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CHDF provides grants to historical societies, museums and
other cultural institutions for heritage
programming that explores the state's past or broader
topics in the national's cultural heritage that might also
inform and attract visitors to the state.
We
are especially interested in receiving proposals for projects
that:
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integrate individual historic resources into larger heritage
themes, such as heritage trails and historic destinations.
- utilize
the Internet to increase access to historical resources.
- foster
ongoing relationships between museums and schools and/or
libraries.
Technical
Assistance grants
Support
for strategic planning, collections assessment, development
of humanities themes, and/or strategies of interpretation
and presentation (including electronic). The grants
may be used for internal staff salaries and/or the services
of professional curators, historians, interpretation specialists,
and technical consultants.
CHDF Technical Assistance grants may also be used to review
public relations and marketing strategies, to undertake
audience and/or market research and to pursue collaborative
planning which will integrate a historic destination into
the larger marketing and economic thinking of the regions
in which it operates.
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here for an abstract of a heritage project technical assistance
grant.
Start-up
grants
support
the services of subject matter experts,designers,
museum educators and other technical consultants to help
identify and develop a potential project's main themes and
interpretive strategies; or select program formats most
likely to engage visitors, clarify the approach of educational
materials and other programs for visitors, and begin discussions
with marketing professionals on effective marketing plans.
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here for an abstract of a start-up grant.
Planning
grants
may
be used to identify and resolve core project decisions
to produce a well-organized, fully-detailed implementation
plan that includes thoughtful humanities content, well-developed
project scripts, clear work-plans and detailed production
budgets and comprehensive plans for project marketing.
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from planning grants.
Implementation
grants
support
the actual production of heritage programs
after planning is complete.
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from an implementation grant.
Professional
Development grants
support
conferences, seminars, workshops, publications and other
opportunities for museum professionals and Connecticut historians
to engage in critical dialogue about issues of scholarship,
museum practice and the interpretation of Connecticut heritage.
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here for abstracts of professional development grants.
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