Rural Oral History Project Costs in Montana
GrantID: 73999
Grant Funding Amount Low: $10,000
Deadline: Ongoing
Grant Amount High: $10,000
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Grant Overview
Montana's oral history initiatives confront elevated per-participant costs driven by travel distances between county seats that routinely exceed 120 miles. The grant's cost constraints first criterion requires applicants to document fuel, lodging, and recording-equipment expenses against the state's average of 6.8 residents per square mile outside the seven largest cities.
Rural libraries in counties such as Garfield, Petroleum, and Carter operate with annual materials budgets under $4,000, limiting their ability to host multi-session workshops without external stipends for participants and facilitators. School districts in these same counties maintain one full-time librarian across multiple buildings, restricting workshop scheduling to after-school hours or weekend blocks.
Proposals must itemize equipment depreciation for portable recording kits transported across gravel roads and include replacement costs calculated at three-year intervals. Review criteria assign higher scores to budgets that cap indirect costs at 8 percent and demonstrate matching local library or school cash contributions of at least 12 percent of total project expenses.
The state context differs from adjacent Idaho and Wyoming because Montana's trust-land revenue streams do not directly support cultural programming, forcing oral history projects to rely entirely on external grants for travel. Applicants must therefore present a mileage log template aligned with state reimbursement rates of $0.58 per mile and verify that workshop sites meet Americans with Disabilities Act access standards despite many rural libraries lacking updated ramps.
Cost documentation must also address seasonal road closures between November and April that can add 200 miles of detour. Projects failing to include these variables receive lower priority during review.
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