The West Virginia Humanities Council is currently accepting applications for its Major Grants.
Donor Name: West Virginia Humanities Council
State: West Virginia
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/01/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Major Grants support major humanities projects including, but not limited to, lectures, school projects, symposiums, panel discussions, reading and discussion series, exhibits, reenactments, and conferences.
Major grants have funded humanities programming at the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, a permanent exhibit at the Weston State Hospital, archeology digs in Wood and Greenbrier counties, the Ohio River Festival of Books, and wayside exhibits at historic locations along the Kanawha Valley Rivers to Ridges Trail.
Funding Information
Applicants may request up to $20,000.
West Virginia Humanities Council 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 audiences
- 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.
