State Board Programming Grants
For projects that strengthen the nation's archival network through activities undertaken by state historical records advisory boards.
FY 2025
American Samoa Historic Preservation Office
Pago Pago, AS
$50,000 to support the American Samoa Historical Records Advisory Board for a two-year award period. The grant would support numerous activities to reactivate and revitalize ASHRAB’s operations, including costs for travel, planning, and support staff. (RC-104946)
Colorado Historical Records Advisory Board
Denver, CO
$39,596 to support a regranting program, workshops, a traveling archivist, a local fellowship program, and travel. (RC-104820)
Idaho State Historical Society
Boise, ID
$18,025 to support the Idaho State Historical Records Advisory Board, including a regranting program of at least five subawards of up to $3,000. (RC-104832)
Illinois State Archives
Springfield, IL
$80,000 to support the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board for two years, including two cycles of the Board’s annual regranting competition for smaller repositories, professional development opportunities for local archivists, and the Board’s organizational costs. (RC-104835)
Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth
Boston, MA
$80,000 to support the Massachusetts State Historical Records Advisory Board for a two-year award period. The grant would support a roving archivist, a mentoring program, the Board’s Archival Field Fellowship program, and statewide history conferences. (RC-104939)
Nevada State Library, Archives and Public Records
Carson City, NV
$79,754 to support the Nevada State Historical Records Advisory Board for two years of programming, including the hiring of an archival consultant, Board travel, and administrative costs. (RC-104944)
North Dakota State Historical Society
Bismarck, ND
$19,000 to support the North Dakota State Historical Records Advisory Board scholarships to emerging professionals and travel costs. (RC-104840)
Ohio Historical Society
Columbus, OH
$80,000 to support the Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board for two years of programming, including regranting to smaller institutions, a fellowship program,scholarships, and outreach and publicity activities. (RC-104815)
Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation
Harrisburg, PA
$13,495 to support the Pennsylvania State Historical Records Advisory Board annual developmental program for archivists, a Board-run professional development and training program, and Community History Dialogs program. (RC-104833)
Rhode Island Department of State
Providence, RI
$12,000 to support the Rhode Island Historical Records Advisory Board Service Days program, a one-day consultation service for small repositories, and educational workshops for records custodians. (RC-104830)
South Dakota Department of Education
Pierre, SD
$15,000 to support the South Dakota State Historical Records Advisory Boards program for professional development scholarships, workshop costs, and publicity expenses. (RC-104831)
Tennessee State Library and Archives
Nashville, TN
$80,000 to support the Tennessee Historical Records Advisory Board for two years of programming: two cycles of a regranting program; the Tennessee Archives Institute, a professional development program for archivists and records managers; and administrative costs. (RC-104829)
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Austin, TX
$40,000 to support the Texas Historical Records Advisory Board program for professional development, a fellowship opportunity, outreach and administrative costs, and educational content for the U.S. sesquicentennial. The Board will also coordinate a mentoring program for Texas repository staff who participate in Texas Archival Resources Online, a free platform for hosting finding aids. (RC-104825)
Utah Division of Archives and Records Services
Salt Lake City, UT
$40,000 to support the Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board regranting program, scholarships, and outreach. (RC-104839)
Vermont State Archives and Records Administration
Montpelier, VT
$12,385 to support the Vermont Historical Records Program programming, including two internships hosted by VHRP, a roving archivist, environmental monitoring, a mobile digitization unit, and Archives Month outreach. (RC-104938)
FY2024
Ohio Historical Society
Columbus, OH
$34,040 to support the work of the Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board and its professional educational programs, collaborative projects, and a regrant program for the preservation, organization and digitization of historical records. (RC-103627)
Utah Division of Archives and Records Service
Salt Lake City, UT
$40,000 to support the Utah Historical Records Advisory Board, including a regrants program, History Day awards, Archives Month programming, and training opportunities, including its Archives Fundamentals virtual course, and two new in-depth “Fundamentals 202” courses on access and digitization. (RC-103629)
South Carolina Department of Archives and History
Columbia, SC
$80,000 to support the South Carolina State Historical Records Advisory Board regrant program over the next two years, with special consideration to the state’s traditionally underserved populations, including the Historically Black Colleges and Universities. (RC-103630)
Wyoming Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources
Cheyenne, WY
$79,988 to support the Wyoming State Historical Records Advisory Board’s work to broaden the network of support for the state’s historical records repositories. Funds will enable the board to continue its Roving Archivist Program for one-on-one consultations; make four regrant awards of up to $2,500; and sponsor four workshops on caring for collections at different locations around the state. (RC-103631)
Kansas State Historical Society
Topeka, KS
$79,498 to support two years of programming by the Kansas Historical Records Advisory Board regrant program for digitization and online access via Kansas Memory; online finding aids; website development; and preservation reformatting. The grant will also support professional development scholarships to Kansas archivists to the Midwest Archives Conference; and a traveling local records archivist. (RC-103634)
