Capacity Grants support consultant-led projects up to $9,999 to help Connecticut organizations strengthen their internal operations and ability to bring the humanities to the public.
Donor Name: Connecticut Humanities
State: Connecticut
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/07/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,500 – $9,999
Grant Duration: 12 Months
Details:
Connecticut Humanities Fund (CTHF) Capacity Building Grants support Connecticut organizations that bring the humanities to the public. Grants are awarded to help organizations better understand their audiences, assets, and operations. Funded projects may include:
- Board assessments and training
- Strategic planning
- Marketing assessments and planning
- Audience assessments
- Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) assessments, planning, and training
- Financial assessments and planning
- Development (fundraising) assessments and planning
- Collections assessments and planning
- Interpretive assessments and planning
- Technology assessments and planning
- Organizations may have only one (1) Capacity Grant open at a time.
Funding Priority
Priority for Capacity Grant funding is given to organizations that highlight the ways that they currently present and interpret the humanities to the public and articulate how their project will strengthen and improve their ability to do so moving forward.
Funding Information
Awards may not exceed $9,999. All Capacity Building Grant project periods are twelve (12) months in duration, beginning on the first day of the month of award date notification.
Eligibility Criteria
An applicant organization must:
- Be incorporated in the state of Connecticut for at least one year as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization governed by a board of directors that meets regularly OR be a city or municipality in the state of Connecticut OR be a Connecticut-based federally or State recognized tribe.
- Provide significant programming and/or services to the public on a regular basis, including open hours and special events, or function as a professional service organization that supports humanities program providers.
- Be in compliance on all terms and conditions of all previous Connecticut Humanities grants.
For more information, visit Connecticut Humanities.
