The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), a statutory body affiliated with the National Archives and Records Administration, administers a grant program that supports activities relating to historical records. NHPRC encourages efforts to preserve and make available for use historical records including manuscripts, personal and family papers, organizational, corporate, and governmental archives, photographs, motion pictures, architectural records, and electronic records.
The Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board reviews grants submitted to the NHPRC by Ohio institutions. Proposals submitted to the Board must relate to the current goals and objectives of the Board and the NHPRC. The board particularly encourages projects to identify, preserve, increase access to, and promote the use of historical records and documentary sources.
The Board favors proposals that:
- address unmet needs across the state
- demonstrate collaborative efforts or aim at collaborative products
- incorporate matching funds and financial support from government, institutions, civic organizations, or other groups
- demonstrate new or innovative methods and techniques
- are in accord with current mandated and state-supported local government records programs.
Applicants should submit to the state coordinator a written outline of the proposed project at least sixty days in advance of the pertinent deadline. The Board will work with the applicants to ensure that their applications are eligible. Applicants are encouraged to attend a meeting of the Board to discuss their proposed projects and refine their applications.
Once submitted to the NHPRC, the Board reviews proposals in terms of their technical merit and their relationship to the established priorities of the board and the NHPRC. The Board recommends to the NHPRC that proposals be funded fully or partially, returned with resubmission encouraged, or rejected. Evaluations and recommendations of the board are confidential. Only non-identifying copies of the reviews will be shared with applicants.
On April 9, 2010, at the Society of Ohio Archivists Annual Conference, OHRAB Board Members Galen Wilson and Dawne Dewey presented Writing Your Way to Cash: Help from OHRAB with your NHPRC grant proposal.
For more information about the NHPRC grant program, please visit the NHPRC website.
NHPRC Awards to Ohio Institutions
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Year
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Institution |
Amount
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Description |
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$1,745,037 | Total since 1977 to institutions within Ohio | |
| 2015 | Ohio Historical Society | $23,361 | SNAP Grant for OHRAB: to support the state historical records advisory board and its electronic records training, History Day, and statewide regrant programs. |
| 2014 | Ohio Historical Society | $23,361 | SNAP Grant for OHRAB: to support the state historical records advisory board and its training, awards, and statewide regrant programs. |
| 2013 | Ohio Historical Society | $24,177 | SNAP Grant for OHRAB: to support basic funding for project staff; travel for board meetings; participation in Statehood Day, National History Day, and Archives Month activities; and a statewide regrant program. |
| 2012 | Ohio Historical Society | $31,577 | SNAP Grant for OHRAB: to support the Ohio State Historical Records Advisory Board and a statewide regrant program. |
| 2011 | Hebrew Union College/Jewish Institute of Religion | $96,104 | To support a two-year project for its American Jewish Archives to process its backlog of historical records totaling nearly 2,000 cubic feet. The collections document the broad scope of American Jewish society-political, economic, communal, professional, philanthropic, family, and religious-through the papers and records of rabbis, synagogues, social groups, individuals, and organizations. |
| Ohio Historical Society | $21,377 | SNAP Grant for OHRAB: to support the work of the Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board, including a statewide regrant program. | |
| 2010 | University of Cincinnati | $61,287 | To process and make available the papers of Theodore M. Berry, a civil rights pioneer, activist, and first African American mayor of Cincinnati. |
| Ohio Historical Society | $13,623 | SNAP Grant for OHRAB: to support basic activities, provide electronic records workshops, and print a brochure highlighting the importance of public records. | |
| Wright State University | $129,694 | To process and make available the records of the Dayton Daily News, from 1902-1990, including 3,000 cubic feet of photographs, microfilm, maps, and bound volumes of newspapers. | |
| 2009 | Ohio Historical Society | $20,000 | SNAP Grant for OHRAB: to support the state historical records advisory board, in sponsoring a Connecting to CollectionsSummit to initiate a needs assessment of the state’s cultural heritage institutions. |
| Ohio University | $116,514 | A two-year project to complete basic processing of over 7,000 cubic feet of holdings, divided between historical records of the University and materials in its manuscript collection, and providing links to finding aids as part of the OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository. | |
| Ohio University Press | $30,000 | For subvention support for The Papers of Clarence Mitchell, Jr. (2003, 2006, 2009) | |
| 2007 | Kent State University | $86,742 | For subvention support for the Papers of Salmon P. Chase, the Selected Correspondence between Salmon P. Chase and His Two Daughters, and the Papers of Robert A. Taft. (through 2007) |
| Ohio Historical Society | $10,000 | SNAP Grant for OHRAB: in partial support of the Ohio SHRAB’s activities. | |
| 2006 | Hebrew Union College/Jewish Institute of Religion | $61,152 | To support a second phase of microfilming the records of the New York office of the World Jewish Congress. |
| 2005 | Hebrew Union College/Jewish Institute of Religion | $47,073 | A project to microfilm the records of the New York office of the World Jewish Congress, a collection spanning 1918-1982, and measuring 222 linear feet |
| Ohio Historical Society | $10,000 | SNAP Grant for OHRAB: in partial support of the Ohio SHRAB’s activities. | |
| 2003 | Ohio Historical Society | $10,000 | SNAP Grant for OHRAB: in partial support of the Ohio SHRAB’s activities. |
