Do you have a project that tells stories of Hawaiʻi to their community? Are you working to preserve cultural material that remembers their history? Are you planning a humanities program that brings together Hawaiʻi communities to explore and share ideas? If Yes, then apply now for the Public Humanities Grants!
Donor Name: Hawai’i Council for the Humanities
State: Hawaii
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/31/2022
Size of the Grant: up to $10,000
Details:
Grants are available to create exciting and engaging public programs that bring communities together to explore the humanities and meaningful issues, and connect to each other.
They actively welcome exciting and engaging programs seeking to promote deep thinking, conversation, and connection on issues that impact communities in Hawaiʻi.
Values
- Ideas of the humanities are grounded in Hawaii’s people and places
- Kuleana to their communities’ histories and futures
- Courage to dive deeply into important questions and ideas
- Brave and safe space for diverse voices and experiences to actively share and listen
- Create connections that strengthen communities’ resilience and ability to change.
What kinds of projects and formats are eligible for a Public Humanities grant?
They encourage originality and imagination in your public program plans. Please note that while grant funds can be used as to help create a resource, a good portion of the grant should be used for public programs that broaden perspectives, enrich lives and strengthen communities.
Examples of activities and formats include:
- Organizing a panel and facilitated community discussion about challenging and relevant issues;
- Developing thought-provoking community engagement for exhibitions, publications, films, or performances
- Creating humanities guides or essays or other materials to complement a program and that provide access to expertise and deeper questions on the issue;
- Creating and launching media—film, podcasts, sound recordings, and online media;
- Designing a collaboration between humanities and science communities that helps to more deeply explore a challenging and relevant issue
- Community meetings, workshops, symposia, and similar gatherings for non-academic audiences;
- Creating an interpretive exhibit that helps us dive more deeply into historical and contemporary issues
- Developing a guided tour of a historic site
- Developing a historical theater performance
- Research in the humanities and presentation of results to the community;
- Preserving an important cultural resource in a way that increases public access to the materials (e.g. creating an online archive or a database).
Funding Information
- Up to $10,000.
Who may apply?
- Grant applications require a sponsoring nonprofit group or public institution based in Hawaii.
For more information, visit Public Humanities Grants.