CT Humanities: Quick Grants

CT Humanities: Quick Grants

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Connecticut Humanities
Amount: US $250 - US $4,999
Last Updated: June 30, 2025

Summary

CT Humanities offers Quick Grants to support community-oriented public programs that enhance understanding of history, culture, and values. These grants fund small exhibitions, discussion programs, local tours, and reading projects, promoting significant humanities scholarship. All projects must be open to the public, free or low-cost to attend, and clearly interpretive, ensuring they are rooted in the humanities. This initiative reflects CTH's commitment to fostering access and inclusion within the community.

Overview

About CT Humanities Connecticut Humanities (CTH) is an independent, non-profit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. CTH connects people to the humanities through grants, partnerships, and collaborative programs. CTH projects, administration, and program development are supported by state and federal matching funds, community foundations, and gifts from private sources. CTH has earned public trust through its responsible stewardship of federal, state, and private funds, its peer-review grant-making process, its online educational resources, and its work to support, stabilize, and strengthen the organizations and communities it serves. CTH values and promotes inclusion, diversity, equity, and access in our workplace, on our board, with our partners, and through our funding. CT Humanities is committed to workplace diversity and in our hiring practices seeks candidates who represent the diversity of the state, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, indigeneity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, cultural background, and socioeconomic stratum. Quick Grants Quick Grants support a wide range of community-oriented, public programs that help us understand and appreciate human history, culture, values, and beliefs. Quick Grants may fund implementation of small exhibitions, discussion-based public programs, local history tours, and community reading projects. All Quick Grant proposals must demonstrate significant humanities scholarship and content and must be: Open to the general publicFree or low-cost to attendClearly interpretive and based in the humanities Quick Grants fund several project types, including exhibitions, walking tours, panel discussions, digital learning tools, and community reading projects.

Eligibility

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