Please follow the links below to read microfunding progress reports from the four recipients of the NHN microgrants in 2015.

And please note that the deadline for submission of proposals for the 2016 NHN Microfunding Program was July 1, 2016.

Project: “Life in the Newberg Boyhood Home of Herbert Hoover: A Resource”

Organization: Hoover-Minthorn House Museum

Project Director: Sarah B. Munro

The Hoover-Minthorn House Museum will use their $231 award to develop a resource book for teachers to be used in preparation for class visits to the museum.

Project: “Commemorating the Events and History of the 1934 Longshore Strike”

Microfunding Progress Report

Organization: The Bloody Wednesday Project

Project Director: Ryan Wisnor

The Bloody Wednesday Project will use their $250 award to assist in the costs of drafting a design for a historical marker to bring the history of Bloody Wednesday to the public.

Project: ”Wage/Working explores income inequality through a traveling jukebox of interviews and stories about working”

Microfunding Progress Report

Organization: Wage/Working

Project Director: Laura Hadden

Wage/Working will use their $250 award to fund the installation of the jukebox, which contains oral histories about wage and income inequality, at venues in the Portland area.

Project: “Portland’s Type Casting Heritage Project, an Oral History”

Microfunding Progress Report

Project Director: Rebecca Gilbert

The $250 award will be used to fund the purchase of equipment to record oral history interviews to document the era of hot-metal printing in the Portland Metro area.

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

The Northwest History Network is seeking applications for competitive awards of up to $250 to fund equipment, services, and other one-time needs for history projects. Proposed projects should advance one or more of NHN’s organizational goals:

• Provide professional support for community partners documenting, preserving, and/or presenting their histories.

• Facilitate communication and foster collaboration between public and private organizations, educational institutions, libraries, museums, and archives.

• Protect and increase preservation and access to historical resources and materials.

• Expand historical education by using non-traditional venues to present public history projects.

• Use varied strategies and technologies to promote appreciation and understanding of the past.

• Foster a non-competitive and supportive atmosphere for those committed to public history.

To apply, please respond to the following:

1. Project title or brief description (15 words or less)
2. Contact information for Project Director (individual responsible for managing project and communicating with NHN)
3. Summary of project (200 words or less)
4. Describe how this project relates to NHN’s organizational goals listed above (200 words or less)
5. Amount of funding requested up to $250 and how it will be used

Submit completed proposals to the NHN Project Committee at bryans1212 at q.com. Proposals are due July 1, 2016, and will be evaluated by the Project Committee. In August, the Project Committee will recommend projects to the NHN Board for funding. Applicants will be notified of the Board’s decision by early September. Awardees will be asked to write a short summary and report of their project to share with NHN.

The Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission’s traveling exhibit, “Uprooted: Japanese American Farm Labor Camps During World War II,” will be on display at the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center from February 11 to June 19.

During the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, some 33,000 individual contracts were issued for seasonal farm labor, with many Nikkei working in the sugar beet industry. “Uprooted: Japanese American Farm Labor Camps During World War II” introduces their story. The exhibit features a selection of images from federal photographer Russell Lee’s documentation of Japanese American farm labor camps near the towns of Nyssa, Oregon and Rupert, Shelley, and Twin Falls, Idaho. Visitors will learn about the farm labor camps through Lee’s photographs, interpretative text panels, and a short documentary film featuring firsthand accounts about life in the camps. The exhibit’s website – www.uprootedexhibit.com – includes additional images, historic documents, video clips and transcripts from oral history interviews, and other information.

Please click the following links to view the exhibit press release and poster:

Press release

Poster