TRENTON, SexyÕæÈË â€“ The New Jersey Historical Commission met on July 21, 2011 in Trenton and approved $2,355,000 in General Operating Support grants to a total of 75 historical organizations, museums, historic sites, archives and libraries throughout New Jersey.
The Historical Commission’s General Operating Support program is designed to assist in developing the capacity of historical organizations caring for collections and providing programs and services relating to New Jersey history. Investment in the program enables the Commission to fulfill its mission to enrich the lives of New Jersey residents by preserving the historical record and advancing interest in and awareness of the state’s past. Through the award of 75 operating grants in FY 2012 the Commission joins with the history community to collectively achieve important goals, including raising public awareness of state history, increasing public access to history collections and participation in history programming, facilitating new research and programming, and advancing preservation and collections care.
Our state’s historical organizations provide valuable public services that include enriching New Jersey’s classrooms and the education of its children as they welcome students to their sites, assist teachers with curriculum development, and provide internships to foster the next generation of history patrons and professionals. Beyond servicing our youth and teachers in FY 2010, history organizations offered on and off-site programs to over 23.7 million people and supported over 480 jobs.
The New Jersey Historical Commission’s grants are determined by a peer review process and funding is made possible by a portion of the revenue produced by the state’s Hotel/Motel Tax legislation.
FY 2012 New Jersey Historical Commission FY 2012 General Operating Support Grants:
Atlantic County | |
$25,892 | Absecon Lighthouse/IPPA |
$8,249 | Atlantic County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs |
$6,639 | South Jersey Cultural Alliance |
Bergen County | |
$20,714 | Bergen County Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs |
$35,187 | Friends of the Hermitage, Inc. |
$5,000 | Mahwah Museum Society, Inc. |
$5,000 | Pascack Historical Society |
$11,154 | Water Works Conservancy, Inc. |
Burlington County | |
$31,071 | Alice Paul Institute |
$6,500 | John Woolman Memorial Association |
$9,934 | National Society of the Colonial Dames in America, SexyÕæÈË |
$18,750 | Roebling Museum |
$14,639 | Whitesbog Preservation Trust |
Camden County | |
$15,934 | Camden County Historical Society |
$32,500 | Home Port Alliance for the USS New Jersey, Inc. |
$5,850 | Lawnside Historical Society, Inc. |
Cape May County | |
$8,548 | Cape May County Division of Culture & Heritage |
$9,750 | Cape May County Historical & Genealogical Society |
$74,590 | Historic Cold Spring Village |
$275,218 | Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts & Humanities |
$19,867 | Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum |
Cumberland County | |
$62,740 | Bayshore Discovery Project |
$12,000 | Cumberland County Cultural and Heritage Commission |
$51,377 | Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center |
Essex County | |
$12,000 | Essex County Division of Cultural Affairs |
$7,425 | Historical Society of West Caldwell |
$19,500 | Montclair Historical Society |
$64,267 | Newark Public Library |
Gloucester County | |
$8,326 | Gloucester County Cultural & Heritage Commission |
Hunterdon County | |
$13,146 | Hunterdon County Cultural & Heritage Commission |
$11,830 | Red Mill Museum Village |
Hudson County | |
$44,6490 | Hoboken Historical Museum |
Mercer County | |
$9,295 | Crossroads of the American Revolution Association |
$6,639 | Genealogical Society of New Jersey |
$65,000 | Historic Morven |
$69,780 | Historical Society of Princeton |
$19,500 | Montclair Historical Society |
$64,267 | Newark Public Library |
Middlesex County | |
$26,000 | Edison Memorial Tower Corporation |
$134,683 | Middlesex County Cultural & Heritage Commission |
$87,138 | Rutgers University, Special Collections and University Archives |
$92,018 | Thomas A. Edison Papers |
Monmouth County | |
$10,399 | Allaire Village |
$6,639 | Historical Society of Ocean Grove |
$84,350 | Monmouth County Historical Association |
Morris County | |
$7,500 | Canal Society of New Jersey |
$64,266 | Historic Sites of the Morris County Park Commission |
$6,239 | Jewish Historical Society of Metrowest |
$20,844 | Morris County Heritage Commission |
$19,867 | Morris County Historical Society |
$29,013 | Morristown & Morris Township Public Library |
$38,201 | Museum of Early Trades & Crafts |
$5,000 | Roxbury Historic Trust |
$199,972 | Save Ellis Island, Inc. |
$25,000 | Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms |
Ocean County | |
$17,428 | Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen's Museum, Inc. (Tuckerton Seaport) |
$15,000 | Ocean County Historical Society |
$13,056 | Ocean County Cultural & Heritage Commission |
Passaic County | |
$15,137 | American Labor Museum/Botto House National Landmark |
$10,517 | Passaic County Cultural & Heritage Council |
Salem County | |
$14,341 | Salem County Cultural & Heritage Commission |
$32,122 | Salem County Historical Society |
Somerset County | |
$11,352 | Friends of the Jacobus Vanderveer House |
Sussex County | |
$5,000 | Montague Association for the Restoration of Community History |
Union County | |
$5,000 | Cranford Historical Society |
$6,159 | Kenilworth Historical Society Incorporated |
$18,750 | Merchants & Drovers Tavern Museum Association |
$13,245 | Plainfield Public Library |
$61,826 | Union County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs |