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The Humanities Council awards two types of grants on a competitive basis to qualified applicants.
To facilitate the process, we encourage interested individuals and organizations to request our participation in developing program
concepts and proposals. For more information, contact Grants Officer Rick Agran at 224-4071 x14.
If you are a member of a not-for-profit organization, please contact us with your ideas for a
public program in the humanities. The most important condition of project eligibility is that one or more of the disciplines of the
humanities be central to your project. We also require that the project be designed to encourage free inquiry and discussion among
New Hampshire residents. All Council-funded programs should be free and open to the general public.
The following outline describes the grant categories.
Download the guidelines and application
Download the grant budget guidelines in Excel
Each month the Council considers applications for up to $2,500 to support small projects.
Examples:
- Pre-performance lectures on music and drama
- Community oral history projects
- "Living History" presentations
- A series of workshops exploring ethnicity, diversity, and world cultures
- New reading discussion series focusing on various humanities topics
Mini-grant applications are due the first of each month (no applications are accepted in July). Applications must be submitted at least 8 weeks priort to the start of your program.
Download the guidelines and application
Download the grant budget guidelines in Excel
The Council awards grants of over $2,500 to support major projects and programs of particular humanities value and impact.
Examples:
- Portable exhibits and lecture series
- Film viewing and discussion series
- Scripts development for documentary films
- Residential institutes for teachers on humanities topics
- Lecture series on topical issues such as medical ethics and the environment
- Conferences, workshops, seminars for public audiences
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Grants for Professional Development for Teachers
The New Hampshire Humanities Council supports excellence in the teaching of the humanities in New Hampshire's schools, K-12. One way in which we advance this goal is to fund professional development projects – residential summer institutes, in-service workshops, job-embedded professional development, or other formats. Learn more...
The Humanities Council requests proposals for public humanities programs and professional development opportunities for teachers relating to the Lincoln Bicentennial in 2009.
Public programs and teacher education should be led by humanities scholars with advanced degrees in humanities disciplines and teaching experience. All programs should be designed to invigorate citizens’ knowledge of American history and culture using Lincoln and the humanities as their focal lenses. Programs should be designed to allow scholars, teachers, and/or the general public to work together interactively, sharing common inquiry, learning, and reflection. We encourage applicants to take risks in exploring the tensions between our affection for and repulsion by historical events during this critical period in American history.
Some possible points of inquiry:
- Lincoln’s leadership as a war-time president
- The power of media images in the first photographed political campaign
- Public impacts of the first photographed war
- The Emancipation Proclamation: its impetus and its legacy
- The language of Lincoln: his speeches, writings, and their lasting influence
- Lincoln’s relationship to New Hampshire, which could include his visit to the state and its connection to Lincoln’s political career; New Hampshire residents connected to Lincoln, such as John P. Hale, John Hay, Sarah Josepha Hale; New Hampshire in the time of Lincoln’s visit; Exeter and the founding of the Republican Party
- Lincoln and education, including the establishment of land-grant universities,
including UNH
- The role of religion in Lincoln’s White House
- Analysis of multiracial identities; One Drop of Blood and anti-miscegenation laws
- The birth of the vote for blacks and women: conflicts and common ground
- Daniel Webster, Lincoln, the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act
- Lincoln’s policy for unionizing workers and ideas about immigration
- Lincoln’s funding of the Civil War
- Lincoln-related reading discussion series (Lincoln’s writings, new biographies, Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, etc.)
Public programs should be open to the general public or to under-served audiences free of charge and may be geared toward adults or to families with older children.
Primarily we accomplish humanities education for children by providing professional development for their teachers. Professional development proposals should include a master teacher or curriculum development specialist to assist teachers in translating seminar content into classroom application. Proposals must include a post-institute evaluation of the project to assess initial impacts and projected long-term outcomes.
Proposals for grants of $2,500 and under are due the first every month (except July) and from $2,501 to approximately $10,000 are due quarterly on the first of January, April, July, and October, 2009. Please read complete grant applications and supporting information above and then contact Grants Officer Rick Agran at 603-224-4071 x14 .
is our speakers bureau which features 177 humanities programs available to organizations of all kinds in New Hampshire. Learn more on the Humanities to Go page or contact our office at 224-4071 for a copy of our print catalog.
is our book discussion series available to New Hampshire libraries. The Humanities Council provides a trained scholar and books are available to borrow from the NH State Library's Bookbag. Learn more on the What is New Hampshire Reading page.
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