Humanities Council Minigrants support projects that request $2,000 or less, including small projects, single events, lectures, small museum exhibits, brochures, consultation needs, and planning for more complex projects
Donor Name: West Virginia Humanities Council
State: West Virginia
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $2,000
Details:
Minigrants have supported projects including workshops by West Virginia authors at Daniels Elementary School in Raleigh County, permanent exhibits at the Entler Hotel museum in Shepherdstown, and a Wayne County quilt trail.
What WVHC funds
Allowable expenses for humanities projects and programs include the following:
- Honoraria for scholars
- Project-specific (i.e. non-regular) staff salaries
- Travel costs including per diems, mileage and lodging
- Supplies and materials
- Publicity and printing costs
- Postage and telephone costs
- Equipment and facilities rental
Eligible Projects
Eligible projects must:
- Be rooted in one or more of the humanities disciplines
- Involve qualified humanities scholars or expert practitioners in the project, as direct advisors
- Be sponsored by a nonprofit organization
- Provide accurate budget requests, reflecting the actual costs of the project
- Secure dollar-per-dollar matching funds
- Provide a 25% cash match (for grant requests of more than $2,000)
- Provide a comprehensive and adequate plan for publicity and dissemination of information
- Be open to or accessible by public audiencesre
- Provide a plan to evaluate the effectiveness of the project
- Comply with federal nondiscrimination statutes
Eligibility Criteria
- The West Virginia Humanities Council seeks proposals from nonprofit organizations that offer humanities-centered public programming for West Virginia audiences.
- For grants and programming purposes, the term “humanities” encompasses the study of language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; law and jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; art history; and some aspects of the social sciences
For more information, visit WVHC.
