Funded Projects

Here, you'll find a list of recent projects that have received grant funding from Ohio Humanities.

Want to know more? Click here to explore our full archive for more information about funded projects dating back to 1995.

2024 Grantees:

IGNITE GRANTS:

$20,000 - Healing through the Humanities | Akron Children's Hospital | Summit County, Akron
$20,000 - The Art of Domesticity Exhibition, Catalog, and Public Programs | Allen County Historical Society | Allen County, Lima
$17,500 - Capturing Life Documentary | Voyageur Media Group | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$17,500 - Las Culturas del Sur de Ohio Podcast | Southern Ohio Folklife | Scioto County, Portsmouth
$17,500 - Cincinnati: Frontier of African American Freedom | National Underground Railroad Freedom Center | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$15,000 - Laying the Foundation Documentary | Corporation for Findlay Market | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$15,000 - History Walks Lecture and Walking Tour Series | Columbus Metropolitan Library Main Branch | Franklin County, Columbus
$15,000 - Love and War in Colonial Times: Opera Out of the Box Podcast Series | Toledo Opera Association | Lucas County, Toledo
$15,000 - Saving Mount Zion's History Through Public Art | Mount Zion Baptist Church Preservation Society | Athens County, Athens
$15,000 - Lens of History: Celebration of People, Spaces, and Emotion | Robert O'Neal Multicultural Arts Center | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$15,000 - 13th Annual Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival | Greater Cleveland Urban Film Foundation | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$15,000 - Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins | Decorative Arts Center of Ohio | Fairfield County, Lancaster
$15,000 - Shattered Glass: The Women Who Elevated American Art Exhibit, Catalog, and Programming | Canton Museum of Art | Stark County, Canton
$15,000 - UAAC’s Kith and Kin | Urban Appalachian Community Coalition | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$15,000 - Cleveland Jewish Book Festival | Mandel Jewish Community Center | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$12,500 - 2nd Annual Beyond the Battlefield and St. Clair’s Defeat: Connecting with Tribal Nations Today | Fort Recovery Historical Society | Mercer County, Fort Recovery
$12,000 - Marion Voices' Marion County Cultural Heritage Assets Mapping Project (CHAMP) | Marion Voices Folklife + Oral History | Marion County, Caledonia
$10,000 - Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival | Cleveland Orchestra | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$9,500 - Life Stories II: The Conversation | We Amplify Voices (WAV) | Franklin County, Columbus

SpARK GRANTS:

$5,000 - Pictures of Over-the-Rhine | Over-the-Rhine Museum | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$5,000 - WeREAD 2024 | WeRISE for Greater Westerville | Franklin County, Westerville
$5,000 - Cannabis Americana | Cannabis Museum | Athens County, Athens
$5,000 - Shrapnel Maps: Voices in Dialogue | John Carroll University | Cuyahoga County, University Heights
$5,000 - A Trip Down Memory Lane: Silver Celebration | Ashland Main Street | Ashland County, Ashland
$5,000 - Krzysztof Wodiczko: The Art of Un-War | University of Toledo | Lucas County, Toledo
$5,000 - A Trip Down Memory Lane: Ashland Chautauqua Silver Celebration | Ashland Main Street | Ashland County, Ashland
$5,000 - Cleveland History Days Talks at Cleveland Public Library | Canalway Partners | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$5,000 - For Service & Support: Creating an Accessible Community | Wood County Museum | Wood County, Bowling Green
$5,000 - Unless the Mountains Say So Documentary | Kenyon College | Knox County, Gambier
$5,000 - Inkubator Conference Humanities Panels | Literary Cleveland | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$5,000 - Zane Miller Symposium | University of Cincinnati Center for the City | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$4,634 - Cincinnati's Lost Founders | Friends of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$4,000 - TEMPEST: Poetry and Music for a Regenerative Earth | Grandview Heights High School | Franklin County, Columbus
$4,000 - Don’t Just Talk About It, Be About It | Professional Artistic Research Projects | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$3,500 - George Bellows: American Life in Print | Cincinnati Art Museum | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$3,000 - Songs of Sancho's London | Les Délices | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$3,000 - Activate Belmont Historical Photograph and Narrative Project | Belmont Eastmont Hearthstone Community Council | Montgomery County, Dayton
$3,000 - The Untold Stories of Flight | Ingenuity Cleveland | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$2,020 - Historic Landscape Speaker Series | Dawes Arboretum | Licking County, Heath
$1,100 - 60th Anniversary Celebration Event | Noble County Historical Society | Noble County, Caldwell

