[SOA] Ohio History Fund grant deadline is Sept 5

[Carleton, Janet]

The History Fund grant program of the Ohio Historical Society (www.ohiohistory.org/historyfund) expects another bumper crop of applications its second year.  The deadline to apply is September 5 and already there are 77 applications in draft form and 8 confirmed submissions.  The History Fund expects many of these drafts to turn to submissions as  September 5 application deadline draws near.

Thanks to the generosity of Ohio's taxpayers, the History Fund will have slightly over $100,000 to grant.  The History Fund is supported mostly by donations to the Ohio Historical Society through its "tax check off" on Ohio's state income tax return (line 25b on IT-1040 in 2013).  You and thousands of other Ohio tax payers determine the size of History Fund's pool of grants!

As tax time looms in the winter and spring of 2014, OHS will make a special effort to promote contributions to the History Fund. In a provision in the state budget  passed this summer, the General Assembly required that tax check offs on state income tax forms must generate a minimum of $150,000 in contributions.  Any check off failing to do so for two year running will be dropped from the form.  Losing the tax check off for OHS would likely mean the end the History Fund.  We don't want to see that happen!  (For the upcoming 2013 tax year, there will be five check off on the state return:  2 for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, and one each for the Ohio Historical Society, military injury relief, and breast and cervical cancer research.) 

In its first year of operation, the History Fund made 11 grants.  Two were for digitization projects, including one project to digitize the contents of five 19th century Butler County atlases.  Two other grants were for collections care projects.  For a complete list of grant recipients and projects, as well as details about applying, visit the History Fund's website:  www.ohiohistory.org/historyfund).  

Grant applications from SOA's members would be welcome by September 5, and OHS will rely on the support of SOA's members at tax time during the spring of 2014.  

For questions about the History Fund, contact the Ohio Historical Society's Local History Office at 1-800-858-6878 or localhistory at ohiohistory.org (or visit the website above).   

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