| 2002 | The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives | $45,250 | To host an archival administration fellowship. |
| 2000 | Ohio Historical Society | $13,458 | SNAP Grant for OHRAB: to fund the administrative expenses of the Ohio board for two years. |
| 1999 | The Dayton Art Institute | $30,940 | A project to establish an archival program. |
| 1998 | Ohio Historical Society | $6,686 | For a planning project to enable the Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board to hold quarterly meetings and continue its efforts to implement its current long-range plan. |
| 1998-2001 | Kent State University | $129,648 | Publication Project for Robert A. Taft Papers. |
| 1996 | Ohio Historical Society | $10,000 | To hire a consultant to recommend a plan for creating the Ohio Electronic Records Archives. |
| Toledo Museum of Art | $54,392 | To establish an archives and records management program for the museum. | |
| 1995 | Ohio State University Research Foundation | $12,634 | For the Inter-University Council of Ohio to hold a two-day planning conference concerning electronic records and information management in preparation for extending the manual, Records Retention for Public Colleges and Universities, to include electronic records. |
| 1994 | Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board | $18,524 | For a planning grant to revise and update its priorities by sharing The Ohio 2003 Draft Plan with constituents of historical records programs in the state, making appropriate revisions based on their input, and developing an implementation schedule |
| 1993 | Cincinnati Historical Society | $97,786 | To arrange, describe, and catalog a portion of the society’s Nippert Collection. The collection consists primarily of documents relating to the history of the German Methodist Church in America from its creation in Cincinnati in the 1830s until its final merger with English-speaking branches of the Methodist church in 1933. |
| Toledo Museum of Art | $4,772 | To hire a consultant to assist with the development of an archives and records management program at the museum. | |
| 1991 | Oberlin College | $44,625 | To improve access to Oberlin College Archives by creating or revising existing inventories. |
| 1987 | Antioch University | $35,112 | To develop an archival program for the university. An innovator in education since its founding, Antioch instituted coeducation and interracial education in the mid-19th century, cooperative education in the 1920s, and a system of decentralized learning centers in the 1960s. |
| 1986 | Cleveland State University | $2,285 | For consultation on processing and preserving three existing collections and for developing an expanded collection program. |
| 1985 | Antioch University | $2,473 | For a consultant to make recommendations for the development of an archival and records management program for the university’s records holdings on its Yellow Springs campus and at its five centers throughout the United States. |
| Ohio Historical Society | $46,164 | To survey, inventory, acquire, process, microfilm, and make available for use architectural records relating to Columbus and central Ohio. | |
| Heidelberg College | $3,000 | For consultation to plan for an archives and records management program for the college. Founded in 1850, the school is affiliated with the United Church of Christ. | |
| Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center | $2,350 | For an institutional self-evaluation and consulting assistance. | |
| 1984 | Wright State University | $9,836 | To preserve and make available photographs dated 1898 to 1935, depicting the Miami Conservancy District. |
| 1982 | Ohio Department of Administrative Services | $5,290 | For a systematic study of the archives and records management program in Ohio through the use of external consultants. Areas of specific interest include a centralized microfilm program, vital records program, records arrangement and description, and records center operation. |
| 1981 | Cincinnati Historical Society | $34,995 | To organize and make available for research a collection of more than 40,000 architectural drawings and supporting documents relating to the City of Cincinnati and its architectural firms. |
| Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board | $16, 845 | To analyze the current condition of historical records in the state, identify problems, frame potential solutions, and outline actions that can be taken. | |
| Ohio Historical Society | $3,750 | To complete preparation of a municipal records manual and to conduct a series of records management workshops for municipal officials and employees. | |
| Ohio Historical Society | $65,330 | To microfilm for preservation and research selected historically valuable records from each of Ohio’s counties. | |
| 1980 | Western Reserve Historical Society | $5,695 | To microfilm the records of the Consumers League of Ohio, 1900-1970. This organization of activist women, established to improve the working conditions of women and children, has been involved in many social reform movements of the 20th century. |
| 1979 | Cincinnati Historical Society | $6,486 | To process papers of five major leaders of the Charter Party movement. |
| Cincinnati Museum Association | $11,777 | To process the records of the Association, including records of the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Art Academy. The Museum, founded in 1881, is the oldest general art museum west of the Allegheny Mountains. | |
| 1978 | Ohio Historical Society | $8,250 | To process and microfilm the correspondence riles, 1914-36, of the city manager of Dayton, Ohio, the first city of significant size to adopt the manager-commission form of government. |
| Western Reserve Historical Society | $7,795 | To arrange and describe records of the Cleveland Welfare Federation. | |
| 1977 | Bowling Green University | $19,416 | For a 19-county microfilming consortium to preserve historical records. |
| Wright State University | $15,550 | For preservation and processing of the records of the O.S. Kelly Company, a major manufacturer of steam engines and threshing machines from 1870 to 1908. | |
| 1976-1981 | The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center | $35,250 | For the Rutherford B. Hayes Papers. |
| 1976-1977 | Ohio Historical Society | $120,671 | For the Temperance and Prohibition Papers. |
| 1976 | Ohio University Press | $1,615 | For the Papers of Roger B. Taney. |
| Toledo Lucas County Historical Society | $705 | For the Samuel Milton Jones Papers. |