Action Grants cover projects or initiatives that explore the digital humanities, apply new techniques in audience engagement, and build new and diverse audiences.
Donor Name: Illinois Humanities
State: Illinois
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/17/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Priority is given to projects that spark more risk-taking and experimental and engaging public humanities work on the part of Illinois nonprofits. Project budgets can cover project expenses as well as engagement activities. Projects must utilize the humanities. Media projects such as oral history, filmmaking, journalism, storytelling, and other disciplines are all a part of this field.
Funding Information
Up to $4,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Must be a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization in good standing or have a fiscal sponsor.
- Organizations or projects must be Illinois-based.
- The project must be rooted in the humanities.
- Priority given to organizations with an annual budget of $1 million or less.
- Cannot have an open Vision, Action, or General Operating grant.
Additional Funding
- Optional Accessibility Fund: An additional stipend of $150 for services such as American Sign Language interpretation or captioning to help make events more accessible to everyone.
- Optional Media Fund: An additional stipend of $100 for services such as documentation, photography, videography, etc.
Ineligibility
Illinois Humanities supports public humanities programs, initiatives, and organizations. They do not fund:
- Activities that promote a specific political position or ideology.
- Alcoholic beverages.
- Businesses, for-profits.
- Capital projects (i.e., renovation or purchase of buildings or land).
- Endowment contributions.
- Foreign travel.
- Lobbying.
- Major equipment purchases (though equipment to assist a specific program is admissible).
- Out-of-state programs that have no specific relevance or thematic connection to people in Illinois (though technically a grant recipient or fiscal agent can be located elsewhere in the U.S.).
- Programming that falls outside of the humanities.
- Social services (though a social services agency may apply for funding of a humanities project).
For more information, visit Illinois Humanities.
