AHC Access to the Humanities Grant

Overview

About

HumanitiesAR, under the official name of Arkansas Humanities Council, is a nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

In spring 2024, we rebranded with HumanitiesAR as our name. But the new brand serves as more than a new name—it embodies our commitment to accessibility, inclusivity, and forging stronger community ties through the humanities. It’s about providing clarity in our identity and strengthening the recognition of our role within the state of Arkansas

Through the humanities, we remember our history and envision our future. Reading, writing, storytelling, research, and many forms of public dialogue and conversation are central to the humanities and the core of what we do at HumanitiesAR.

Our mission is to empower Arkansans to connect with and promote understanding, appreciation, and use of the humanities and ultimately discover our mutual experiences through programs that:

* Engage educators across the state of Arkansas
* Offer profound storytelling from local historians, authors, and scholars
* Provide Arkansans a place to celebrate and be empowered to connect with the humanities through the discovery and understanding of our diverse and mutual experiences

We work to achieve its mission by awarding grants through a competitive process to nonprofit groups, organizations, teachers, and schools statewide, and by working with key partners to develop local humanities projects and programs for Arkansas audiences.

What are the humanities?

The term “humanities” includes the study of history, literature, ethics, philosophy, language, and the various legal, cultural, religious, and folk traditions—past and present—that define the human condition.

Mission Statement

The mission of the Arkansas Humanities Council is to promote understanding, appreciation, and use of the humanities in Arkansas.

What We Fund

We support innovative, humanities-based projects that connect Arkansans to the past, to one another, to the community, and to all areas of the humanities we share across our state.

Access to the Humanities Grant

The purpose of this grant is to assist nonprofit organizations in ensuring their humanities projects, events, and programs are accessible to Arkansans with disabilities and/or language interpretation or transcription. The program, event, or project must be related to the humanities in order to be eligible.

The goal is to provide a stop-gap solution for organizations to ensure access when other funds are not available to do so.

Types of Eligible Projects:

* captioning services,
* language transcription,
* American Sign Language or other language interpreters for in-person or virtual events,
* acquiring services to make documents, websites, presentations, and exhibits accessible, and for the captioning of videos.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

* The Arkansas Humanities Council supports innovative, humanities-based projects that connect Arkansans to the past, to one another, to community, and to all areas of the humanities we share across our state.

Ineligibility

* Ineligible projects include:
* Social, religious, or political action programs that advocate a specific point of view
* Projects primarily intended to promote an organization or its programs
* Fundraising for a particular organization or cause
* Construction, preservation, or renovation of buildings, bridges, or roads
* International travel or to attend professional meetings
* Creative or performing arts, unless interpretation by humanities scholars is central
* Entertainment, including receptions at public or private events
* Scholarly conference that does not have a strong public outreach component
* College and university courses, courses to fulfill an undergraduate, master’s, or doctorate program
* STEM projects
* Gifts, t-shirts, cash prizes, or awards to anyone
* Meals for applicant’s staff, guests, presenters, schools, or general public
* Ingredients for meals or food demonstrations
* Rent for event spaces owned or operated by the applicant organization
* Salaries, honoraria, and/or fringe benefits for staff of federal or state agencies
* Grants awarded to individuals
* Grant writer fees and salaries
* Fiscal agent grant administration fee or salary
* Restoration or conservation work
* Fellowships or scholarships
* Foreign, non-economy, or extensive domestic airline travel
* For profit activities or events
* Unsecured registration fees, grants, and donations may not be used for cost-share.
* Council grant funds may not be used for stipends for educators participating in seminars or institutes.