Local History News: November 22, 2023

Field Note

History professionals from across the state, including staff from MNHS's Heritage Preservation, Planning & Outreach took part in training to respond to water disasters in museum collections. The training was offered through a partnership with the Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums and the History Center of Olmsted County, the Kandiyohi County Historical Society, and the Beltrami County Historical Society. This photo shows participants in Rochester on September 14, 2023.  

Heritage Preservation Grants

Heritage Partnership Program
Shared Workforce is one of four categories of partnerships the Heritage Partnership Program can fund. Partners may individually have similar needs that do not warrant the hiring of full-time staff or contractors, but aggregating those functions for a temporary supplemental staff person or contractor might allow for a more intentional treatment of similar historic resources for greater public benefit. The funding for Shared Workforce is a one-time source of funding to enable a partnership to dramatically increase its capacity for a specified time period or to test the idea of a shared workforce among partners. The application must thoroughly demonstrate that the partnership has carefully planned how to evaluate success and sustain a shared workforce beyond the grant period. The mandatory pre-application deadline for Heritage Partnership Program Grants is Friday, January 26, 2024. Learn more »

ELIGIBLE PROGRAM EXAMPLES:

• Improving student access to Minnesota history at local history organizations and other history entities.
• Improving the quality of regional documentation across multiple history museums.
• Establishing a management plan for multiple historic properties to forge a heritage tourism destination.
• Creating an internship program that will serve regional history entities.

State Capital Projects Grants-in-Aid
The Minnesota legislature and Governor Walz have directed $1 million to the State Capital Projects Grants-in-Aid program. This grant program, administered by the Minnesota Historical Society, supports historic preservation construction projects for publicly owned buildings in Minnesota. Eligible properties must be either listed in the National Register of Historic Places or determined to be eligible for listing by the Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office. 

Work proposed and completed using the grant funds must meet the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties.

More detailed information can be found here, including a link to the grant manual. The deadline for required pre-applications is Friday, January 26, and the final application deadline is Friday, March 8. Learn more »

DECEMBER Grants Open House
December 7 - Online: The Grants Office will hold a virtual Grants Office Open House on Thursday, December 7 using Google Meet from 2 to 3:30 pm in order to provide additional grants support to our communities. We encourage people to RSVP to Gillian with a short summary of what you want to talk about and she will try to ensure that someone helpful will be available. Learn more »

Grants Office Webinar: Is Food an Allowable Expense?
December 21 @ 2 to 3 pm (CT) - Online: As you fill out a proposed grant’s budget, you think of something that might not be allowed. Something like: Can I feed the attendees at my big meeting? Is that fundable? This question comes up with food, marketing, landscaping and many other things. Things that make you go, Hmm. How do you know what you can and cannot do with a grant? If an expense needs to be reasonable and justified, how do you make that judgment call? We will talk about that. Presented by Grants Specialist John Fulton
Join online: meet.google.com/zwx-krei-com
Join by phone: ‪(US) +1 386-361-3086‬ PIN: ‪420 891 978‬#

Small Grant Deadline
The next small grant deadline (requests of $10,000 or less) for the MHCHG program is Friday, January 12, 2024.

Job Opportunities

Minnesota Historical Society's Job Announcement, Internship, Fellowship, and Volunteer Opportunity pages.

MNHS

• Collections Management System Manager - Minnesota History Center
• Marketing Communications Traffic Coordinator - Minnesota History Center

LOCAL

• Alliance Coordinator - Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums
• Vice President - Ramsey County Historical Society, St. Paul
• Nature Center Program Director - Gunflint Trail Historical Society, Grand Marais
• Curatorial Research Associate - Bell Museum, St. Paul
• Private Archives Contractor - Owen Brown, Minneapolis

REGIONAL

• NAGPRA Grant Assistant - Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL

• Senior Curator of History and Culture - Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites, Indianapolis, IN
• Grants Manager - National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, remote

Additional Job Postings in the Field »

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