DCCHP Grant Program A 1968 Initiative

DCCHP Grant Program A 1968 Initiative

DC Community Heritage Project (DCCHP) A partnership between HumanitiesDC and the DC Historic Preservation Office, the DC Community Heritage Project is designed to provide funding and support to community leaders interested in preserving the history, architecture, and collective memory of their neighborhoods. The DCCHP is local history at a grassroots level, placing control of the narrative in the hands of those who create it. Past grantees have produced documentary films, oral history projects, digital archives, walking tours, and many other types of educational materials.

DC Community Heritage Project (DCCHP) Successful applicants will propose projects that explore the hidden history of 1968 in Washington, DC. Projects may explore, more broadly, the social, political, and cultural climate during that year, and how it affected and inspired resiliency among various communities across the city. Awards up to $2,500 No LOI or Preliminary Proposal Required Projects must emphasize community history and/or preservation Applications available to the public: November 1, 2017 Grant period (February 20 August 13, 2018) All grants must result in a tangible work which can be archived and made freely available to researchers Applications are due on January 12, 2018; Decisions will be made by February 20, 2018; Awards Ceremony: February 20, 2018. Grant agreements will be signed and Checks will be issued by March 15, 2018; Final Reports and products are due August 13, 2018; DCCHP Showcase- September 2018.

What do we fund? Grant Funds May be Spent On: Project supplies Project venue rental Honoraria Project Transportation A/V Rental for project Project Publicity and Promotion Grant Funds May not be Spent On: х Organizational expenses unrelated to programming (rent, office supplies, etc.) х Refreshments, Hospitality, Parties х Production of visual, performing, or fine arts projects

Qualifying Questions Are you currently completing a HumanitiesDC grant project? (IF SO YOU CANNOT APPLY FOR THIS GRANT). Does the project focus on history and/or preservation of Washington s landmarks, neighborhoods, and/or culture? How will the project benefit DC residents? Have all HumanitiesDC and/or Historic Preservation Office grants received by my sponsoring organization been closed out successfully? Can the project be completed within the term of the grant cycle? Is the sponsoring organization a DC non-profit? Is it feasible to find a 1:1 cash or in-kind match for the project?

Application Roles Organizational Sponsor The non-profit responsible for disbursing the grant funds. In most cases, the same organization will carry out the grant s activities. Applicants are required to submit contact information for the organization s chief executive. Project Director The person responsible for administering the grant and/or the person responsible for carrying out its proposed program. (In some cases you may have multiple people in this role) Humanities Scholar An expert in the proposed project s field. This person should provide guidance and advice throughout the project, ensuring that its methods, findings, and interpretations are based on vetted and traceable information. Project Bookkeeper The person responsible for maintaining receipts, in-kind documentation, and other financial records pertaining to the project. The bookkeeper may not serve as the organization executive, the project director or the project scholar.

Project Narrative The project narrative is the most substantive part of the DCCHP proposal. It is separated into four components: 1. Project Description - A precise indication of your project s goals and how they will be reached. The description should include a specific list of activities, an implementation timeline, a list of key individuals and their roles in the project. 2. Project Collaboration Outlines the role of the sponsoring organization (if it is not directly responsible for carrying out the project), the role of the humanities scholar, and the roles of any additional organizational partners. 3. Final Product A description of the product that will result from the project. The final product must be able to serve as a long term record of the project s achievements. 4. Outcomes and Evaluation A description of how the project will be promoted to the public, and how its outcomes will be evaluated.

