">).
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#373737"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#373737">Grant applications are due March 31, 2023.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#373737"> More information on the grants, including
the application packet, is available </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.ohrab.org/grants/regrant/"><span style="color:blue">here</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#373737">.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#373737">Projects eligible for funding in 2023 include:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#373737">Assessment and Strategic Planning: hiring consultants to identify needs and priorities for improving the organization, description, preservation and access to collections.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#373737">Access, Arrangement and Description: identifying, organizing, and improving access to historical records.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#373737">Preservation: purchasing archival file folders, archival boxes, dehumidifiers, humidifiers, hygrothermographs, or HEPA vacuum cleaners.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:66.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#373737">Website Development: Adding collections to online catalog, developing virtual archives, or creating an on-line database. Websites designed to support access to researchers (e.g., online catalogs, finding
aids, and digitized collections, rather than curated web exhibits) will receive preference in funding.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#373737">Projects focused on under-documented communities and topics, as well as underserved communities, are encouraged.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#373737">Please Note: all projects should produce some type of online content, such as a finding aid, report or digital images.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#373737">Applicants are encouraged, but not required, to submit draft grant applications for feedback. Draft applications must be received by
<b>February 24</b> and must include all of the components of the application. Comments and recommendations on the drafts should not be construed as guaranteeing a grant award.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#373737"> </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Questions? Please contact:
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333;background:white">Stephen Badenhop, Records and Archives Coordinator, Union County Records Center (937-645-4177;
<a href="mailto:sbadenhop@unioncountyohio.gov"><span style="color:blue">sbadenhop@unioncountyohio.gov</span></a>).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Connie Conner | Government Records Archivist</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D">
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Ohio History Connection | 800 E. 17<sup>th</sup> Ave. Columbus, Ohio 43211<br>
p. 614.297.2573 | f. 614.297.2546 | <a href="mailto:cconner@ohiohistory.org"><span style="color:blue">cconner@ohiohistory.org</span></a> | she/her<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ohiohistoricalsociety"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="24" height="24" style="width:.25in;height:.25in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.gif@01D937DD.32683310" alt="ohio history facebook"></span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><a href="https://twitter.com/ohiohistory"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="24" height="24" style="width:.25in;height:.25in" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image002.gif@01D937DD.32683310" alt="ohio history twitter"></span></b></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span style="color:#1F497D;background:white">I recognize that I am a guest in the original homeland of the living nations of: The Miami Tribe, the Shawnee Tribe, the Eastern Shawnee Tribe, the Absentee Shawnee
Tribe, the Delaware Nation, the Delaware Tribe, the Wyandotte Nation, the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe, the Seneca Nation, the Ottawa Tribe, Peoria Tribe, Pokagon Band Potawatomi, Forest County Potawatomi, Tonawanda Seneca, and others. I extend my respect and gratitude
to the many Indigenous people who call these lands home.</span></i><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#1F4E79"> </span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#094268">The Ohio History Connection’s <a href="https://www.ohiohistory.org/about-us"><span style="color:#107094">mission</span></a> is to spark discovery of Ohio’s stories. Embrace the present,
share the past and transform the future. Support the Ohio History Connection: <a href="http://www.ohiohistory.org/give"><span style="color:#107094">www.ohiohistory.org/give</span></a>.</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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