The Indiana Humanities is offering Action Grants to provide tax-exempt organizations with funds to develop and implement responsive and meaningful humanities programming.
Donor Name: Indiana Humanities
State: Indiana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): Ongoing
Details:
Action Grants support projects that help people learn new information, consider different perspectives, share ideas and understand one another better. Programs may come in a variety of formats—workshops, presentations, reading/discussion programs, exhibitions, podcasts, film documentaries and more—as long as they’re open to the public and utilize the humanities as a tool for engagement.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for an Action Grant, you must apply on behalf of an Indiana-based tax-exempt organization.
- Schools, public libraries, churches, community organizations and government entities are eligible; 501(c)3 status is not required.
- Indiana Humanities will not award Action Grants to individuals or for-profit entities. Also, note that they will not award an organization more than one Action Grant per calendar year.
Requirement
Your proposal must meet the following requirements in order to be considered. The review committee will use these to evaluate, rate and rank your application. Your project must:
- Contain a strong focus on the humanities. When considering which humanities-related projects to fund, they use guidelines provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. According to the NEH, the humanities include activities in the following disciplines:
- Literature
- Comparative religion
- Language
- Law
- History
- Ethics
- Philosophy
- Theory, history and criticism of the performing and visual arts
- Archaeology
- Social sciences that have humanistic content and/or humanistic method
For more information, visit Indiana Humanities.