WEST VIRGINIA HUMANITIES COUNCIL ANNOUNCES GRANT AWARDS

Charleston – The West Virginia Humanities Council, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, serves West Virginia through grants and direct programs in the humanities. The Humanities Council budgets over $800,000 for grants and programs each year. Various grants are offered to nonprofit organizations that support educational programming.
Minigrants, designed for projects requesting $2,000 or less, are awarded four times per year. The next Humanities Council minigrant deadline is April 1. The West Virginia Humanities Council recently awarded five new minigrants:
Harpers Ferry Park Association, Known Unknowns: Enslaved and Enslavers in Harpers Ferry, research and database project
Marshall University Research Corporation, The A. E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series, reading and discussion
National Coal Heritage Area Authority, Clear Fork Rail Trail Interpretive Plan
West Virginia University Research Corporation, Art and AI, panel discussion
West Virginia University Research Corporation, WVU Libraries’ Art in the Libraries Program Retrospective Exhibition
For more information about West Virginia Humanities Council grants, contact Humanities Council grants administrator Erin Riebe at (304) 346-8500 or via email at [email protected]. Grant guidelines and applications are available on the Humanities Council website, www.wvhumanities.org.
The West Virginia Humanities Council, an independent nonpartisan nonprofit corporation, is the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Council is supported by the NEH, the State of West Virginia, and contributions from the private sector. The purposes of the West Virginia Humanities Council are educational, and its mission is to support a vigorous program in the humanities statewide in West Virginia.