Arkansas Heritage, a division of the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism, announced $24,148 in grants for six local organizations. The Arkansas Heritage Grants Program aims to help community-based and non-profit groups create programs that promote awareness and enjoyment of Arkansas’s heritage, and to make heritage-related programs possible where they would not otherwise occur.

Award recipients are:

• City of Fairfield Bay, Fairfield Bay Historic District QRC Project, $964
• Clinton House Museum, program development, $5,000
• Lifelong Learning Institute of Hot Springs Village, Inc., Third Annual Arkansas Heritage Festival, $5,000
• Quality of Life Outreach, Inc., Celebrating Arkansas, $5,000
• Stone County Historical Society, Stone County Sesquicentennial Celebration, $5,000
• True Grit Trail, Dardanelle 2022, $3,184

In evaluating Arkansas Heritage Grant applications, the organization’s relationship to the community, its mission and sources of income, the impact of the project and the degree to which it will foster heritage tourism development are taken into consideration in addition to other criteria.

Photos of the event are available here.

To learn more about the application process, visit https://www.arkansasheritage.com/available-grants/division-of-arkansas-heritage-grants/arkansas-heritage-grant. The deadline for the next cycle of grant applications is April 13, 2023. Awards are granted twice per year.

For more information about the Arkansas Heritage Grants Program, please contact Debra Fithen, grants manager for Arkansas Heritage, at 501-324-9150 or [email protected].