$2,500
2023 • 1 year • Chicago Commitment
Based in Chicago, the HistoryMakers is a digital repository of oral history interviews with a wide variety of noted African American leaders. Its online archive is accessed by colleges, universities, K-12 schools, and public libraries, providing a lasting record of African American lives, accomplishments, and contributions through first-person testimony. With this award for professional development, HistoryMakers staff attends the Harvard Business School's Women of Color Leadership Program.
$50,000
2021 • 9 months • Chicago Commitment
Based in Chicago, the HistoryMakers is a digital repository of more than 3,400 African American oral history interviews. Its archive includes video interviews with a wide variety of noted African American leaders and numerous lesser known figures in African American history. Its online archive is accessed by colleges, universities, K-12 schools, and public libraries, providing a lasting record of African American lives, accomplishments, and contributions through first-person testimony. This award supports a series of convenings with digitization experts to develop a plan to preserve the physical collections of African American leaders who are featured in its oral history interview archive.
$225,000
2021 • 3 years • Culture, Equity, and the Arts in Chicago
Based in Chicago, the HistoryMakers is a digital repository of more than 3,400 African American oral history interviews. Its archive includes video interviews with a wide variety of noted African American leaders and numerous lesser known figures in African American history. Its online archive is accessed by colleges, universities, K-12 schools, and public libraries, providing a lasting record of African American lives, accomplishments, and contributions through first-person testimony. This award provides general operating support to HistoryMakers as part of the Foundation’s Culture, Equity, and the Arts program.
$100,000
2006 • 1 year
In support of transcribing and processing oral history interviews with African Americans.
$100,000
2003 • 1 year
To launch the HistoryMakers Education Institute, which will work to improve student literacy through the use of oral history tools.