Application are now open for 2024 Nevada Humanities Project Grants.
Donor Name: Nevada Humanities
State: Nevada
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline:
- Nevada Humanities Major Project Grants: 09/01/2023
- Nevada Humanities Mini-Grants: 30/07/2024
- Nevada Humanities Planning Grants: 30/07/2024
Size of the Grant:
- Nevada Humanities Major Project Grants: Up to $7,500
- Nevada Humanities Mini-Grants: Up to $2,000
- Nevada Humanities Planning Grants: Up to $1,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The mission of Nevada Humanities is to connect and transform communities by sharing and amplifying the stories, ideas, experiences, and traditions of the diverse people of Nevada.
In support of its mission, Nevada Humanities creates and supports public programs statewide that articulate the Nevada experience and facilitate the exploration of issues that matter to Nevadans and their communities. These programs help perpetuate and disseminate local culture and heritage, improve quality of life, enhance education, and enrich life and thought. In addition, Nevada Humanities contributes to the economic health of Nevada by producing and promoting activities that stimulate heritage tourism and attract new business to the state, aid in fostering a creative and well-educated population, and support a diverse and important nonprofit cultural industry throughout the state. Nevada Humanities is one of 56 independent, nonprofit state and territorial humanities councils that partner with the National Endowment for the Humanities.
What Nevada Humanities Project Grants May Support
Nevada Humanities project grants (Major Project Grants, Mini-Grants, Planning Grants) support innovative humanities projects created primarily for Nevada audiences, or designed to enhance national or international understanding of Nevada issues, culture, and heritage. They especially encourage projects that will engage diverse audiences and participants.
Humanities projects are dynamic and may take many forms, including media programs and documentaries, exhibitions, forums and discussions, public dialogue and conversation, workshops, research projects with public components, publications, educational initiatives and programs, and digital productions. Whatever their form, such projects draw upon the humanities, address important issues, and enrich the state’s cultural life. They may explore topics as diverse as Nevada state and local history, traditional culture, civic engagement, oral history and community stories, jurisprudence, social justice, bridging cultures, Nevada’s landscape and built environment, sense of place, and contemporary issues of concern to Nevadans.
Humanities projects are often produced by humanities organizations. A humanities organization has a mission explicitly connected to the humanities along with a track record of specifically working in the humanities, as opposed to a group that occasionally tackles or delves into humanities-based themes or activities. Humanities organizations include, but are not limited to, historical societies and heritage groups, historic homes and sites, archives, oral history programs, folklife organizations, cultural centers, museums, nonprofit libraries, literary, organizations, nonprofit educational organizations, historic preservation groups, nonprofit media groups that report on culture, other cultural nonprofits with core missions or activities that center on developing and implementing public humanities programming.
Nevada Humanities also strongly encourages partnerships that use the humanities to include diverse groups of people and bridge different fields of inquiry such as the presence of the humanities in the sciences, agriculture, rural development, health, medicine, and in service of veterans and active military service members as well as underserved populations and underserved regions of Nevada. Nevada Humanities will consider applications for funding from organizations in other fields or endeavors that also have the humanities as central to the project proposed for funding.
Funding Information
- Nevada Humanities Major Project Grants
- Funding Level: Up to $7,500
- Period of Performance: November 1, 2023 – October 31, 2024
- Nevada Humanities Mini-Grants
- Funding Level: Up to $2,000
- Period of Performance: Flexible; projects must take place between November 1, 2023 – October 31, 2024, and be completed by October 31, 2024; period of performance is subject to award date and completion of project.
- Nevada Humanities Planning Grants
- Funding Level: Up to $1,000
- Period of Performance: Flexible; projects must take place between November 1, 2023 – October 31, 2024, and be completed by October 31, 2024; period of performance is subject to award date and completion of project.
Eligibility Criteria
- Service as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and government entities such as local and tribal governments, museums, libraries, educational institutions, and other nonprofit or governmental humanities organizations. Grant awards will not be made to individuals. Applicants and their projects must either be located within the geographic boundary of the State of Nevada or engage in activities that are about or directly serve Nevadans.
- All applicants must provide an active and valid federal Employer Identification Number (EIN) and an active and current SAM Unique Entity ID number when submitting their applications. They no longer accept organization DUNS numbers with applications.
For more information, visit Nevada Humanities.
