We’re very pleased to announce the results of the second cycle of NHN’s microfunding program. We received a total of nine proposals this year, which were reviewed by a committee of seven professionals including historians, librarians, and archivists. The NHN Board has approved funding for four proposals that earned enthusiastic support from our reviewers:

Project: “Roots & Wings Oral History Project”
Organization: Rural Organizing Project
Project Director: Sarah K. Loose
With their $250 award, ROP will fund audio editing of oral histories related to grassroots human dignity organizing in rural Oregon.

Project: “Archival boxes, the key to organizing our past”
Organization: Latah County Historical Society
Project Director: Zachary Wnek, Museum Curator
The society will use their $250 award to purchase archival supplies for preserving historical records.

Project: “Oregon Quilt Project Documentation Phase”
Organization: Oregon Quilt Project
Project Director: Mary Bywater Cross
OQP will use their $235 award to purchase photography equipment for documenting historic quilts according to national standards.

Project: “Purchase archival materials to stabilize documents and photographs”
Organization: Oregon Fire Service Museum
Project Director: Shirley Tormey, Curator
The museum will use their $250 award to purchase archival supplies to preserve documents and photographs on the history of fires and firefighting in Oregon.

Please contact nhn-board@googlegroups.com if you have suggestions about the program or would like to help with this program.