Deadline: 20-Jul-22
The Florida Humanities’ Community Project Grants are now open for nonprofit organizations and public institutions across Florida to support public humanities programming.
This program strengthens vibrant communities and cultures, promotes civic engagement, sparks thoughtful community dialogue, and reflects on the human experience across the Sunshine State.
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 Project They Support:
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 & Duration Information
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.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Organizations: Applications will be accepted from Florida-based public agencies (including libraries, museums, schools, and tribal governments) and
- Florida-based nonprofit organizations constituted for nonprofit purposes. Universities and colleges are encouraged to apply through Greater Good: Humanities in Academia.
Eligible applicant organizations must:
- Be in good standing with Florida Humanities (i.e. if a prior grantee, have submitted a final report and not violated any terms of the award).
- Not have another Florida Humanities Community Project Grant open. Organizations must close out their current Community Project Grant prior to submitting another proposal.
An organization may have an open Community Project Grant simultaneous with other grants or programs offered by Florida Humanities, including but not limited to Greater Good: Humanities in Academia Grants, Broadcasting Hope Public Media Grants, Florida Talks, and English for Families, and Museum on Main Street. Grant funds may not overlap between funding opportunities, and maynot be stacked to support one project.
For more information, visit Community Project Grants.
For more information, visit https://floridahumanities.org/funding-opportunities/community-project-grants/