Sponsorships:

$25,000 - Ohio Humanities Film Fellowships at the Wex | Wexner Center for the Arts | Franklin County, Columbus
$25,000 - The Ohio Newsroom | Ideastream Public Media | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$20,000 - Ohio Museums Association Annual Conference and Empowering Museum Voices Fellowship Sponsorships | Ohio Museums Association | Franklin County, Columbus
$16,000 - Books by the Banks | Books by the Banks | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$10,000 - Columbus Book Festival | Columbus Metropolitan Library Main Branch | Franklin County, Columbus
$10,000 - Keyholder 2024 | The Women's Fund of Central Ohio | Franklin County, Columbus
$5,000 - Cincinnati Oral History Association Meeting 2024 | Oral History Association | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$5,000 - 2024 Ohioana Book Festival | Ohioana Library Association | Franklin County, Columbus
$5,000 - FotoFocus Opening Weekend | FotoFocus | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$3,045 - Heritage Ohio Preservation and Revitalization Conference | Heritage Ohio | Franklin County, Columbus
$3,000 - Freedom a la Cart & We Amplify Voices Open Mic Nights | Freedom a la Cart | Franklin County, Columbus
$2,500 - Ohio Local History Alliance Conference Keynote | Ohio Local History Alliance | Franklin County, Columbus
$1,000 - Gravity Film Showcase | Wild Goose Creative | Franklin County, Columbus

2017 - 2023 Grantees:

IGNITE GRANTS:

$20,000 - Over-the-Rhine International Film Festival | LADD | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$20,000 - It's An Honor to be Here | Decorative Arts Center of Ohio | Fairfield County, Lancaster
$20,000 - Eclipsing History: Ohio in the Great North American Eclipse of 2024 | Bowling Green State University | Wood County, Bowling Green
$20,000 - Bing Davis Documentary | ThinkTV Network | Montgomery County, Dayton
$20,000 - The Chronicles Project: How Studying National Tragedies of the Past Fosters Resilience for the Future | Springfield Museum of Art | Clark County, Springfield
$19,970 - Free Beer Tomorrow Documentary | Lesbians Benefitting the Arts Franklin County, Columbus
$19,789 - Mounds, Moon and Stars: The Legacy of Ohio's Magnificent Earthworks | The Great Circle Alliance | Licking County, Newark
$17,500 - The Untold Story of Ida Saxton McKinley’s Soft Power | National First Ladies’ Library | Stark County, Canton
$17,500 - Recording Music and Recording History | King Studios | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$16,600 - Teaching Cleveland Student Challenge | Teaching Cleveland | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$15,301 - Superman's Cleveland: Lineage and Legacy | Ursuline College, Cuyahoga County, Pepper Pike
$15,000 - Cleveland Jewish Book Festival | Mandel Jewish Community Center | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$15,000 - Pressing Matters Afterschool Program | Zygote Press | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$15,000 - The Harmony Sessions | Harmony Project | Franklin County, Columbus
$12,000 - From Where We Stood: AIDS & the Culture Wars | The LGBT Legacy Project | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$11,000 - I, Too, Sing America | Opera Project Columbus | Franklin County, Columbus

SPARK GRANTS:

SPONSORSHIPS:

$25,000 - 2023 Chagrin Documentary Film Festival | Fevered Dreams Productions | Geauga County, Chagrin Falls
$25,000 - The Ohio Newsroom | Ideastream Public Media | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$15,000 - 2023 Ohioana Book Festival | Ohioana Library Association | Franklin County, Columbus
$10,000 - Columbus Book Festival | Columbus Metropolitan Library | Franklin County, Columbus
$3,495 - Ohio Museums Association 2023 Annual Conference | Ohio Museums Association | Licking County, Newark
$2,500 - Ohio Local History Alliance Annual Meeting Keynote | Ohio Local History Alliance | Franklin County, Columbus
$2,000 - Ohio Classical Conference Annual Meeting | Ohio Classical Conference | Ashland County, Ashland

