Federation of State Humanities Councils

Mission: The Federation advocates for increased investment in and engagement with the national network of humanities councils. The organization supports, connects, and amplifies the work and voices of its members, demonstrating councils' value for communities and their collective impact on civic health and cultural vibrancy.

Vision: A fully-resourced, inclusive, and thriving humanities council network that builds capacity for people and communities throughout the country to understand one another and navigate together towards a better future.

Core Focus Areas:

• Advocacy: Advocating to Congress for federal funding and serving as a liaison with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• Capacity Building: Providing collaboration, conversations, partnerships, tools, trainings, and resources through in-person and virtual events, a Member Portal, and other platforms
• National Humanities Conference: Established in 1978, the conference brings together the nationwide network of state and jurisdictional humanities councils and those interested in advancing public humanities work. Since 2015, the Federation has partnered with the National Humanities Alliance to make the conference available to both public and academic humanities practitioners
• Special Projects: Programs that promote working with other organizations to support the public humanities through discrete, time-specified projects
• NEH-Funded Equitable Access Grants: Supporting access to the National Humanities Conference