New Hampshire Humanities Community Project Major Grants provide grant funds to support public humanities programs across New Hampshire. The public humanities bring the insights and knowledge of humanities disciplines – history, literature, philosophy, ethics, archeology, anthropology, linguistics, geography, the law or legal theory, classics, and cultural or religious studies – to bear on public life.
Donor Name: New Hampshire Humanities
State: New Hampshire
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/15/2022
Size of the Grant: up to $10,000
Details:
Public humanities programs offer people the opportunity to interpret, question, and debate new ideas while learning about the world in which they live. Through such programs, the public humanities strengthen civic discourse and foster an informed citizenry, and, therefore, fundamentally support both our local communities and national democracy.
Major Grants: Major Grants of up to $10,000 are the heart of New Hampshire Humanities grant making, enabling all kinds of nonprofits and educational institutions to design and carry out multi-faceted projects.
Funding Information
Major Grants provide up to $10,000 in funds.
Eligibility Criteria
Award recipients included cultural and civic organizations, museums, colleges, libraries, historical societies, theaters, and other nonprofits around the state. Programs ranged from an exploration of the shifting relationships between Abenaki and European settlers in eighteenth-century New Hampshire to discussions focusing on ways the railroad’s construction impacted towns and communities across the country.
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