Implementation Grants

Geographic Scope: Connecticut

Grants to support the implementation and execution of humanities programs, exhibitions, and public engagement projects. These grants fund organizations carrying out planned humanities initiatives.

Focus Areas:

• Exhibition implementation
• Public program implementation
• Community engagement projects
• Educational program delivery
• Cultural initiatives

Funding Examples (FY18):

• Bridgeport History Center: We Are Artists Everyone: The Art Center in Action, 1970-1986 - $10,511
• Connecticut River Museum: Connecticut River Myths and Legends Project - $49,915
• Farmington Hill-Stead Museum: Sunken Garden Poetry Festival 2018 - $20,000
• Harriet Beecher Stowe Center: Launching the New Stowe Center Experience - $20,000
• New Haven International Festival of Arts & Ideas: The Ideas Program at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas - $25,000
• Old Lyme Florence Griswold Museum: Art and the New England Farm - $25,000
• Westport Country Playhouse: Community Engagement events surrounding THOUSAND PINES - $20,000
• Mystic Seaport Museum: The Vinland Map Exhibition - $22,955
• Stonington Historical Society: The Rollie McKenna Project - $24,966
• Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s - $25,000

Address: 100 Riverview Center Suite 290, Middletown, CT 06457

Application Process

Submission Method: Online through CTH Grant Portal

Contact: For more information about grant opportunities and upcoming deadlines, contact Scott Wands, Manager of Grants at swands@cthumanities.org

Application Portal: cthumanities.org/cth-grant-portal

Note: Organizations are encouraged to contact the Manager of Grants to discuss project ideas before applying.