MAJOR GRANT AWARDS: $173,499

QUARTERLY GRANT AWARDS: $114,915

MONTHLY GRANT AWARDS: $15,410

$2,000 - Crafts and Trades of 19th Century Southwest Ohio | Historic Southwest Ohio | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$2,000 - Creating the Ohio Virtual Black Civil Rights Business and Cultural Heritage Trail Exhibits | International Black Business Museum | Cuyahoga County, Beachwood
$2,000 - Hanif Abdurraqib Presents: A Celebration of Black Performance | Central State University | Greene County, Wilberforce
$2,000 - Susan B. Anthony Exhibit | Lake Erie College | Lake County, Painesville
$2,000 - Talking Tombstones: A Sugar Grove Cemetery Living History Walk | Clinton County Historical Society | Clinton County, Wilmington
$2,000 - Why I Stay Documentary Planning | Scioto Literary | Scioto County, Portsmouth
$1,900 - Horseshoe Lake Digital Exhibition | Shaker Historical Society and Museum | Cuyahoga County, Shaker Heights
$1,510 - The History of Fibers | Warren County Historical Society | Warren County, Lebanon

SPONSORSHIPS: $44,500

$25,000 - 2022 Chagrin Documentary Film Festival | Fevered Dream Productions | Cuyahoga County, Chagrin Falls
$25,000 - The Ohio Newsroom | Ideastream Public Media | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$25,000 - Ohio Women's Suffrage Monument Commission | Capitol Square Foundation | Franklin County, Columbus
$20,000 - Over-the-Rhine Film Festival | LADD, Inc | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$15,000 - 2022 Ohioana Book Festival | Ohioana Library Association | Franklin County, Columbus
$14,000 - Books by the Banks | Books by the Banks | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$2,500 - 2022 Ohio Local History Alliance Annual Meeting | Ohio Local History Alliance | Franklin County, Columbus
$2,000 - 2022 Ohio Museums Association Conference | Ohio Museums Association | Franklin County, Columbus

MAJOR GRANT AWARDS: $145,844

$20,000 - The Black American Tree Project | Starfire Council of Greater Cincinnati | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$20,000 - Cleveland Jewish Book Festival | Mandel Jewish Community Center | Cuyahoga County, Cincinnati
$20,000 - BLACK LIFE as subject MATTER II | Springfield Museum of Art | Clark County, Springfield
$20,000 - “A Black Man in Blue:” Race and Policing in Toledo Through the Lens of Opera | Toledo Opera Association | Lucas County, Toledo
$20,000 - Ohioana Book Festival | Ohioana Library Association | Franklin County, Columbus
$20,000 - In Their Footsteps: Cleveland’s African American Civil Rights Trail | Cleveland Restoration Society | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$15,000 - Marietta and the Northwest Territory: K-12 Teacher Workshop | Marietta College History, Political Science, and Religion Department | Washington County, Marietta

MEDIA GRANT AWARDS: $94,410

$20,000 - Digital Green Book | Kent State University Museum | Portage County, Kent
$20,000 - Let Ohio Women Vote | ThinkTV Network | Montgomery County, Dayton
$20,000 - Wildlife Photographer: The Life of Karl Maslowski | Voyageur Media Group | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$19,410 - 10,000 Acres | Denison University | Licking County, Granville
$15,000 - Peerless City | Scioto Literary | Scioto County, Portsmouth

OH STATE CARES AWARDS: $975,400

$120,000 | Center of Science and Industry | Franklin County, Columbus
$43,000 | Armstrong Air and Space Museum | Auglaize County, Wapokoneta
$43,000 | Rainey Institute | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$43,000 | Harmony Project | Franklin County, Columbus
$43,000 | Intermuseum Conservation Association | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$43,000 | National Aviation Hall of Fame | Montgomery County, Dayton
$43,000 | Ohio Alliance of YMCAs Foundation | Franklin County, Columbus
$43,000 | Ohio Glass Museum | Fairfield County, Lancaster
$43,000 | Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center | Sandusky County, Fremont
$43,000 | Shaker Historical Society and Museum | Cuyahoga County, Shaker Heights
$43,000 | Children's Museum of Cleveland | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$43,000 | Clark County Historical Society | Clark County, Springfield
$43,000 | Mercantile Library | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$43,000 | Wexner Center Foundation | Franklin County, Columbus
$43,000 | Central Ohio YMCA | Franklin County, Columbus
$25,000 | American Sign Museum | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$25,000 | Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center | Athens County, Athens
$25,000 | Dover Historical Society and Reeves Museum | Tuscarawas County, Dover
$25,000 | Massillon Museum | Stark County, Massillon
$25,000 | National Cambridge Collective | Guernsey County, Cambridge
$21,000 | Sylvania Historical Village | Lucas County, Sylvania
$20,000 | Champaign Aviation Museum | Champaign County, Urbana
$19,000 | Children's Historical Publishing | Montgomery County, Dayton
$17,400 | Museum of Ceramics | Columbiana County, East Liverpool
$12,000 | Akron Children's Museum | Summit County, Akron
$10,000 | Invest in Neighborhoods, Inc. | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$10,000 | Ohio Museums Association | Stark County, Alliance

