Deadline: 19-Jan-22
The Florida Humanities is seeking applications for the Community Project Grants Program to increase public participation in and access to the humanities by providing relevant, engaging, and meaningful humanities-based programming to all.
Beginning in 2022, Florida Humanities’ Community Project Grants will double, awarding up to $10,000 to support humanities-based learning experiences! 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.
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.
Florida Humanities’ Community Project Grants are awarded to nonprofit organizations and public institutions across Florida to support public humanities programming that strengthens vibrant communities and cultures, promotes civic engagement, sparks thoughtful community dialogue, and reflects on the human experience across the Sunshine State. These grants are designed to support a vast array of bold and innovative projects that are meaningful to local communities – from oral history projects with subsequent panel discussions to digital or onsite interpretive exhibits and timely community conversations.
Priorities
Community Project Grants, at their core, meet the needs of local communities. While remaining open to funding locally-driven public humanities projects, Florida Humanities may give special consideration to applications that focus on one or more of their five programmatic priorities.
- Racial Injustice: Sharing stories and perspectives highlighting historical and modern race-based inequities and injustices that disadvantage (d) communities of color, employing the humanities to bring communities together in constructive dialogue.
- Civics and Democracy: Current issues in American democracy and civics including but not limited to voting, suffrage, the power of protest, voting rights, voter suppression, contested elections, and ideological polarization.
- Water: Water as an essential component of life on their planet (environmentally, culturally, and historically), using the humanities to examine a community’s relationship with water as it relates to their cultural history.
- Public Health: The impact of public health issues on the sustainability of Florida’s communities within a diverse, globalizing world, exploring the continuity and change of cultural heritage in relation to public health crises, including global pandemics. Explorations may include the disparities in health access and service for various groups within the community, such as economic resources, sex, and race/ethnicity.
- Immigrant and Refugee Stories: Programs that share refugees’ and immigrants’ personal accounts and perspectives, using the humanities to compassionately reflect upon community challenges and triumphs in the increasingly diverse and changing Florida landscape.
Funding Information
- Funding Amount: Up to $10,000
- Cost Share: All cost shares for the project must be recorded, but at least 1:1 cost share is required.
- Contract Period: 1 year
Types of Projects 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.
Eligibility Criteria
- 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.
- 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.
- Individuals, for-profit organizations and foreign governments/organizations are not eligible for funding.
- Eligible applicant organizations must note:
- A DUNS and Federal-ID number are required to apply.
- Upon award, register or obtain registration on SAM.gov in order to receive grant funding. Registering in SAM.gov is free, and to seek help is free.
- 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.
Ineligible
- Individuals and for-profit organizations are ineligible for Community Project Grants.
For more information, visit https://floridahumanities.org/funding-opportunities/community-project-grants/