Virtual Outreach Project

FAIN: GA-276462-20

York County Heritage Trust (York, PA 17403-2013)
Terri Altland (Project Director: May 2020 to April 2025)

Retention of staff working on digital content.

We seek to navigate the challenging circumstances created by COVID-19 without comprising our community offerings. A favorable grant award will lead to the availability of history programs across York County—home to 449,058 individuals (U.S. Census, 2019)—and provide meaningful employment in the field. More specifically, an NEH CARES grant will mobilize our virtual outreach project. This project will make humanities programs accessible through the following objectives. 1. Moving previously scheduled programs to a virtual format 2. Creating new online resources 3. Making our collection, library and archives more accessible through digitization and online engagement Virtual programming will make our organization nimble as we respond to future orders to close or limit audience sizes, as well as help reach those vulnerable members of our YCHC family who must remain at home until a vaccine becomes available; at least 53% of our members are age 65 or older.