SHARP GRANT AWARDS: $730,016

RECOVERY GRANT AWARDS: $65,390

$7,500 | Allen County Historical Society | Allen County, Lima
$7,500 | American Sign Museum | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$7,500 | Dayton International Peace Museum | Montgomery County, Dayton
$7,500 | Decorative Arts Center of Ohio | Fairfield County, Lancaster
$7,500 | Friends of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$7,500 | Stark County Historical Society | Stark County, Canton
$7,000 | Preble County Historical Society | Preble County, Eaton
$6,920 | Black Studies and Library Association | Hancock County, Findlay
$2,550 | EVAC Project | Wood County, Perrysburg
$1,920 | Noble County Historical Society | Noble County, Caldwell

QUARTERLY GRANT AWARDS: $86,695.53

$7,500 – Visible Man: Art and Black Male Subjectivity | Bowling Green State University Fine Arts Center Galleries | Wood County, Bowling Green
$7,500 – #CALReads Speaker Series | Center for Arts-Inspired Learning | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$7,500 – Glenford Fort Cultural Experience | Perry Soil and Water Conservation District | Perry County, Somerset
$7,500 – Ideas of Race and Racism in American and World History: A Professional Development Workshop for Grades 7-12 Social Studies Teachers | Ohio State University Goldberg Center | Franklin County, Columbus
$7,500 – The River Speaks | Little Miami Watershed Network and Greene County Community Foundation | Greene County, Xenia
$7,400 – Cabinet of Curiosities at Mac-A-Cheek | Mac-A-Cheek Foundation for the Humanities | Logan County, West Liberty
$7,381.53 – Athens Humanities in the Park | Ohio University Ping Institute for the Teaching of the Humanities | Athens County, Athens
$6,910 – Facing History and Ourselves: The Rural Cemetery Movement in Green Lawn | Green Lawn Cemetery Association | Franklin County, Columbus
$7,500 – Visible Man: Art and Black Male Subjectivity | Bowling Green State University Fine Arts Center Galleries | Wood County, Bowling Green
$6,000 – Ohio Artist Sala Bosworth Exhibit | Dawes Arboretum | Licking County, Newark
$5,654 – Shaker Historical Society Oral History Program | Shaker Historical Society and Museum | Cuyahoga County, Shaker Heights
$5,000 – In Times of War | Ashland Main Street | Ashland County, Ashland
$3,350 – Ohio Book Talks | Buckeye Authors Book Fair Committee | Wayne County, Wooster

MONTHLY GRANT AWARDS: $22,464

$2,000 – "A Black Man in Blue:" The Intersection of Race and Policing in Toledo | Toledo Opera Association | Lucas County, Toledo
$2,000 – "Sons of Toledo" Film Project | Toledo Public Works and Glacity Theatre Collective | Lucas County, Toledo
$2,000 – John Glenn Centennial Heritage Trail | Zanesville-Muskingum County Convention & Visitors Center | Muskingum County, Zanesville
$2,000 – LatinX in Southern Ohio Planning Grant | Southern Ohio Folklife | Scioto County, Friendship
$2,000 – LHS Annual Meeting - We're Forty...Now What? | Lorain Historical Society | Lorain County, Lorain
$2,000 – Planning "A Shield for the Finnish Community: Self-Guided Tour" | Conneaut Arts Center | Ashtabula County, Conneaut
$2,000 – Planning Grant for Audio Tour App | Cleveland Cultural Gardens Foundation | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$2,000 – Rethinking Jamestown | Arts Alive Clark State Performing Arts Center | Clark County, Springfield
$2,000 – Trailblazing Women in Ohio Politics | Bowling Green State University Political Science Department | Wood County, Bowling Green
$1,964– Invisible Ground Planning Grant | Athens County Historical Society and Museum | Athens County, Athens
$1,500 – Engaging Diverse Audiences for the Civil War Lecture Series | Peninsula Foundation | Summit County, Peninsula
$1,000 – Mayor Karb and the Great Flood of 1913 | Green Lawn Abbey Preservation Association | Franklin County, Columbus

