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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>FY2025 MHC Survey & Planning Grant Pre-Applications Now Available<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Massachusetts Historical Commission (MHC) has begun the Fiscal Year 2025
<u>Survey and Planning Grant</u> cycle. For the FY 2025 round, eligible applicants are anticipated to include all local historical commissions, local historic district commissions, municipal planning offices, and other public and non-profit historic preservation
organizations. At the time of this writing total available funding for the FY 2025 matching grant round is still contingent on MHC’s FY 2025 federal budget allocation, which has not yet been determined. For FY 2025 the MHC/Grantee match shares will be 50/50.
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<p class="MsoNormal">As the State Historic Preservation Office, the Massachusetts Historical Commission is responsible for administering the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended. The Act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, through the
National Park Service and State Historic Preservation Offices, to grant funds to communities and private non-profit organizations for a wide range of preservation‑related activities. These include completion of cultural resource inventories, nomination of
significant properties to the National Register of Historic Places, completion of community-wide preservation plans, and other types of studies, reports, publications and projects that relate to the identification and protection of significant historic properties
and sites. The goal of the Survey and Planning Grant program is to support efforts to identify and plan for the protection of the significant historic buildings, structures, archaeological sites and landscapes of the Commonwealth.<b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">With this announcement, the MHC is initiating the Fiscal Year 2025 grant round of funding for Certified Local Governments (CLGs), municipal historic preservation commissions, non-profit organizations and other eligible applicants. (MHC
is required under federal law to pass through 10% of its annual federal budget allocation to CLGs. CLGs in Massachusetts are the municipalities of Boston, Bedford, Beverly, Brookline, Danvers, Dedham, Eastham, Easton, Falmouth, Framingham, Gloucester, Grafton,
Hingham, Holyoke, Lexington, Lowell, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Marblehead, Medfield, Medford, Methuen, Nantucket, New Bedford, Newton, Plymouth, Quincy, Salem, Somerville, Sudbury, and Worcester.) In Fiscal Year 2025 the grant program is anticipated to be available
to both CLG and non-CLG municipalities, as well as other qualified applicants. <b>
<u>Please note that while all eligible projects will be considered, for FY 2025 MHC will prioritize planning and National Register projects (Categories B.2 and B.3 in the current
<i>Guidelines for Survey & Planning Grant Applicants</i>).</u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A Survey and Planning grant can provide critical support for projects that help to preserve the character of your community.
<u>Please consider applying for a grant by completing a pre‑application and returning it to the Massachusetts Historical Commission by Friday, November 15, 2024, 5 p.m.</u> (<u>no faxed or emailed applications accepted</u>). Additional information, guidelines
and the pre-application form are available on MHC’s web site at: <a href="https://www.sec.state.ma.us/divisions/mhc/grants/survey-and-planning.htm">
https://www.sec.state.ma.us/divisions/mhc/grants/survey-and-planning.htm</a> <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Jennifer B. Doherty<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Local Government Programs Coordinator<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Massachusetts Historical Commission<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">220 Morrissey Boulevard<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Boston, MA 02125-3314<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Office: (617) 727-8470<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Remote: (617) 807-0685<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Jennifer.Doherty@sec.state.ma.us">Jennifer.Doherty@sec.state.ma.us</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Register for <a href="https://www.sec.state.ma.us/divisions/mhc/programs/workshops.htm">
virtual workshops</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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