Application Budget Sheet Project Budget Sheet Category HCWDC Funds Sponsoring Cost Share Total Project Budget Requested* Cash+ In-Kind Budget Honoraria $ - Salary/wages $ - Travel $ - Supplies $ - Publicity, promotion, printing $ - Postage, telephone $ - Facilities rental $ - Evaluation $ - Total $ - $ - $ - $ - *Total requested must not exceed 50 percent of the total project budget. + Source of cash contributions: Organization s own funds $ Other sources $ List other sources:

Budget Narrative The Budget Narrative should provide specific detail to each category (row) on the budget sheet. Example: Under Salary/Wages an applicant has listed $600 in DCCHP Funds, $500 in cash and $500 in in-kind contributions for a total of $1,600 in that category. The narrative for that category might read: Salaries and wages will be paid in the amount of $300 each to two professional oral historians (12 hours each at $25/hour). The project scholar is contributing half of her $1,000 consulting fee as an in-kind donation*, and the remainder will be paid for by the sponsoring organization. All grants awarded through HumanitiesDC require a 1:1 match. The match can be comprised of any combination of cash and in-kind. *You may use average salaries as quoted by the Department of Labor and Statistics to help determine appropriate in-kind rates. (http://www.bls.gov/ro3/ncswb.htm.)

Example Project Types Museum exhibit or traveling installation Documentary film Educational website Curricula or Lesson Plans Oral History Project NRHP Nominations Original Research / Published Works Church History Archive Planning or Creation Site Interpretation/ Neighborhood Walking Tour Community History Day Historic Mapping Projects

Final Report The final report document is require to be completely filled out. It is the complete packet of all the required forms (budget sheet, project director s report, Humanities Scholar Report, evaluations and In-kind donation forms).

Final Report

Final Product Each funded project is required to produce a final product that will be added to HumanitiesDC s DC Digital Museum (DCDM), an online repository of materials related to the city s history, life and culture. The DCDM is open and freely accessible to the public, but it is also a digital archive aimed at preserving interpreted and original content for the benefit of researchers, students, teachers, and future generations of Washingtonians. It is the responsibility of each grantee to ensure that all submitted final products are free of copyright restrictions (though creators retain copyrights to their completed works). HumanitiesDC can make template deed of gift forms for oral history recordings available to awarded applicants. For more information of the DCDM, please contact HumanitiesDC s Curator of Digital Collections, Jasper Collier at jcollier@wdchumanities.org.

Final Product Each funded project is required to: REQUIRED LANGUAGE 1. Include the boilerplate text for the National Park Service: (The following language is from the DCCHP grant conditions doc. It will be a part of the packet of information you read in the Grant Conditions and sign the form agreeing to accept the fund. Include the following statement: Funds for the DC Community Heritage Project are provided by a partnership of HumanitiesDC and the DC Historic Preservation Office, which supports people who want to tell stories of their neighborhoods and communities by providing information, training and financial resources. This DC Community Heritage Project has been also funded in part by the US Department of the Interior, the National Park Service Historic Preservation Fund grant funds, administered by the DC Historic Preservation Office and by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. This program was supported through a Historic Preservation Fund grant administered by the National Park Service, Department of Interior. Funds were used for the identification, protection, and/or rehabilitation of historic properties and cultural resources in the District of Columbia. Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the U.S. Department of the Interior prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, or disability in its federally assisted programs. If you believe that you have been discriminated against in any program, activity, or facility as described above, or if you desire further information, please write to: Office of Equal Opportunity, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20240.

Final Product REQUIRED LOGOS Each funded project is required to display the funding organization s logos all printed material and websites when promoting the funded grant project. 2. Logos : HumanitiesDC Historic Preservation Office (HPO) DC Community Heritage Project

To begin an application, go to: http://grantapplication.wdchumanities.org

Create a new account if necessary

Creating An Account How to create a new account: - Obtain the EIN and DUNS numbers from your sponsoring organization. - The system will first ask you to input some basic information about the sponsoring organization. - Next the system will ask for Project Director information. This information should be filled out by the applicant (even if a different person will actually be conducting the program). - Then the system will ask if the applicant is the Executive Officer of the sponsoring organization. If this role is filled by someone else, you will need to input their information as well on the next screen. - Finally, the system will ask you to create a password. Once you ve completed these steps you will be able to access the DC Community Heritage Project Grant application.

Recap Have a clear conception of the story you want to tell, and why it is important. Clearly state the goal of your project and how you will achieve it. Itemize your budget and explain in each item in your budget narrative. Include letters from partner organizations acknowledging their participation. Think about audiences for your final product. Who will it benefit now, and who will it benefit as part of a permanent archive?