SPONSORSHIPS: $4,000

$2,000 – Ohio Museums Association Conference 2021 | Ohio Museums Association | Franklin County, Columbus
$2,000 – Ohio Local History Alliance 2021 Annual Meeting | Ohio Local History Alliance | Franklin County, Columbus

MAJOR GRANT AWARDS: $240,868

$20,000- Mapping May 4th: Voices of a Community | Kent State University | Portage County, Kent
$20,000- Marion Voices Bicentennial Oral History & Folklife Project | Marion County Historical Society | Marion County, Marion
$20,000- 2020 Ohioana Book Festival | Ohioana Library Association | Franklin County, Columbus
$20,000- No Mere Button-Pressers: Clarence H. White, Ema Spencer, and the Newark Camera Club | Columbus Museum of Art | Franklin County, Columbus
$20,000- Taking Our History: Providing Hope through the Humanities | Akron Children’s Hospital | Summit County, Akron
$19,965- HIV in the Rustbelt | University of Toledo Foundation | Lucas County, Toledo
$19,800- “A Higher Law: The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue” | Oberlin Heritage Center | Lorain County, Oberlin
$19,788- Love Thru Darkness | Media Working Group | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$19,300- Midpoint Humanities Series | Midstory | Lucas County, Toledo
$17,000- Dementia and Personhood: Facts and Myths | Cleveland Clinic | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$15,980- Grounded Hope Podcast Series | Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions | Greene County, Yellow Springs
$14,600- Ohio & Erie Canal Southern Descent Heritage Trail | Scenic Scioto Heritage Trail | Scioto County, Portsmouth
$14,435- Press & the Presidency | Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center | Fremont County, Sandusky

MONTHLY GRANT AWARDS: $36,145

QUARTERLY GRANT AWARDS: $19,959

$5,000- Pandemics Past, Present, and Future: What history teaches us about how to prepare for, survive, and rebuild from pandemics | Ohio State University History Department | Franklin County, Columbus
$5,000- Shelby Cycle Museum | Shelby Cycle Historical Society | Richland County, Shelby
$4,984- Stories in the Woods: A Community-based History Told Along the Trails of Wintergarden/St. John’s Woods | Bowling Green State University | Wood County, Bowling Green
$4,975- Cuyahoga River and Downtown Cuyahoga Falls History Trail | Downtown Cuyahoga Falls Partnership, Inc. | Summit County, Cuyahoga Falls

MAJOR GRANT AWARDS: $154,470

$ 20,000 – For Comfort and Convenience: Public Charity in Ohio By Way of the Poor Farm | Wood County Historical Society | Wood County, Bowling Green

$ 20,000 – 2019 Ohioana Book Festival | Ohioana Library Association | Franklin County, Columbus

$ 20,000 – Books by the Banks 2019 | Books by the Banks | Hamilton County, Cincinnati

$ 18,000 – Celebrating The Centennial Of Women’s Suffrage | League of Women Voters of Ohio Education Fund | Franklin County, Columbus

$ 17,500 – Ohio Women and the Fight for Voter Rights | Ohio History Connection | Franklin County, Columbus

$ 17,000 – Cleveland Jewish Book Festival | Mandel Jewish Community Center | Cuyahoga County, Beachwood

$ 15,000 – Finding Her Voice | Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center | Sandusky County, Fremont

$ 14,000 – Crooked River Contrasts and Conversations | West Creek Conservancy | Cuyahoga County, Parma

$ 12,970 – #CitizenCLE: 2019 NEA Big Read | Center for Arts-Inspired Learning | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland

MEDIA GRANT AWARD: $50,500‬

$ 18,000 – Veterans across the Spectrum: Transition to Transformation | Wright State University Veteran and Military Center | Greene County, Dayton

