SOHA
Mini-grants Available
The Southwest Oral History Association often
awards a total of $500 in mini-grants to encourage and support
oral history in the southwest region. Mini-grants may be used for
equipment, tapes, transcription, editing, translating, publishing, or
other oral-history-related expenses. They may be used as seed money
for new oral history projects or to complete existing projects.
Students, teachers, independent oral historians, libraries, schools,
historical societies, museums, and other nonprofit organizations are
encouraged to apply. Preference will be given to applicants from the
region served by the Southwest Oral History Association, which
includes Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Southern California.
There is not an application form.
To be considered for a mini-grant, please submit the following:
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A one-page
cover letter which includes your name, address, telephone number,
and e-mail address. If you are applying on behalf of an organization
or institution, please include the full name of the organization, as
well as its address and telephone number.
A
description of your oral history project and an explanation of how a
SOHA mini-grant would benefit the project. Please include the
following information: the project’s title; the project’s objective;
background information on the development of the project;
information such as the number of interviews to be conducted, the
expected length and depth of the interviews, and what will happen to
the interviews after they’ve been recorded; and a project timetable.
Please limit this description to no more than three double-spaced
pages.
A one-page
budget for the project. Please indicate the amount being requested
and list other sources of funding. Keep in mind that SOHA will be
awarding a total of $500 and that this amount may be
distributed among several recipients.
One letter
of recommendation from someone familiar with the oral history goals
of the individual or organization making the application.
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A stamped,
self-addressed business-size (#10) envelope.
The application deadline
to be considered for a 2007 mini-grant will
be announced
in the summer
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