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Have a great idea? Apply for a Community Project Grant

How can your organization use humanities ideas, skills, and experts to help NH people think about the issues that matter in their lives, their communities, their world? Community Project Grants offer direct support from the New Hampshire Humanities Council for creative public humanities programs in your community. Think history, literature, philosophy! Archaeology, ethics, culture! Languages! Comparative religion! The history and interpretation of the arts, the sciences, of just about anything!

There are three project grant categories for 2013: Quick, Quarterly and Major. All involve a project director, a humanities expert, and a tax exempt NH organization as grant applicant. All provide live programming to a NH public audience. All are awarded on a competitive basis and require matching contributions from the applicant or others, cash and in-kind.

Some of the funds for Community Project Grants come from special sources that designate use in certain ways. For example, projects in Exeter and Rockingham County may be funded with monies from the Merrill Fund and teacher workshops may be funded with monies from the Dorothy Osborne Fund for Education. Applicants whose projects fall in these categories follow the same guidelines and use the same forms as other applicants.

• Quick Grants offer up to $1,000 to support simple, single-event or short-series projects, and are available in as little as six weeks from submission deadline to first public event.
  
  
• Quarterly Grants of up to $5,000 are awarded four times a year. They are the heart of the Humanities Council's grantmaking, enabling all kinds of tax-exempt organizations to design and carry out multi-faceted projects.
  
  
• Major Grants of up to $10,000 are awarded twice a year. Whether acting as seed money to attract other funders or paying for the bulk of a project's cash expenditures, these grants have major impact by helping with critical aspects of project planning, research, and public presentation.

2013 GRANT TIMELINES

Quick Grants Up to $1,000

Quarterly Grants Up to $5,000

Major Grants Up to $10,000

GRANT GUIDELINES AND FORMS

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Useful information before you apply for a grant:

Applying for a grant - templates to save and use:

Questions? Contact NHHC Grants Officer Susan Hatem at shatem@nhhc.org or 603-224-4071.

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