$ 17,000 – “County Lines,” WYSO’s Rural Reporting Series — Season 2 | WYSO FM | Greene County, Yellow Springs

$ 15,500 – King of Cincinnati | Cincinnati Preservation Association | Hamilton County, Cincinnati

HERITAGE TOURISM GRANT AWARDS: $20,000

$ 15,000 – “BF” Interlocking Tower Interpretive Exhibits | Bradford Ohio Railroad Museum | Miami County, Bradford

$ 5,000 – “Jewish Cincinnati: A Walk Through History” | Jewish Federation of Cincinnati | Hamilton County, Blue Ash

EDUCATOR ENRICHMENT GRANT AWARDS: $16,175

$ 14,175 – The Right To Vote: The 15th and 19th Amendments | Cleveland State University | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland

$ 2,000 – Apollo 11: Embracing the Story | Auglaize County Educational Service Center | Auglaize County, Wapakoneta

QUARTERLY GRANT AWARDS: $28,500

$ 5,000 – Exhibit: Ohio Pioneers: “From such beginnings, much may be expected” | Marietta College | Washington County, Marietta

$ 5,000 – Celebrating the Pioneers | Friends of the Museums, Inc. | Washington County, Marietta

$ 5,000 – A Secret History of American River People | Ohio State University Office Of Sponsored Programs | Franklin County, Columbus

$ 5,000 – Ashland Chautauqua 2019: Art & Innovation | Ashland Chautauqua | Ashland County, Ashland

$ 5,000 – Fall Literary Festival | Lit Youngstown | Mahoning County, Youngstown

$ 3,500 – The Flying Hobos | Second Baptist Church | Franklin County, Columbus

MONTHLY GRANT AWARDS: $34,508

$ 2,000 – Isham Jones Lecture | Ted Lewis Museum | Pickaway County, Circleville

$ 2,000 – UNLADYLIKE2020: Theda Bara, Evelyn Beatrice Longman, and Mary Church Terrell | Independent Pictures | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland

$ 2,000 – No Bounds: The Story of Cleo Vaughn | Diverse Media Zone, Inc | Franklin County, Columbus

$ 2,000 – Trees in Trouble at the World Forum on Urban Forestry | Media Working Group | Hamilton County, Cincinnati

$ 2,000 – Create Experiential Humanities Learning Program for Rossford, Ohio | Rossford CVB | Wood County, Rossford

$ 2,000 – A River Runs Through It: Planning for Public Humanities Engagement with the History and Culture of the Little Miami River | University of Dayton | Montgomery County, Dayton

$ 2,000 – Benchmarking Best Practices for Self-Guided Tours in Historic House Museums | Oberlin Heritage Center | Lorain County, Oberlin

$ 2,000 – Clarence White and the Newark Camera Club | Columbus Museum of Art | Franklin County, Columbus

$ 2,000 – Civility in an Era of Hostility: An Interfaith Perspective | Interfaith Association of Central Ohio | Franklin County, Columbus

$ 2,000 – Wildlife Photographer: The Life of Karl Maslowski | Voyageur Media Group, Inc | Hamilton County, Cincinnati

$ 2,000 – Creating the Cuyahoga River & Putzfrau Museum | Phastar | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland

$ 1,986 – Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Documentary | Diverse Media Zone, Inc | Franklin County, Columbus

$ 1,918 – Akron History Hikes: Rediscovering Diverse Forces for Reform/Social Justice in the Akron Area | Summit County Historical Society | Summit County, Akron

$ 1,840 – Your Music, My Music, Our Music: Cincinnati Women Musicians at King Records and Today | King Studios, LLC | Hamilton County, Cincinnati

$ 1,604 – Latino Voices of the Valley: An Oral History Project | Youngstown State University | Mahoning County, Youngstown

$ 1,600 – ConverZations! | Canton Symphony Orchestra | Stark County, Canton

$ 1,000 – American Global Leadership in a Changing World | Cleveland Council on World Affairs | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland

$ 1,000 – Come Together: Historic Churches of North Canton | North Canton Heritage Society | Stark County, Canton

$900 – Uncovering the Storied History of the Grand River Conservation Campus | The Nature Conservancy in Ohio | Franklin County, Dublin

