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(an abbreviated excerpt from the Michigan Humanities Council web site:)
Beginning with the Sept. 1, 2001, deadline, the Council will accept grant applications in the following categories:
PUBLIC HUMANITIES DEVELOPMENT GRANTS
Description: designed to plan and/or create a significant public humanities project
with the capacity to reach multiple sites or an identified network of users, or to draw underserved audiences.
Grant Maximum: $15,000
Examples:
university archives creates traveling exhibit on Latino workers and conducts supplementary programming in three
communities across the state; historical society develops K-12 curricular materials and national web site database
featuring the life of Sojourner Truth; · video documentary on the history, architecture and preservation
efforts of small-town movie theatres; college and historical society collaborate to research and develop a dramatic
Chautauqua series.
Key question for applicants: Will funding in this category lead to the planning or creation of substantial new
public humanities resources?
EXTENDING THE REACH GRANTS
Description: designed to take an established and/or previously Michigan Humanities Council-funded,
successful program into other venues for new or underserved audiences, multiple sites or networks of the applicant's
defining. Funding would be targeted for distribution expenses.
Grant Maximum: $7,500
Examples:
an established workshop series on conducting genealogy research is taken to senior centers and churches in four
communities across the state; exhibit on the history of county fairs is displayed at other fairs in northern Michigan
counties; an on-campus exhibition and lecture series is taken to off-campus sites, or off-campus audiences are
brought in.
Key question for applicants: Will funding in this category lead to a previously successful program being appropriately
targeted at new off-campus or off-site locations or audiences?
LOCAL NETWORK GRANTS
Description: designed for communities, areas or local cultural organizations seeking
funding for new local/regional collaborative efforts for planning and/or joint programming with new projects reaching
new audiences.
Grant Maximum: $15,000
Examples: local writers guild teams up with area arts council to develop joint programs for community festival;
public library and middle school establish after-school reading/discussion programs for young-adult readers; area
cultural and natural resource organizations form alliance to plan humanities cultural tourism activities.
Key question for applicants: Will funding in this category lead to the collaboration of local organizations to
plan or develop new local humanities activities or networks?
GENERAL HUMANITIES GRANTS
Description: Supports public humanities programs on miscellaneous topics that clearly
fit outside the other grant categories.
NOTE TO APPLICANTS: Applications in the General category will only be considered if the project CANNOT meet objectives
established in the Council's other categories. Applicants should provide a rationale for choosing this category.
Grant Maximum: $3,000
Examples:
symphony and school district create curricular materials and present concert on Javanese music and musical instruments;
lecture series on language usages and changes in contemporary society; visit and lectures by Russian novelist to
community in northern Michigan.
Key question for applicants: Will funding in this category lead to excellent public humanities activities that
do not fit the objectives of the other grant categories?
PROPOSAL DEADLINES
Beginning with the Sept. 1, 2001, deadline, all grants are available at all four grant deadlines. All deadline
dates are postmark deadline dates. If a deadline or workshop date falls on a holiday or weekend, the deadline or
workshop is extended to the next working day. The Council encourages applicants to submit DRAFT proposals for staff
review and assistance; all draft proposals are due at least two weeks before the deadline date.
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