[MassHistPres] New Grant Program to Support Maritime Heritage Education Projects in Massachusetts

[Doherty, Jennifer @ SEC]

New Grant Program to Support Maritime Heritage Education Projects in Massachusetts

The Massachusetts Historical Commission (MHC) is among the recipients of 2023 Maritime Heritage Grants<https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/maritime-grants-3-16-23.htm> awarded by the National Park Service (NPS) to State Historic Preservation Offices. These grants are made possible through a partnership between NPS and the U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration (MARAD). The program does not use federal tax dollars and instead is funded by recycling vessels from the MARAD's National Defense Reserve Fleet. MHC received $242,500 to administer the MHC Maritime Heritage Education Subgrant Program.

The MHC Maritime Heritage Education Subgrant Program will be a competitive grant program made available to local governments, nonprofit organizations, and tribal entities to advance maritime heritage through public education and to expand public access to maritime history via multiple educational platforms.

The proposed education projects should have a basic goal of teaching the maritime heritage of Massachusetts and facilitating learning and research in the field. Activities should focus on curation, instruction, and interpretation of the three broad categories of historic maritime resources; maritime heritage collections, traditional maritime skills, and historic maritime properties.

Eligible project examples include -- but are not limited to - hands-on programs with the use of traditional maritime skills and tools, virtual workshops, online tours, public access to maritime history through website development, development of software application with interactive stories and games, interpretive signage, walking tours, podcasts, oral histories, story maps, exhibitions, lecture series, shipwright workshops, a digitized catalog of maritime history and minor improvements to existing educational facilities and exhibit spaces.

The subgrants will have a 1:1 matching requirement. Each federal dollar must be matched by one non-federal dollar. Match may be in the form of cash or in-kind donations of time, goods, or services. Applicants can request from $10,000 to $50,000 for total project costs of $20,000 to $100,000. Applicants must obtain and provide a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) issued by the System for Award Management<https://usfcr.com/sam-registration/> (SAM) to identify entities that do business with the federal government.

Applications will be available in January 2024 and posted to the MHC's website<https://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/>. Award notifications are anticipated to be in April 2024. Projects must be completed by September 30, 2025.

Please view the NPS Maritime Heritage Program website<https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1220/maritimeheritage.htm> to learn more about maritime grants and how the program works to foster awareness and appreciation of the many roles waterways and their adjacent lands have played in America's history.

Please contact MHCMaritimeGrants at sec.state.ma.us<mailto:MHCMaritimeGrants at sec.state.ma.us> with any questions or to discuss a potential project.


Jennifer B. Doherty
Local Government Programs Coordinator
Massachusetts Historical Commission
220 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125-3314
Office: (617) 727-8470
Remote: (617) 807-0685
Jennifer.Doherty at sec.state.ma.us<mailto:Jennifer.Doherty at sec.state.ma.us>

Register for virtual workshops<https://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/mhcotr/otridx.htm>

As of August 1, 2023, emails to Jennifer.Doherty at state.ma.us will no longer be delivered. Please update your contact information.

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