The Wyoming Humanities is accepting applications for its Spark Grants.
Donor Name: Wyoming Humanities
State: Wyoming
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/02/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Funding Information
Spark Grants are for projects up to $2,000. Once in the fall and once in the spring, WYH offers a Crossroads Grant for projects in four broad categories: programming, digital media, preservation, and publication. Crossroads grant projects should explore five themes requests can be submitted up to $10,000.
Examples
- A storytelling circle at the Big Horn Folk Festival.
- A live play reading and discussion series by Relative Theatrics.
- A panel discussion with two Apsaalooke (Crow) tribal members and two Wyoming lawyers to discuss the Apsaalooke religious connection to Heart Mountain and how that relationship plays out today in legal and social justice work in Wyoming.
- Humanities scholars accompanying a regional tour of a dance interpretation of Ellis Island oral histories. The scholars gave lectures at high schools and facilitated post-performance discussions on immigration, both broadly and specific to Wyoming’s rich immigrant history.
Eligibility Requirements
All Wyoming Humanities grants have the same basic requirements:
- The project must be humanities centered. The humanities encompass the study of all the forms of human cultural expression: the history, arts, literature, philosophy, religion, laws, cultural studies, and languages. These break down further into subsets such as ecological humanities and gender studies. However, projects like arts performances that do not have a Q&A or talk-back session to delve into the meaning and context of the experience of art fall into the realm of Wyoming Arts Council funding.
- The program must be publicly accessible. Specifically, they will not fund research projects. If the project isn’t about directly engaging a public audience (through outreach components like lectures, documentaries, digital medias, curated exhibits, moderated film series, etc.) then it is probably not a fit for Wyoming Humanities funding. For the same reason, Wyoming Humanities strongly prefers to support public events that do not charge admission.
- The applying organization must be a state or federally recognized nonprofit state agency. This includes libraries, schools, 2-year and 4-year colleges, tribal nations, and museums. Eligible organizations have a valid tax EIN and UEI number to receive funds to receive the grant and manage the funds. They can only fund registered non-profits; WYH does consider applications that use a fiscal sponsor.
- The project must have a humanities professional in a central role. The humanities professional’s expertise should be appropriate for the project and they should inform the content and/or presentation of the project.
- All Wyoming Humanities grant funds must be matched 1:1 with non-Federal dollars. This match can be both in cash and in-kind; it is often referred to as cost share. Federal dollars can be used to support the project but cannot be accepted as cost share.
For more information, visit Wyoming Humanities.
