Wyoming Crossroads Grants serve to support the larger multi-year thematic initiative of Wyoming Humanities.
Donor Name: Wyoming Humanities
State: Wyoming
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/16/2023
Details:
The goal of Wyoming Humanities’ grants is to support public programs that use the humanities to explore the state’s histories, stories, issues, and connections between groups and communities.
Grants, nonprofit organizations will be encouraged to explore the idea of growth through change and create programming and project opportunities that dig deep into themes related to Wyoming’s identity, the sense of community, the connection to the land, unwavering persistence, and of course our ability to manage change.
Wyoming Crossroads is a state-wide public humanities initiative to apply humanities perspectives locally to help Wyoming realize growth out of change. General themes that can be explored through Wyoming Crossroads Grants are:
- Wyoming’s identity
- Wyoming’s sense of community
- Wyoming’s connection to the land
- Wyoming’s persistence, and
- Wyoming’s ability to manage change
Grant Categories
- Programming Grants will be awarded to public humanities programs and projects that include an event that is open to the public. Examples of programs and/or projects that would be supported by a Wyoming Crossroads Programming Grant include, but are not limited to: Discussions, Lectures, Reading/writing series, Exhibitions, Conference/symposiums, etc.
- Publication Grants will be awarded for the creation and public distribution of humanities focused written publications reflective of the themes and goals of the Wyoming Crossroads initiative. Examples of publications that would be supported by a Wyoming Crossroads Publication Grant include, but are not limited to: Print media (books/articles), Online print media (blogs/articles/websites), etc.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligibility is limited to not-for-profit organizations (as reported to the IRS and with an existing EIN), accredited public and 501(c)(3) institutions of higher education (as defined in 20 U.S.C. 1001), local governmental agencies, and federally recognized Native American tribal governments. Humanities-focused organizations, those that routinely conduct humanities programming, and non-humanities organizations wanting to conduct humanities programs are all eligible for Wyoming Crossroads. Not-for-profit organizations may apply with a fiscal sponsor.
- A humanities-focused organization has a mission explicitly connected to the humanities and a history of specifically working in the humanities. Some examples of eligible organizations include cultural and ethnic organizations, history organizations, humanities museums, humanities education organizations, literature organizations, media, journalism, and documentary organizations, libraries, and archives, etc.
For more information, visit Wyoming Humanities.
