Materials for 2023–2024 Public Program Grantees

Congratulations on your 2023 Oregon Humanities Public Program Grant! We’re pleased to support your work. This page contains resources for your grant management. 

Items grantees will receive via email from us:

• Grant Agreement - the legal document for your grant
• Links for filing your Interim Report and your Final Report

Note: Do not share these links—they are specific to your grant award.

Please review the items in the grants management checklist below. Should you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact grants and programs coordinator Dawn Smallman via email at grants@oregonhumanities.org or at (503) 241-0543 x 110.

Grant Management Checklist

Grant Agreement:

• Carefully read your Grant Agreement, sign it, and return it to Oregon Humanities
• Contact us with any questions
• Save a copy of the signed agreement for your records

 Federal Labor Standards Information and Form:

• Review the Federal Labor Standards
• If applicable, sign the Federal Labor Standards for Professional Performers and Related Professional Personnel form and return it to Oregon Humanities, grants@oregonhumanities.org

Donation Records:

• Track your in-kind support with the Program Donation Record for Volunteer Services and Facilities, Equipment, and Resources Form. This form is for your own organizational and grant-management records, but it may be requested during an audit by Oregon Humanities and/or the National Endowment for the Humanities. Duplicate and distribute the Donation Record Form as applicable.

Publicity / Crediting OH and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH):

As per your Grant Agreement, Sections 13 and 14, grantees are required to credit Oregon Humanities and the NEH as funding sources in their publicity materials. Grantee shall specify in all written, print, or electronic public relations and informational materials:

• “This program was made possible in part by a grant from Oregon Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.” 
• Additionally, please credit Oregon Humanities by including our logo.
• Oregon Humanities Logo. Additional formats may be found here. 
• Additionally, please credit the National Endowment of the Humanities, by including their Policy Statement and by using their logo, as called for on their website:  www.neh.gov/grants/manage/acknowledgment-and-publicity-requirements-neh-awards
• Please tag Oregon Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities in your social media posts about funded events.
  • Facebook: oregon.humanities, nehgov
  • Twitter: @orhumanities, @NEHgov
  • Instagram: @oregonhumanities, @nehgov

Where room allows in your promotional materials, please add:

• This program was made possible in part by a grant from Oregon Humanities (OH), a statewide nonprofit organization and an independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds OH’s grant program. Oregon Humanities offers programs and publications that help Oregonians connect, reflect, and learn from one another.”

Acknowledgements to all sponsors shall also be made in media interviews related to the grant award.

Grantee may publish, without charge to grant funds, the results of grant activity, provided that such publications (written, visual, or audio) contain an acknowledgment of OH and all sponsors’ grant support. The publication must also include the following statement: “Any views, findings, and conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this (publication) (program) (exhibition) (website) do not necessarily reflect the views of Oregon Humanities and other sponsors.” 

One copy of each such print publication must be furnished to OH at no charge; if the expense of making copies is in excess of $50.00, OH will pay for the cost of each such copy that it requests.  

A URL for any visual, digital, or audio media created through this grant funding is required in the Final Grant Report, so that OH can view the media. 

Events:

• Submit an Event Form to Oregon Humanities at least 10 business days prior to the start of each grant-funded event. This allows us to help get the word out about your event and possibly attend.

Gather Grant Reporting Assets:

• Archive copies of any materials (physical or digital) that demonstrate the promotion of the event to the public to submit with the Final Narrative Report Form. 
• Prepare a shareable URL link to a digital copy of any final publications or recordings produced using grant funds.
• Record attendance at all grant-funded events (including in-person and online events) for reporting in the Final Narrative Report Form. 

Reporting Requirements:

• You must submit an Interim Report to Oregon Humanities by Nov. 1, 2023.
• You must submit a Final Report, which includes a Final Narrative Report and a Fiscal Expense Report, to Oregon Humanities no later than August 14, 2024.

Requesting extensions to the grant period:

• If necessary, request changes to the duration of the grant period, in writing to Dawn Smallman, Grants and Programs Coordinator (contact info at top of this page), at least thirty (30) days prior to the end of the grant period. We cannot guarantee we can accommodate extension requests.