Oregon Humanities is seeking applications for the Mini Grants for Rural Libraries.
Donor Name: Oregon Humanities
State: Oregon
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/15/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Events should reflect the 2025 theme: The People and The Public. Grantees are welcome to interpret this theme and develop topics that are relevant to their communities. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, explorations of:
- Who are the people, and what is the public?
- When talk about public opinion or public service, whose opinions are including, and who is being served?
- Does public ownership of land mean that land should be equally accessible to everyone?
- What are the dividing lines between public and private life?
Funding Information
Oregon Humanities will award a total of up to $50,000 in Mini Grants for Rural Libraries for 2025. The maximum award per organization is $5,000. This could fund one event or multiple events. In 2025, Oregon Humanities will award up to $50,000 in funding to enable rural and rural-serving Oregon libraries to create and host events in their own communities.
Types of Events
Some activities that are commonly funded by this grant include:
- Community dialogues
- Speaker events that include audience engagement
- Interactive author presentations
- Storytelling
- Programming that connects exhibits to current experiences
- Community-engaged interpretation of history, art history and theory, cultural history, or philosophy
This grant can support program-related expenses that may include the following:
- Honoraria for conversation facilitators, featured speakers, and conversation participants (excluding audience members)
- Program/event planning costs, including project planning and management salaries
- Event space rental costs
- Supplies and materials
- Labor and technical support for online events
- Cleaning supplies and services
- Event advertising
- Documenting the program through production of video, audio, digital/print publication
- Printing and duplication
- Costs to purchase associated publications that support your event, will be distributed to event attendees at no cost, or gifted for attendees to take home with them.
- Snacks, non-alcoholic drinks for consumption during the event
- Costs to provide onsite childcare during the event
- ADA access. For example: live captioning (Note: capital expenditures and equipment purchases are not allowed)
- Language translation during the event, including ASL translation
Eligibility Requirements for Applicants
- Public, tribal, community college, or volunteer libraries or library branches located in (or adjacent to and serving) rural or frontier zip codes in Oregon are eligible.
For more information, visit Oregon Humanities.
