Diane Nadeau, President and CEO of the Windham Region Chamber of Commerce shares ideas for weekend getaways for history buffs.
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Diane Nadeau, President and CEO of the Windham Region Chamber of Commerce shares ideas for weekend getaways for history buffs.
Read more here, https://www.wtnh.com/ct-style/windham-chamber-of-commerce-unique-weekend-getaways
by DianeN
The Governor has created a new opportunity for museums and historic houses, sites and societies to receive funding to cover your costs this summer by allowing children in Connecticut to visit museums throughout the state free of charge.
The initiative was included as part of the proposal he presented earlier this week to the Connecticut General Assembly to allocate federal COVID-19 recovery funding that Connecticut is receiving from the American Rescue Plan Act. This summer museum portion of the proposal is part of Governor Lamont’s larger plan to provide students and families with engaging summer enrichment and learning experiences in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Under the initiative, all Connecticut children aged 18 and under plus one accompanying adult can visit any of the state’s participating museums free of charge from July 1 to Sept. 6, 2021. It will be supported by a $15 million investment from the state’s federal recovery funds to the participating museums.
So far, Mystic Aquarium, Mystic Seaport Museum, Beardsley Zoo, Connecticut Science Center and the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk have all expressed interest. However, in the coming weeks, all museums in the state will be invited to participate, pending the necessary authorization from the state Legislature.
Grants will be administered by the DECD’s Connecticut Office of the Arts in partnership with Connecticut Humanities. Applications and funding guidelines will be available by May 15, 2021, on both the Office of the Arts’ and Connecticut Humanities’ websites. The final distribution of awards will be contingent pending the necessary authorization from the state Legislature.
The program application is under development and is scheduled to open by May 15, 2021. Any museum in CT may participate in the initiative regardless of whether they apply for or are eligible for funding. Grants to museums that provide free admission for CT children and one accompanying adult will help mitigate significant loss in visitor revenue due to participation in the initiative.
If your organization chooses not to apply for funding, there will be instructions on how to register as a non-funded participant.
To prepare for the application, you are encouraged to start compiling the following information now:
For the purposes of this funding, “museums” refers broadly to historic house museums, historic sites and historical societies, as well as children’s museums, science centers and special-interest museums. Qualified applicants must have a nonprofit 501c3 tax designation.
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