Deadline: 17-Mar-25
Applications are now open for the Illinois Humanities Project Action Grants.
Nonprofit organizations pursuing innovative programming in the digital humanities, for audience engagement, or audience growth and diversification are candidates for this project-based grant. From oral history projects to filmmaking, these initiatives inspire risk-taking in the public humanities, paving the way for others to follow. Partnering with organizations in this work helps everyone to learn how to grow audiences for the humanities in new and engaging ways.
Funding Information
- Amount: Up to $4,000
- Additional Funding
- Optional Accessibility Fund: An additional stipend of $150 for services such as American Sign Language interpretation or captioning to help make events more accessible to everyone.
- Optional Media Fund: An additional stipend of $100 for services such as documentation, photography, videography, etc.
Eligible Project
- Priority is given to projects that spark more risk-taking and experimental and engaging public humanities work on the part of Illinois nonprofits.
- Project budgets can cover project expenses as well as engagement activities.
- Projects must utilize the humanities.
- Media projects such as oral history, filmmaking, journalism, storytelling, and other disciplines are all a part of this field.
Eligibility Criteria
- Must be a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization in good standing (learn what “good standing” means here) or have a fiscal sponsor
- Organizations or projects must be Illinois-based
- The project must be rooted in the humanities
- Priority given to organizations with an annual budget of $1 million or less
- Can not have an open Vision, Action, or General Operating grant
- Be up-do-date on reporting for any previous grants from Illinois Humanities
For more information, visit Illinois Humanities.