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Humanities Collaboration Grant

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Note: This funding opportunity is no longer currently accepting applications. See below for resources to manage your grant award.

Humanities Collaboration Grants offer support for public humanities projects that encourage contemplation, spark conversation and engage the community through collaboration with another nonprofit organization, institution of higher education or school. Eligible projects will use the humanities as the central resource to involve and benefit diverse groups of Iowans through educational programming that explore the human experience.

Funding for the Humanities Collaboration Grant is made possible by an appropriation from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency.

  • Who: Iowa Nonprofits, Local Governments and Higher Education Institutions
  • What: $2,500 - $30,000
  • When: December 1, 2022 for the funding period of November 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023

How to Apply

  1. Read the guidelines.
  2. Watch the informational webinar.
  3. Submit the application.

Manage Your Grant

Grantee Handbook

See the Grantee Handbook to learn how to manage your grant, including contract compliance and publicity.

Final Report

As a grant recipient, you must complete a final report form at the end of the process and share the impact of the project on the humanities in Iowa.

Grant Awards History

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Project Title Applicant City County Fiscal year Grant Amount
Magazine and Speaker Series Museum of Danish America Elk Horn Shelby 2022 $20,000.00
DMMO's 50th Anniversary Season Staging Connections Series Des Moines Metro Opera Indianola Warren 2022 $20,000.00
Oracles Workshop-Conversations Public Space One Iowa City Johnson 2022 $8,500.00
Antelope Lending Library Summer Reading Program Antelope Lending Library Iowa City Johnson 2022 $7,776.00
Exhibition on Influence of Japanese Culture in Midwest, 1890s-1930s Muscatine Art Center Muscatine Muscatine 2022 $4,200.00
Re-awakening History by Recording Our Own Stories Hometown Heritage Perry Dallas 2022 $16,500.00
Fine Arts & Humanities Series Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center Sioux City Woodbury 2022 $10,000.00
Emancipation Day, a Juneteenth Event Living History Farms Urbandale Polk 2022 $9,075.00
"Nice" Iowans who minimize differences need support for dialogue and growth CultureALL Urbandale Polk 2022 $20,000.00
Black Stories Collective Grout Museum District Waterloo Black Hawk 2022 $20,000.00
Educating and Inspiring Iowans Through the Story of First Lady Lou Hoover Hoover Presidential Foundation West Branch Cedar 2022 $9,575.00