For Immediate Release Media Contact: Cherie Hill, Communications Manager, chill@calhum.org
California Humanities is proud to announce ten new Humanities for All Project Grant awards totaling $175K to support ambitious and innovative public humanities programs across the state during the next two years. The new grantees represent a broad range of California-based nonprofit organizations and public agencies, including regional museums, community cultural organizations, public higher educational institutions, and local historical societies.
These projects will bring the humanities to bear on topics and issues of current importance to Californians, including the preservation of indigenous cultures, making local history more visible and accessible, raising awareness and appreciation of the work of California artists, thinkers, and writers, and exploring the legacy of social justice movements. All projects will promote intercultural and intergeneration understanding, and reach new and underserved audiences through engaging activities accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds.
The California Humanities' Project Grant program, a branch of our Humanities for All competitive grant program, offers funding (between $10k and $20k) awarded twice a year for larger public humanities projects of up to two years duration from the award date. Launched in 2017, the program has made over 100 awards to organizations across the state, totaling close to $2 million.
"We are thrilled to see how cultural organizations and public agencies are striving to meet the needs of their communities and to address pressing social issues with the tools the humanities give us," states President and CEO Julie Fry. "Many of these projects will reach audiences and communities that have limited opportunities to participate in public humanities programming."
The California Humanities’ Project Grant program is a branch of the Humanities for All grant line. The grants supply funding for large-scale local public humanities activities that take place over two years.
About California Humanities: California Humanities, a nonprofit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, promotes the humanities—focused on ideas, conversation and learning—as relevant, meaningful ways to understand the human condition and connect people to each other in order to help strengthen California. California Humanities has provided grants and programs across the state since 1975. To learn more, visit calhum.org, or like and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