$ 660 – Witches, Daemonologie & Macbeth | Opera Western Reserve | Mahoning County, Youngstown

MAJOR GRANT AWARDS: $149,333

$20,000 – Books by the Banks | Books by the Banks | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$20,000 – Harvest: Gathering Voices from Rural Ohio | WYSO FM | Greene County, Yellow Springs
$20,000 – 2018 Ohioana Book Festival | Ohioana Library Association | Franklin County, Columbus
$20,000 – Reinterpreting Cincinnati’s Public Landing to Enliven the Visitor Experience | Cincinnati Museum Center | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$20,000 – Voices from Ohio’s Opioid Epidemic | Ohio University Research & Technology Center (RTEC) | Athens County, Athens
$19,983 – Patriotism & Protest: Engaging our Veterans | Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center | Sandusky County, Fremont
$18,000 – One Community Reads | Cuyahoga County Public Library | Cuyahoga County, Parma
$11,350 – Walking the Stories: Tenement Life in Over-the-Rhine | Over-the-Rhine Museum | Hamilton County, Cincinnati

MEDIA GRANT AWARD: $14,958

$14,958 – Summit County and the Great War: In the Words of Those Who Served | Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens | Summit County, Akron

HERITAGE TOURISM GRANT AWARDS: $4,000

$2,000 – Enhancing Gant Museum Cultural Heritage Tourism | Nelson T. Gant Foundation | Muskingum County, Zanesville
$2,000 – Packard’s Columbus Walking Tour | Wild Goose Creative | Franklin County, Columbus

EDUCATOR ENRICHMENT GRANT AWARDS: $40,000

$20,000 – Holocaust & Humanity Center Educator Professional Development | Holocaust & Humanity Center | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$15,000 – Heritage Language Summit: Embracing Ohio’s Cultural and Linguistic Diversity | Ohio State University Center for Languages, Literature, and Culture | Franklin County, Columbus
$5,000 – Bringing Shakespeare to Life in the Classroom | Cincinnati Shakespeare Company | Hamilton County, Cincinnati

QUARTERLY GRANT AWARDS: $43,312

$5,000 – Ashland Chautauqua 2018: Oceans, Rivers and Seas | Ashland Chautauqua | Ashland County, Ashland
$5,000 – Cleveland Stories | Literary Cleveland | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$5,000 – G is for Gun – Website development and community screening | ThinkTV Network | Montgomery County, Dayton
$5,000 – Kent and the Great War | Kent Historical Society | Portage County, Kent
$5,000 – Medieval Matters | Way Public Library | Wood County, Perrysburg
$5,000 – “We Shall Remember Them: How Columbus Remembered the Great War” | Columbus Historical Society | Franklin County, Columbus
$4,927 – The Athens Asylum: 150 years of a healing landscape | Southeast Ohio History Center | Athens County, Athens
$4,885 – Lunch and Learn | Taft Museum of Art | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$3,500 – Women in Kent: Creativity, Gender, Situatedness | Kent State University | Portage County, Kent

MONTHLY GRANT AWARDS: $21,807

$2,000 – Civics Materials for Community Outreach | League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Columbus | Franklin County, Columbus
$2,000 – Cultural Heritage Walk Program | Cincinnati Nature Center | Clermont County, Milford
$2,000 – Historical Thinking: From Theory to Application | Educational Service Center of Cuyahoga County | Cuyahoga County, Valley View
$2,000 – Interpretive Heritage Plan | Cleveland Grays Archive & Armory | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$2,000 – Marion Voices Oral History & Folklife Project Planning Grant | Marion County Historical Society | Marion County, Marion
$2,000 – Westcott Lecture Program | Westcott House Foundation | Clark County, Springfield
$2,000 – Zoar Speaker Series | Zoar Community Association and the Ohio Historical Society | Tuscarawas County, Zoar
$1,978 – The United States and World Fascism: Human Rights from the Spanish Civil War to Nuremberg and Beyond (1-day NEOEA Workshop Presentation) | Oberlin College | Lorain County, Oberlin
$1,960 – Oral History of the Little Brown Jug Race | Delaware County Historical Society | Delaware County, Delaware
$1,944 – Voices of Trumbull County | Trumbull County Historical Society | Trumbull County, Warren
$1,925 – Art & Religion | An Intersection | Power of the Arts | Mahoning County, Youngstown

