Deadline: 12-Jan-22
The South Carolina (SC) Humanities is seeking applications for its Major Grants Program to support public programs designed to be accessible by a broad audience, to serve citizens in urban, rural, and small-town settings, and to make possible humanities programs that illuminate and enrich the lives of both audiences and scholars.
Funding Information
- Grant awards are in sums between $2,000 and $10,000.
What SC Humanities Grants Do Not Fund?
- SC Humanities does not award grants to individuals. Your application must have a nonprofit sponsoring organization.
- SC Humanities does not award grants to fiscal agents. Applicants must not function solely as fiscal agents or fiscal sponsors but should make substantive contributions to the success of the project.
- Creative or performing arts displays or performances. They do fund the theory and criticism of the arts. Your program should be designed to generate dialogue between humanities scholars and the audience and not for the presentation of the art form itself.
- Creative writing, autobiographies, memoirs, and creative nonfiction. The National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts consider creative writing to be an arts discipline.
- Programs that promote a particular ideology, political, social, or religious viewpoint or advocacy of a particular program of social or political action.
- Programs intended for only college students or college faculty. Your program must engage non-academic participants.
- Programs that carry a high ticket or registration fee.
- Courses, scholarships, awards, fellowships or individual research.
- Publications, scholarly, writing or editing projects.
- Capital projects. These include the purchase of land, buildings, restorations, constructions, or museum / library acquisitions. Charges may be made to a grant project for equipment purchases (such as modest expenditures related to SC Humanities funded exhibits) if the applicant can demonstrate that the purchase amount of permanent equipment is less expensive than rental charges.
- Food, alcoholic beverages or entertainment for audiences.
- Expenses incurred or paid for before the SC Humanities grant is awarded or the beginning of the grant period.
- Competitive regranting
- Lobbying
- Funds for activities supported by other non-NEH federal funds or overlapping project costs with any other pending or approved application(s) for federal funding and/or approved federal awards.
- Indirect costs or cancellation costs
Eligibility Criteria
- Any nonprofit organization or institution may apply for SC Humanities grants for projects and programs of interest to South Carolinians.
- Applicants must have an EIN number and a DUNS number.
- The humanities must be central, not tangential, to the project. Funds awarded by SC Humanities are federal in origin and are subject to the federal criteria that governs administrative requirements, allowable costs, and audit requirements.
- SC Humanities will provide information about OMB requirements to grantees.
For more information, visit https://schumanities.org/grants/howtoapply/#majorgrants