Deadline: 10-Sep-21
The Colorado Humanities is offering Colorado Sustaining Humanities American Rescue Plan (COSHARP) grants to provide general operating support to organizations to recover from the economic hardship due to the cancellation of or changes to their public humanities activities as a result of Covid.
Covid has had a lasting impact on the public humanities field across the state, and Colorado Humanities will award funds from the federal American Rescue Plan Act, through the National Endowment for the Humanities, to meet the needs of organizations doing public humanities work in Colorado. They encourage applications from organizations in rural areas and those serving historically underserved communities.
Organizations may use grant funds for any operating costs resulting from Covid to support their capacity for continued implementation of public humanities activities.
Funding Information
- Applicants may request up to $20,000. Any organization of any size may request up to the maximum grant amount. However, all grant funds must be spent on qualified expenses by the end of the grant period, June 30, 2022.
- The fund will provide at least $760,000 to support Colorado-based public humanities and cultural organizations.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications will be accepted from Colorado-based nonprofit agencies and organizations with a minimum four-year organizational history whose work in the public humanities in Colorado has been impacted by Covid. Applicants must demonstrate this need through either economic hardship due to loss of income as a result of loss of programming opportunities and/or revenue sources, or unanticipated expenses incurred due to cancelled or modified programming or project activities (e.g., adapting in-person programming to online).
- Current Colorado Humanities partners MAY apply, as long as the activities supported by COSHARP grants do not directly overlap with expenses already supported through contracts or agreements with Colorado Humanities. Colorado Humanities Grant Review Committee members who also serve on the staff or Board of an applicant organization may not review the application, and they may not be compensated from COSHARP grant funds for any goods or services they provide.
- To accomplish the mission of Colorado Humanities, they will consider as part of the decision-making process geographic and cultural diversity, increasing equity and inclusion, and reaching communities that currently or historically have been underserved with humanities programming.
For more information, visit https://coloradohumanities.org/programs/sustaining-the-humanities-through-the-american-rescue-plan/
