The Mass Humanities is offering “Staffing Recovery” grants for organizations with COVID-19 recovery needs.
Donor Name: Mass Humanities
State: Massachusetts
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $14,000 – $40,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
Staffing Recovery grants will fund organizations to sustain current staff, provide cost of living increases to current staff, expand the hours of current staff, hire new staff, or bring back staff in order to:
- Sustain successful humanities programs for the next two years
- Create, bring back or grow humanities programs with new or expanded staff positions.
Funding Information
- Applicants should request grant amounts between $14,000 and $40,000
- Staffing Recovery Grants are a two-year funding opportunity for organizations with budgets of $500,000 or less and five or fewer full-time employees.
Uses of funds
Funds are to be used only for staffing expenses. This includes payroll and benefits expenses for staff only.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicant organizations must:
- Be a 501(c) (3) or fiscally-sponsored museum, historical society or community cultural organization with humanities programs, state or federally recognized tribe, with an annual operating budget up to $500,000 and with five or fewer Full-Time Equivalent Employees (FTE)
- Organizations that have received a single one-time capital (non-operations) grant within the past year that puts their annual budget over the $500,000 threshold are still eligible
- Organizations that employed seasonal employees that exceeded five employees for 120 days or less in 2022 are still eligible, as long as the organization had five or fewer employees for the remainder of the year and are within the operational budget threshold
- Be located in Massachusetts
- Be in compliance with state and federal regulations which bar discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, or sexual orientation, and which require accessibility for persons with disabilities.
For more information, visit Mass Humanities.
