Florida Humanities’ Community Project Grants are awarded to nonprofit cultural organizations across Florida to support public humanities programming that strengthens vibrant communities and cultures, promotes civic engagement, sparks thoughtful community dialogue, and reflects on the human experience across the Sunshine State.
Donor Name: Florida Humanities
State: Florida
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/14/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
Florida Humanities’ Community Project Grants awards up to $10,000 to support humanities-based learning experiences. In public humanities programming funded through this grant, Floridians are encouraged to engage in thoughtful reflection, analysis, and consideration of important topics relevant to local communities, and the state writ large.
This funding opportunity aims to increase public participation in — and access to — the humanities by providing relevant, engaging, and meaningful humanities-based programming to all. At its core, Community Project Grants embody their mission to preserve, promote and share the history, literature, culture and personal stories that offer Floridians a better understanding of themselves, their communities and their state.
Types of Projects
Community Project Grants support an array of public humanities programming that encourage community engagement in and with the humanities. Programming should be tailored to, and appropriate for, the subject matter, the applicant’s goals, as well as reflective of the interests and needs of the intended audience(s), particularly underserved communities.
Florida Humanities encourages innovation with new approaches as well as use of time-tested formats such as: community conversations, interpretive exhibits (permanent or traveling, physical or digital), lectures and podcasts, community-wide reads, or reading- or film-and-discussion programs, book, film, and cultural festivals incorporating humanities activities, oral history projects, story-collection and sharing programs, interpretive tours or other types of site- or place-based humanities programming.
All Community Project Grants MUST:
- Be rooted in the humanities
- Involve humanities scholar(s) appropriate for the project
- Be made available to the general public and actively foster constructive dialogue
- Be free, or not cost prohibitive.
Funding Information
- Funding Amount: Up to $10,000
- Contract Period: August 1, 2023 – August 1, 2024
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants may request up to $10,000. Florida Humanities funds may be used to support eligible project-related activities and expenses within the one-year grant period.
- Special consideration may be given to:
- Organizations with budgets less than $1 million
- Applications requesting $5,000 or less in funding
- Applications will be accepted from Florida-based nonprofits and public agencies (including libraries, museums, schools, and tribal governments) and Florida-based nonprofit organizations constituted for nonprofit purposes. Individuals, for-profit organizations and foreign governments/organizations are not eligible for funding.
- Individuals, for-profit organizations and foreign governments/organizations are not eligible for funding.
For more information, visit Florida Humanities.