Omaha Firefighter’s Historical Society
Nebraska City Historical Society
Crete Historical Society
The NSHSF Statewide Grants Program was developed in July 2020, with the guidance of Michael J. Smith, former CEO of Nebraska State Historical Society to fulfill a funding need for local historical and educational organizations in Nebraska. The grants from this program help organizations such as museums, historical societies, and libraries with core education, preservation, and interpretive programs about community history.
NSHSF has awarded over $173,000 to organizations across the state since the program’s inception. These funds have been used to update technology, support festivals, purchase display cases, facilitate classroom visits, and much more.
The Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation is committed to individual and organizational efforts to build respect, dignity, fairness, equality, and self-esteem. We respect and value diverse life experiences, and are devoted to creating an inclusive and equitable environment for all.
There hasn’t been nor is there now in Nebraska a statewide grants program that can assist local historical efforts on the part of historical societies, museums, archives, and libraries. While states such as Florida, Montana, Minnesota and others have programs in place and while those have been extremely helpful to the chronically-underfunded local historical efforts, to date, no such program has been available in Nebraska.
- American Historical Society of Germans from Russia
- Bess Streeter Aldrich Foundation
- Black Hills Parks and Forests FBO Scotts Bluff National Monument
- Boone County Historical Society, Inc.
- City of Blair FBO Blair Library
- Cortland Museum
- Custer County Museum
- Daughters of the American Revolution, Katahdin Chapter
- Dixon County Historical Society
- Douglas County Historical Society
- Dixon County Historical Society
- Dwight Community Library
- Edgerton Education Fndn (Edgerton Explorit Center)
- Elkhorn Valley Museum
- Eustis Public Library
- Falls City Library and Art Center
- Gage County Historical Society and Museum
- Genoa Historical Museum
- Grant County Historical Society
- Great Plains Black History Museum
- Happy Jack Peak and Chalk Mine
- Hemmingford Publc Library
- Historic Bryant House
- Historic Downtown Plattsmouth Assn.
- Historical Society of Garden County
- Hitchcock County Historical Society
- Holdrege Area Public Library
- Joslyn Castle and Gardens
- Keene Memorial Library
- Long Pine Heritage Society
- M12 Studio
- Mari Sandoz Heritage Society
- Missouri River Basin Lewis and Clark Trail and Interpretive Center
- Movement In Omaha for Racial Equality
- Nance County Veterans Memorial & Military Resource Center
- Nebraska Jewish Historical Society
- Nebraska Indian Community College
- Otoe County Museum of Memories
- Palmer Public Schools District
- Plainview Historical Society
- Platte County Historical Society
- Prairie Arts Center
- Saunders County Historical Society
- Shelton Public Library
- Sherman County Historical Society
- Silver Creek Historical Committee
- Tarnov Heritage Museum
- The Willa Cather Foundation
- Valentine Public Library Foundation
- Valley Community Historical Society
- Washington County Historical Assn.
- White River Wacipi
- Whiteclay Makerspace
- Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska
I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars through the Nation, doing good.
In Nebraska, the history of our state and Nation are kept alive by thousands of these stars doing good through the works of community historical societies, museums and libraries. They protect and preserve not what is Nebraska history but a history that is at the heart of our Nation’s history.
