NC Humanities’ Project Planning Grants provide up to $2,000 to support the incubation or development of a public humanities project.
Donor Name: North Carolina Humanities
State: North Carolina
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/30/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Project Planning Grants support preparations for upcoming projects including research activities, planning meetings, data collection & more.
Eligible Project Activities
- Community conversation series in which diverse residents creatively address community challenges, guided by the perspectives of the humanities
- Producing humanities-based traditional or digital media (film, podcast, sound recordings, websites, online media, etc.)
- Creating guides or materials to complement a program that provides access to humanities content (including curricular materials for use by K-12 educators)
- Developing thought-provoking community activities to extend the content reach of exhibitions, publications, films, or performances and deepen an audience’s understanding of a subject. For example, a museum exhibition might be accompanied by a website, mobile app, or discussion programs.
- Oral history collection and interpretation
- Interpretation of historic sites, houses, neighborhoods, and regions, which might include living history presentations, guided tours, exhibitions, and public programs
- Facilitated community discussion using the humanities to explore challenging and/or relevant issues
- Humanities-based discussions following performance activities
- Exhibitions
- Digital humanities activities
- Panel/lecture/conference/symposia on humanities subject matter
- Reading and discussion programs
- Workshops for educators
- Walking tours.
Eligible Grant Expenses
- Development and production of curriculum guides and other materials for teachers and students
- Development and production of program materials including discussion guides, catalogs, exhibition text, brochures, digital assets, publications, or other interpretive and interactive material
- Evaluation of the project’s impact Exhibition design and fabrication, as well as crating and shipping
- Honoraria/stipends for lectures, panels, or workshop facilitation not exceeding $500 per individual, per activity
- For example: If a humanities expert gives two lectures during the course of a project, they can be paid a maximum of $500 in grant funds for each component, for a total of $1000.
- Humanities consultations/contractors for non-event/presentation-based work not exceeding $50 per hour
- For example: If a humanities expert is contributing 10 hours of work to design curriculum for a project, they could be paid a maximum of $500.00 in grant funds for those hours.
- Indirect costs at either federal de minimis (10%) or at the appropriate Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA) rate
- Limited humanistic research Meals for presenters or participants in full-day workshops
- Meetings with content advisors, program partners, and audience stakeholders
- Project-specific training for docents, discussion coordinators, or other interpretive leaders
- Project-specific publicity
- Travel to archives, collections, sites, or other resources
- Travel and lodging for humanities experts to give presentations or provide project services
- Venue rentals for public events.
Eligible Applicants
Organizations typically eligible are:
- Ad hoc groups created for the sole purpose of carrying out a project
- Archives
- Arts councils
- City and county governments
- Civic clubs
- Community cultural heritage organizations
- Historic sites
- Cultural centers
- Colleges/universities projects must demonstrate a commitment to reach an audience beyond the campus community. To be competitive, applications/LOIs should show strong community collaboration, partnerships, and a well-defined outreach/publicity plan
- Historic preservation organizations
- Historical societies
- K-12 schools
- Literature organizations
- Media/film organizations
- Museums
- Public agency/department
- Public libraries
- Religious institutions activities must not proselytize or restrict activities to members of a specific religious group
- Tribal organizations.
For more information, visit NCH.