MAJOR GRANT AWARDS: $75,195

$20,000 – 2017 Ohioana Book Festival |Ohioana Library Association | Franklin County, Columbus
$17,500 – Cultural Heritage Chronicle: A Capstone Publication for the Lee-Harvard Neighborhood | Cleveland Restoration Society | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$15,000 – Austin-Magie Farm and Mill District, Oxford, Ohio: Digital Humanities Map & Learning Resources | Miami University | Butler County, Oxford
$12,695 – A Story Map of the Battle of the Wabash and the Battle of Fort Recovery | Fort Recovery Historical Society | Mercer County, Fort Recovery
$10,000 – Mandel JCC Cleveland Jewish Book Festival | Mandel Jewish Community Center | Cuyahoga County, Beachwood

MEDIA GRANT AWARDS: $35,000

$20,000 – ‘Growing Right’: The Rise of Ohio’s Ecological Food and Farm Movement, 1970s-Present | Ohio Ecological Food & Farm Association | Franklin County, Columbus
$15,000 – World Peace Study Mission Digital Exhibit | Wilmington College Peace Resource Center | Clinton County, Wilmington

HERITAGE TOURISM GRANT AWARDS: $19,000

$15,000 – German Village Interpretive Trail | German Village Society | Franklin County, Columbus
$2,000 – Cultural Heritage of the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio and the Reese-Peters House | Decorative Arts Center of Ohio | Fairfield County, Lancaster
$2,000 – John Brown House – Positioning our Properties for the Future | Summit County Historical Society | Summit County, Akron

EDUCATOR ENRICHMENT GRANT AWARD: $6,700

$6,700 – Human Rights in a Global Perspective: Mass Atrocities and State-Sponsored Violence | Ohio State University Slavic, East European Languages | Franklin County, Columbus

QUARTERLY GRANT AWARDS: $38,530

$5,000 – Ashland Chautauqua 2017: Voices of Courage | Ashland Chautauqua | Ashland County, Ashland
$5,000 – Civil Conversations About Constitutional Matters: Roundtable Discussions on Constitutional Issues – Free Press, Freedom of Speech, Peaceable Assembly and Separation of Powers | Walsh University | Stark County, North Canton
$5,000 – Piqua Chautauqua: World War I Centennial | Mainstreet Piqua, Inc. | Miami County, Piqua
$5,000 – The Spirit of Neighborhoods: Culture Walks | Columbus Landmarks Foundation | Franklin County, Columbus
$5,000 – Stokes Oral History Project | Cuyahoga Community College | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$5,000 – Who We Are, Where We Live | Literary Cleveland | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$4,500 – If Truth Be Told… | Bowling Green State University | Wood County, Bowling Green
$4,030 – Ohio Farm Stories: Capturing and Reflecting on Hancock County’s Agricultural History | University of Findlay | Hancock County, Findlay

MONTHLY GRANT AWARDS: $16,930

$2,000 – Development of the Celebrating Victoria Woodhull Project | Robbins Hunter Museum Restoration and Preservation Corporation | Licking County, Granville
$2,000 – Six Word Stroll and Share | Short North Alliance | Franklin County, Columbus
$2,000 – Steamboats on the Ohio River Exhibit | Old Fort Steuben Project, Inc. | Jefferson County, Steubenville
$2,000 – Ted Lewis Museum 40^th Anniversary Lecture | Ted Lewis Museum | Pickaway County, Circleville
$2,000 – “Twenty-Six Seconds”: An Evening with Alexandra Zapruder | James A. Garfield National Historic Site | Lake County, Mentor
$1,995 – Bicentennial Speaker Series | Zoar Community Association and the Ohio Historical Society | Tuscarawas County, Zoar
$1,995 – Appalachia Exposed: Representing the Mountain South in American Regionalism | Springfield Museum of Art | Clark County, Springfield
$1,095 – The Yanks Are Coming: America in the Great War, 1917-1919 | Lorain County Community College | Lorain County, Elyria
$950 – History & People of Ohio | Buckeye Authors Book Fair Committee, Inc. | Wayne County, Wooster
$895 – “Cooperation Through Prosperity: Marshall Plan Posters for Post-WWII European Recovery” Exhibit Programming | Wilmington College Quaker Heritage Center | Clinton County, Wilmington

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