Deadline: 1-Sep-22
The West Virginia Humanities Council’s Publication Grant Program is now open for applications.
The goal of the West Virginia Humanities Council’s Publication grants is to increase the quality and quantity of books published on West Virginia topics in the humanities and by West Virginia authors on any subject in the humanities.
Funding Information
$20,000 maximum, are available to recognized nonprofit and academic presses, and support only the production phase of a completed nonfiction manuscript.
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
- Publication grants are available only to recognized nonprofit presses and academic presses, and support only the production phase of a completed nonfiction manuscript.
- These books may be text or photos or a combination of both. In the case of books of photography, the photographs must be documentary in character.
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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/
