NC Humanities’ Community Engagement Grants provide up to $3,500 to cultural organizations to support the implementation of public humanities projects.
Donor Name: North Carolina Humanities
State: North Carolina
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/19/2023
Size of the Grant: up to $3,500
Details:
North Carolina Humanities has been a leading humanities funder in North Carolina since 1972. Their Community Engagement grant funding opportunity provides up to $3,500 to cultural organizations to support the implementation of public humanities projects. Projects are expected to connect the public to quality humanities scholarship through programs that respond to community interest, encourage dialogue, and stimulate audiences to think critically about a broad range of humanities topics.
NC Humanities expects all grant proposals to utilize a humanities discipline or practice to advance one or more of the following areas of their Mission and Vision:
- Deepen human connections by broadening perspectives
- Equip communities with empathy, understanding, and respect
- Inspire community and connect North Carolinians across difference
Eligibility Criteria
- Activities for which you are requesting funding must take place in North Carolina.
- Organization must be a 501(c)(3) non-profit humanities organization OR a tax-exempt government entity.
- Organization must be registered in the System for Award Management.
- Organization must not be presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, declared ineligible, or voluntarily excluded from receiving federal grants.
Project Eligibility
- Project activities must be deeply grounded, and within scope of, the humanities disciplines.
- Language (both modern and classical)
- Literature
- History
- Jurisprudence (law)
- Philosophy
- Archeology
- Comparative religion
- Ethics
- The history, criticism and theory of the arts
- Social sciences which have humanistic content and/or employ humanistic methods
- Please note: NC Humanities is not able to support activities which fall outside the scope of the humanities.
- Grantees will be required to provide matching investment toward the project expenses. Generally, applicants will be required to match their grant 2-1 in any combination of cash and in-kind investment.
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