This panel will highlight ongoing work at Bowling Green State University, Kent State University, and the Lakeside Heritage Society to provide examples and encourage discussion of strategies for building upon grant‐funded digital projects. BGSU panelists will discuss how they have continued partnerships with the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo upon completion of their community scan day funded by an NEH Common Heritage grant. Kent State panelists will discuss the digitization of the Ohio Sanborn Fire Insurance map collection, funded by the Ohio Local History Alliance and the Ohio History Fund, which has led to increased and more innovative use of the collection by an expanded and more diverse user base. The panelist from Lakeside Heritage Society will discuss her experience as a new professional building upon a project to digitize and develop online finding aids for annual programs and bulletins chronicling each summer season at Lakeside Chautauqua since 1877 .