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Building a More Perfect Union: Pandemic Recovery Grants for Humanities Organizations will offer 60 grants of $50,000 each to local, regional, and cross-regional humanities organizations. The purpose of these grants is to support their recovery from the impacts of COVID-19, to re-engage with local educators and families, and to re-imagine how programming by history, archival, and literature-focused cultural organizations can help communities envision "building a more perfect union" in anticipation of the 250th anniversary of our founding.

This program recognizes cultural and interpretive organizations and centers as essential to helping communities understand and reimagine their relationship to larger narratives that animate our national conversations. The scope of the program is national, with a particular interest in communities that are less visible in American mainstream public programming and educational curricula.

The purpose of this program is to provide emergency relief for humanities organizations developing educational programming. The activities to be performed include the administration of a grantmaking program comprised of approximately 50 subawards of $50,000. This program will support local, regional, and cross-regional cultural organizations recovering from the coronavirus pandemic by developing educational programming that deepens engagement with underrepresented communities.

The expected outcomes of this program are emergency relief to approximately 50 humanities organizations. The intended beneficiaries of these grants are historic sites, archives, and public-facing humanities centers. The subrecipient activities will involve the development of educational programming, including exhibits, public forums, online learning programs, and curricula for school-age youth.

National Writing Project

45.164 - Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

California United States

State-Wide

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