LEAGUE GRANT PROGRAM and OTHER FUNDING SOURCES

League Grant Program:

Preserve New York

-Overview

Other Funding Sources:

National Trust for Historic Preservation

New York State Council on the Arts

New York State Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP)

New York Landmarks Conservancy

New York State Department of Transportation (TEA-21)

The Great American Station Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts

History of the Rural New York Grant Program (1993-2000)

Funding from the Rural New York Grant Program is no longer available. 

The Rural New York Planning and Preservation Grant Program provided support for small, locally-based projects across New York State. The goals of the program were to: protect the built and natural environments of small towns, villages, and rural areas; strengthen local groups and institutions; improve local economies; and preserve the landscape and cultural values of the state's rural communities. Municipalities, not-for-profit organizations, and citizens groups working on rural preservation projects were eligible to apply.

A wide variety of projects were eligible for funding. These include building and design studies, surveys, and public awareness, technical assistance or circuit rider programs. Special emphasis was given to economic development activities and downtown revitalization. Grant awards did not exceed $5,000. Between 1993 and 1998, the program awarded $1.86 million to 598 worthy projects at critical moments, when a strategic boost could ensure success.

In 1997, the Rural New York Grant Program awarded $5,000 to the Heritage Grist Mill Society to supplement the cost of an architectural and engineering study of an 1840 grist mill in the hamlet of Morley. Stabilization of the mill has already begun.

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