DC Oral History Collaborative Grants (Beyond the Archives; Continuing Oral History Projects)
Community-directed grants for oral history work in Washington, DC: Beyond the Archives ($12,000) funds public-facing projects built on existing oral history collections; Continuing Oral History Projects ($8,000-$13,000) funds adding interviews to an existing collection.
- Indicative award
- $8k–$25k (total award)Published per-programme figures: Beyond the Archives $12,000; Continuing Oral History Projects $8,000-$13,000; General Operating Support $25,000. The range given here spans those published figures across the three programmes.
- Timing
- Several times a yearSeveral times a year · Feb, Mar, MayNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Three programmes opened March 3, 2026 with a May 1, 2026 deadline (now passed); Community Culture & Heritage, Visions, and the main DC Oral History Collaborative grant closed February 18, 2026. Cycles recur, so check for the next opening.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner, Master's / undergraduate
- Eligibility
- Individuals, community groups and nonprofits doing DC-based work; the Continuing Oral History Projects grant is restricted to prior DC Oral History Collaborative grantees. General Operating Support is limited to nonprofits with budgets under $2 million.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- oral history · community archives · public programming · washington dc
- Apply at
- https://humanitiesdc.org/grant-opportunities/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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