Funded Projects

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

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:

$5,000 - Rooted Traditions | United Plant Savers | Athens County, Athens
$5,000 - Life Is a Dream Is a Game: Early Prototyping | Otterbein University | Franklin County, Westerville
$5,000 - Bhutan Memory Podcast | Bhutanese Community of Central Ohio | Franklin County, Columbus
$5,000 - 2023 Melvin van Peebles Symposium | Ohio Wesleyan University | Delaware County, Delaware
$5,000 - Inkubator Conference: Humanities Panels | Literary Cleveland | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$5,000 - Beyond the Battlefield: Interpreting St. Clair’s Defeat through the Eyes of Tribal Citizens | Fort Recovery Historical Society | Mercer County, Fort Recovery
$5,000 - History’s Real Action Figures | Ashland Main Street | Ashland County, Ashland
$5,000 - Amy Pleasant - 'Family Album' Exhibition Programming at the Canton Museum of Art | Canton Museum of Art | Stark County, Canton
$5,000 - Equity in the Arts: Preservation of Nostalgia and Articulating Arts Innovation | Lincoln Theatre Association | Franklin County, Columbus
$4,996 - Dorothy Fuldheim Documentary | Media Heritage | West Chester, Butler County
$4,970 - Every Night is Ladies' Night: Stories from Summit Station, Ohio's Longest-Running Lesbian Bar | Lesbians Benefitting the Arts | Franklin County, Columbus
$4,756 - Public Humanities Community Lecture & Campus Workshop | University of Akron Institute for Human Science and Culture | Summit County, Akron
$3,600 - 2024 Speaker Series | Bedford Historical Society | Cuyahoga County, Bedford
$3,357 - Planning Together: Bringing A Black Abolitionist's House Back to Life in Oberlin | Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society | Lorain County, Oberlin
$3,204 - Conversations with Documentary Filmmaker Byron Hurt | Massillon Museum | Stark County, Massillon
$3,000 - All-Ohio Holocaust and Genocide Conference for Educators | Holocaust & Genocide Education Network | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
$3,000 - The Big Picture: A History of Photography in Greater Cincinnati | Voyageur Media Group | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
$3,000 - Museum Explorers’ Club | Warren County Historical Society | Warren County, Lebanon
$1,900 -Stained Glass: The Language of Light | Green Lawn Abbey Preservation Association | Franklin County, Columbus
$800 - Tea & Talk Series 2023 | Wood County Museum | Wood County, Bowling Green

SPONSORSHIPS:

$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

2017 - 2022 Grantees:

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
$15,000 - 2022 Ohioana Book Festival | Ohioana Library Association | Franklin County, Columbus
$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 | Hamilton 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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