Deadline: 1-Oct-22
The West Virginia Humanities Council is seeking applications for the Minigrants Program.
Minigrants have supported projects including workshops by West Virginia authors at Daniels Elementary School in Raleigh County, permanent exhibits at the Entler Hotel museum in Shepherdstown, and a Wayne County quilt trail.
Funding Information
$1,500 maximum, support small projects, single events, lectures, small museum exhibits, brochures, consultation needs, and planning for more complex projects.
What they fund?
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Allowable expenses for humanities projects and programs include the following:
- Honoraria for scholars
- Project-specific (i.e. non-regular) staff salaries
- Travel costs including per diems, mileage and lodging
- Supplies and materials
- Publicity and printing costs
- Postage and telephone costs
- Equipment and facilities rental
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Eligible project types include, but are not limited to:
- Planning grants to bring in experts for project consultation
- Conferences, lectures, and symposia
- Educational school programs
- Brochures and booklets including printing and promotional costs
- Exhibit development and implementation
- Archival projects
- Archaeological projects
- Conference travel
- The planning, scripting, and production of audio or video materials, websites, or a newspaper series
- Publications
- Individual research
Eligibility Criteria
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Eligible Projects must:
- Be rooted in one or more of the humanities disciplines
- Involve qualified humanities scholars or expert practitioners in the project, as direct
- Be sponsored by a nonprofit organization
- Provide accurate budget requests, reflecting the actual costs of the project
- Secure dollar-per-dollar matching
- Provide a 25% cash match (for grant requests of more than $1,500)
- Provide a comprehensive and adequate plan for publicity and dissemination of information
- Be open to or accessible by public audiences
- Provide a plan to evaluate the effectiveness of the project
- Comply with federal nondiscrimination statutes
They cannot fund
- Projects with little or no humanities content
- Creative and performing arts (associated discussion sessions and educational programs may be eligible)
- Fund-raising events or for-profit projects
- Expenses incurred or paid out before a grant is made
- Projects/activities that have already taken place
- Projects with high admission fees (reasonable admission fees may be allowed and should be discussed with the grants administrator)
- Projects not open or accessible to the public
- Purchase of equipment or land
- Building renovation
- Receptions, food, alcohol or entertainment
- Fiscal agent fees (also ineligible as match)
- Academic courses for credit
- History Alive! presentations
- Requests that advocate partisan political or social action
- Historic Highway markers
- Regrants (including offering discounts/savings)
- Permanent staffing or regular staff salaries
For more information, visit West Virginia Humanities Council.
For more information, visit https://wvhumanities.org/grants/aboutourgrants/