Idaho State Historical Society
Boise, ID
$17,750 to support a community regrant program by the Idaho Historical Records Advisory Board of at least five regrants ranging from $1,000 to $3,000 to local Idaho projects that increase public access to historical records. (RC-103635)
New Mexico Commission of Public Records
Santa Fe, NM
$80,000 to support a three-year program by the New Mexico Historical Records Advisory Board to award 12 regrants during the grant period to state and local government entities, educational institutions, historical societies, community libraries, and museums. Funds will allow the board to conduct a minimum of four site visits to regrant projects and to offer two archival training workshops. (RC-103636)
Colorado Historical Records Advisory Board
Denver, CO
$39,649 to support a two-year initiative by the Colorado Historical Records Advisory Board to serve archival collections and institutions in rural areas of the state that reflect underserved and under-documented communities. The board will continue its successful regrants program by offering up to 5 awards of $5,000 each; send a traveling archivist to the rural Four Corners area in southwestern Colorado to conduct a survey of collections and archival materials and to conduct two-day “Archives 101” workshops. (RC-103638)
North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
Raleigh, NC
$43,168 to support the North Carolina Historical Records Advisory Board for two-year programming for its Community Archiving Training & Support initiative. Activities will include travel for three to six regional information sessions and at the North Carolina Library Association 2025 annual conference; development of webinars, guidebooks, and tip sheets to support community archiving activities; and interns for the Traveling Archivist Program to visit at least five repositories each year. (RC-103639)
State Historical Society of Iowa
Des Moines, IA
$3,875 to support the work of the Iowa Historical Records Advisory Board to provide information and training in standards and best practices; Promote Preservation Week (April) and Archives Month (October), and continue board member review of grant applications for State of Iowa documentary collections through the Iowa Historical Resource Development Program program. (RC-103640)
Nevada State Library, Archives and Public Records
Carson City, NV
$11,980 to support the work of the Nevada Historical Records Advisory Board to convene at least three board meetings; finalize the board’s plan and objectives based on statewide needs assessment results; provide professional training through free one-day preservation/conservation workshops, in collaboration with UNLV Libraries Special Collections & Archives, and award small travel stipends for workshop participants. (RC-103642)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
$37,846 to support the work of the Wisconsin Historical Records Advisory Board for two years to carry out the annual state-wide Governor’s Archives Awards and provide up to six annual professional development scholarships; sponsor two sessions each year at the Wisconsin Local History and Historic Preservation Conference; complete a “landscape mapping process” to identify archival institutions and scopes of collections state-wide to prepare for the 2024-2029 board strategic plan. (RC-104652)
Vermont State Archives and Records Administration
Montpelier, VT
$31,459 to support the Vermont Historical Records Program, a collaborative initiative of the Vermont Historical Records Advisory Board and the Vermont State Archives and Records Administration. The VHRP will develop “A Day of Learning” with the Vermont Arts & Culture Disaster and Resilience Network for up to 70 people; provide 400 hours of paid student internship(s) to assist historical records repositories; continue site visits by a Roving Archivist; host two workshops and a lending program for environmental monitoring equipment; mobile digitization; and planning for a statewide digital repository. (RC-104653)
Maine State Archives
Portland, ME
$40,000 to support the work of the Maine Historical Records Advisory Board to create and administer a regrant program. Regrants may be awarded for Preservation Assessment and for Collection or Item Assessment. (RC-104654)
University of Georgia Research Foundation
Athens, GA
$80,000 to support the work of the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council for two years of programming to: offer regrants for local repositories, giving preference to underserved communities; fund an annual competitive scholarship to cover the cost of attending the Georgia Archives Institute; provide partial support for four workshops for preservation training hosted by the Georgia Archives; support the GHRAC awards program; and co-sponsor Georgia Archives Month in 2024 and 2025. (RC-104655)
Indiana Archives and Records Administration
Indianapolis, IN
$19,335 to support the work of the Indiana State Historical Records Advisory Board to provide registration fees for up to 20 people to attend the American Association of State and Local History’s Basics of Archives online course; sponsor a Records Management Course; fund two summer Internships for two Indiana archival institutions, with preference given to smaller organizations; and host four conservation workshops. (RC-104658)
Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records
Phoenix, AZ
$77,044 to support two years of programming by the Arizona Historical Records Advisory Board to fund a regrant program of up to $20,000 for 8-14 projects; four free, day-long workshops on the basics of archives or emergency/disaster preparedness; promotion of Archives Month through a poster and at least three public programs; scholarships; co-sponsor the annual statewide Arizona Archives Summit; and reach out to underserved repositories, including tribal archives to encourage them to participate in the Summit. (RC-104660)