Deadline: 1-Sep-21
The Illinois Humanities is pleased to launch the Micro-Grants Program to inspire and help enable those who have local collections of various kinds (archives, texts, photos, stories, etc) to explore creative ways for community members to become more engaged with them.
Illinois Humanities has designed this micro-grants program to be accessible with a quick turnaround, in response to the dearth of available funds for individuals and smaller entities to host discussions on history and related matters.
Illinois Humanities sees this work as encouraging individual curiosity and connections to local history; as celebrating the efforts of amateur and other local historians; and as an avenue for growing the outreach efforts of local collections– all of which helps bolster community identity.
Funding Information
- The Activate History micro-grants are for $500 each.
- Applicants can request $250 in additional support to help make their events more accessible to audience participants, particularly those with physical disabilities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any nonprofit, church, school, government entity, library, museum and/or individual can apply.
- Either the applicant, the theme to be explored, or the audience addressed should be focused on Illinois.
- Special consideration is given to organizations with annual budgets of less than $400,000.
- For-profit businesses may not apply.
For more information, visit https://www.ilhumanities.org/program/micro-grants/