Institute for Heritage Education

“Part I, Line 10. GRANTS PAID: Our small grants are for professional development workshops in cultural heritage for educators. We awarded 6 grants, $1,200 each, and received a refund of $1,000 for a nonperforming grant awarded in 2021, for a net of $6,200. Recipients: Arizona Site Stewards Program Foundation; Arkansas Archeological Survey; ASM Public Archaeology, California/Hawaii; Montana State University Northern; Julia Berg, a Maryland sole proprietor; and Alliance for Heritage Conservation, North Carolina. *The nonperforming grant that was refunded was awarded in 2021 to Exploring Joara Foundation, North Carolina. *All the recipients except Ms. Berg are tax-exempt organizations; Ms. Berg received a 1099 for the amount. *These workshops engaged 146 educators and approximately 1,500 of their students in the first half-year alone.”

“Part I, Line 16. OTHER EXPENSES: Insurance $1,118; Web fees $764; Bank, payment processor, and state filing fees $183; Conferences (3, booth fees, representative travel) $4,074; Fundraising (donor management fee, professional webinar) $408; Office supplies $27. TOTAL $6,574.”

“Part III, Line 28. PRIMARY PROGRAM: Implementing the award-winning heritage education program Project Archaeology (PA). IHE is the national 501c3 nonprofit member of a partnership that carries out the program, along with Southern Utah University (SUU, the operations center) and the PA Leadership Team (representing the national network of educators and others involved in the work of the program.) *The partnership was created by a major reorganization in 2022; PA is a 35 year old program that has trained and supported more than 20,000 teachers and currently reaches an estimated 402,100 students a year, mainly in upper elementary and middle school grades. PROGRAM SUBAREAS: SUBAREA 1. Project Archaeology workshops/institutes for educators, from which the educators take back to their students materials and methods for archaeological inquiry-based classroom learning that improves science, social studies, and citizenship education. *Our professional development work was interrupted in 2025 by the expiration and non-renewal of two federal cooperative agreements and the lack of funding for a third ,continuing federal agreement. *We were partners with Southern Utah University (SUU) in a week-long National Endowment for the Humanities-funded teacher institute on archaeology and oral history in Utah. However, the NEH grant was canceled near the planned date. But IHE and SUU together raised enough private funding in a very short window, that with several vital in-kind contributions to SUU, made the institute possible. In the end, we were able to hold a successful institute for 27 teachers representing 15 states in all. Approximately 300 of their students participated in this inquiry-based learning in the first half-year alone. IHE PROGRAM COST: $12,389. SUBAREA 2. Managing and producing PA curricula. Our board chair is the curriculum lead for the Project Archaeology partnership. She assisted with continuing work on three curricula in different stages of development, in-kind work valued at $8,000. NO PROGRAM COST. SUBAREA 3. Supporting the work of PA's national network of teachers, nonformal educators, archaeologists, and others by funding a network coordinator and participation in three national and regional conferences. In 2025, this work benefited 286 network members and approximately 3,000 individuals outside the network. IHE PROGRAM COST: $18,439. TOTAL COST for the primary program: $30,828.”