GRANT APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN
HumanitiesDC grants have been open for two weeks and we have been excited to engage with those who have already joined our grants overview sessions. Over the next month, we will have specific webinars for you to ask questions regarding the grant of your interest. Sign up here.
Additionally, applicant resources are listed with each grant. Continue to check out the FAQs on each grant page as we update them regularly. If you are not able to attend the webinar, feel free to watch the video presentation that will be posted soon. Lastly, be sure to sign up for office hours with staff here.
COMMUNITY CULTURE AND HERITAGE PROJECTS
This grant supports individuals, community groups and organizations interested in capturing and sharing the lifestyles, rituals, and traditions of DC communities through a public humanities project.
DC ORAL HISTORY COLLABORATIVE
The Collaborative is a program that combines funding, resources and training to help participants become oral historians. Through this grant learn how to tell the stories of those whose experiences have shaped our city.
DC ORAL HISTORY BEYOND THE ARCHIVES
Explore the existing oral histories of DC from the present or decades past. Re-imagine narratives of DC’s life, history, and culture out of libraries, archives, and personal collections, and bring them into public view with unique projects.
VISIONS – PROJECTS + EVENTS
Have a dream for a festival celebrating the legacy of go-go music? Want to organize a weekend seminar discussing literature from DC? Interested in making a documentary connecting our city to the larger world? Get started with the Visions grant.
YOUTH IN THE HUMANITIES
Work with young Washingtonians to explore the world around them through history, art appreciation, philosophy, literature, and more. This general operating funding is for humanities-based organizations who work with youth ages 11-19.
