The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced Creating Humanities Communities, a new grant that supports grassroots humanities programs by encouraging partnerships and collaborations between multiple institutions or organizations in a town, county, region, or area. NEH hopes that the relationships built and strengthened through Creating Humanities Communities will lead to increases and improvements in humanities infrastructure for years to come, even beyond the initial activities funded by these grants.
“All Americans, no matter where they live, should be able to benefit from the power of the humanities,” said NEH Chairman Adams. “Through this new grant program, the National Endowment for the Humanities will stimulate the humanities in communities that have received less support in the past. The Endowment is particularly reaching out to Native American groups and tribal governments with this new grant.”
Creating Humanities Communities grants are available only to states and territories designated as “incentive areas.” These are the twenty states and five territories that received the least funding through competitively awarded NEH grants in the previous fiscal year. This year’s incentive areas are:
Alabama Idaho Nebraska Oklahoma Utah
Alaska Iowa Nevada Rhode Island Vermont
Arkansas Kentucky New Mexico South Carolina West Virginia
Hawaii Montana North Dakota South Dakota Wyoming
American Samoa Guam Northern Marina Islands Puerto Rico U.S. Virgin Islands
The application deadline is February 15, 2017.