If you are awarded a grant Funds will be disbursed to the Sponsoring Organization not directly to the Project Director or Project Bookkeeper. You must agree to and sign all grant conditions before checks will be distributed. You may be required to take part in media and promotion around the DCCHP as a whole. All grantees must display their work for a public audience at the Showcase in September. Be prepared to comply with legally binding terms of the grant agreement such as: Feature the DCCHP logo, the HumanitiesDC logo, the DCHPO logo, and a paragraph of disclaimer language from the National Park Service on all materials produced as part of the grant. Failure to complete the project will require that the full grant award be repaid to Humanities DC, even if a portion of the funds have already been spent.

As part of your promotional material you must always include these logos in your website, and. HumanitiesDC reserves unlimited non-exclusive licenses to use and reproduce for non-commercial purposes, without payment, any matter, including copyrighted matter deriving from activities funded by this grant including the use of these materials for television broadcast in HDC television programming. HDC reserves the right to require grantees to provide from the budget of this grant two prints of the media product for HDC to use in the agent s programming. NO part of the media product may be used in the advertising of commercial products or for advocacy of a partisan, political, or religious response. All media products must contain an acknowledgement of HDC support and include a disclaimer that the statements, conclusions, and views presented in the film, tape or other media product do not necessarily represented the views of HDC.

Half of net revenues realized from the sale or use of materials developed under this grant will be paid to HDC until HDC has been repaid an amount equal to the federal share of the program. In cases where other humanities councils have awarded additional grant funds for the media product, HDC will take a prorated share of the net proceeds. The grantee is not and shall not be hold itself out as an agent or representative of the HDC and shall take no steps to obligate HDC to any other party. The grantee may not assign any of its rights of obligations hereunder.

Free- Promotion of Grantee Events via CultureCapital.com

Free- Promotion of Grantee Events via CultureCapital.com ABOUT CULTURECAPITAL.COM Launched in 2008, CultureCapital.com promotes, engages and informs the public of performing arts, visual arts, education, lecture and literary events occurring throughout Metro DC. Last year events on the site received over 2.3 million page views. Today nearly 250 arts presenters of all sizes and disciplines submit their events, programs and exhibitions to the site throughout the year. In addition, over 50,000 opt-in subscribers receive one or more if the CultureCapital.com e-newsletters.

GRANTEES WILL RECEIVE Eligible grantees will receive a Basic Marketing Plan on CultureCapital.com for 12 months from the start of the grant term. The fee of $300 annual for the Plan will be waived and includes: An id/password to submit ticketed or free events to the site to include name, date/s, venue, description, link to box office and link to grantees web site. Map and directions to venue included. Choose up to three related categories for each event. Mention event/s with link to full description on the site, under corresponding categories in e-newsletters. An organization profile will be included for any project grant related to an organization.

ELIGIBILITY & RULES Offer is available to HDC Grantees who are not CultureCapital.com participants. Grantee will establish a back link from their site to CultureCapital.com using a link found here: http://culturecapital.org/about/link.php Event/s must be submitted six weeks prior to the event. Event/s submitted to the site will include credit line: Participation in CultureCapital.com is provided by HumanitiesDC. CultureCapital.com will provide HDC Grantee a detail of page views for each event/s submitted. Grantee will provide a statement (50 words or less) detailing the value of marketing services provided.

IMPLEMENTATION HDC will provide E. Rappoport a contact info grantees are eligible for the HDC Umbrella. NOTE: Offer is available to HDC Grantees who are not CultureCapital.com participants. Info to contain: organization, contact, email, phone and grant outcome corresponding to a CultureCapital.com category. CultureCapital.com staff will set contact grantee via email to establish account and directions for submitting events and administration of account. CultureCapital.com staff will forward data, including page views and value statements to Grant Director annually.

Questions/Contact HumanitiesDC Director of Grants Louis Hicks 202.387.8391 lhicks@wdchumanities.org DC Historic Preservation Office Patsy Fletcher 202.741.0816 Patsy.fletcher@dc.gov