Mississippi Humanities Regular Grants

Mississippi Humanities Regular Grants

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Mississippi Humanities Council Inc
Amount: US $2,501 - US $10,000
Last Updated: April 04, 2026

Summary

The Mississippi Humanities Council offers grants aimed at enhancing public engagement with the humanities. These grants support projects that foster community dialogue and participation, making humanities accessible to all Mississippians. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations and educational institutions, while projects must be free and open to the public. Ineligible activities include those that involve for-profit entities or promote specific political views. This initiative emphasizes collaboration between humanities scholars and communities.

Overview

About the Mississippi Humanities Council The Mississippi Humanities Council is committed to helping our communities to explore and share their history and culture by creating public humanities programs that encourage reflection, discussion, and civic participation. The Council offers a variety of grants to support public humanities lectures and panel discussions, historical and photographic exhibits, oral histories, the planning of larger projects, and the development of original productions in film and online content. What are the Humanities? The humanities enrich our understanding of the human experience in the past, present and future. The humanities disciplines, as defined by Congress, include: literature, classics, languages and linguisticshistory and archaeologyphilosophy, jurisprudence, ethics and comparative religionhistory, criticism and theory of the artssocial sciences employing historical or philosophical approaches Through language, literature and the arts, human beings express their knowledge about their cultural heritage and reflect on its meaning. The contributions of scholars, writers and researchers in such fields as philosophy, ethics and jurisprudence enrich the civic dialogue in a democratic society. Insights about the past from archaeology and history enable us to interpret the present and plan for a better future. Regular Grants The MHC grants program seeks to fund projects that stimulate meaningful community dialogue, attract diverse audiences, are participatory and engaging, and apply the humanities to our everyday lives.  Project activities are primarily intended to serve Mississippians and must be free and open to the public. Regular grants may be used to support larger public humanities programs, conferences, exhibits and the development of original productions in film, television, radio or online resources. It is essential that the applicant organization and humanities scholars collaborate in preparing the grant application. Please state on your application whether your proposed speakers have accepted your invitation to participate on the scheduled dates. Participating scholars should understand that their audience will consist of the general public, not just other scholars.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Organizations or groups that apply for grants from MHC must be constituted for nonprofit purposes. It is not necessary that such organizations or groups be incorporated or have tax-exempt status.  As per federal rule 2 CFR 25, grant applicants must obtain a DUNS number and maintain active System for Award Management (SAM) registration. Grant applicants must also have an EIN number from the IRS. Typical organizations eligible for grants include:Private nonprofit organizationsInstitutions of higher educationState, local and federally recognized Indian tribal governmentsCommunity and cultural organizationsEducational and professional groupsMuseumsLibrariesPublic agenciesNon-commercial radio and television stations

Ineligibility

MHC does not award grants to individuals or for-profit entities. MHC will not support the following:programs that have an admission fee or registration chargeprojects primarily intended to promote an organization or its programssalaries of employees associated with the applying organization construction,preservation or renovation of facilities or purchase of equipmentacquisitions or additions to collectionsalcoholic beveragesentertainment food costs for audiencescourses for academic creditfellowships, scholarships and prizestravel to professional meetingsindividual research projects unless they are directly supporting a public humanities programpublications, or performances or presentations of works of art, unless they are essential in conveying the humanities content of the project to a non-academic audienceprojects that advocate or promote a particular political, ideological, religious or partisan point of viewNo MHC grants funds may be used for political lobbying activities