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Action Grants provide tax-exempt organizations with funds to develop and implement responsive and meaningful humanities programming.

Application Deadline: On a rolling basis, due the last day of each month

Grant Details

Goals and Timeline

Action Grants support projects that help people learn new information, consider different perspectives, share ideas and understand one another better. Programs may come in a variety of formats—workshops, presentations, reading/discussion programs, exhibitions, podcasts, film documentaries and more—as long as they’re open to the public and utilize the humanities as a tool for engagement.

  • Application Deadline: On a rolling basis, due the last day of each month
  • Award: Up to $3,000
  • Notification: Within one month of the application deadline
  • Date Projects May Begin: Six weeks after the application deadline
  • Date by Which Projects Must Be Completed: Within one year of notification

Other Details

  • This grant requires at least a 100 percent cash/in-kind match.
  • We plan to award approximately 40 Action Grants in 2025; depending on demand, we cannot guarantee that funds will remain toward the end of the year.
  • Indiana Humanities grants are funded through the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency.

Funded Projects

The following are lists of projects that have received an Indiana Humanities Action Grant in recent years. For more information about the projects and to discuss ideas for your own programs, contact Indiana Humanities’ grants team at grants@indianahumanities.org or 317.638.1500.

 

Action Grant Resources

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Grant Highlights

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Grantee Spotlight

Culinary Anthropology

Learn how the Cedar Lake Historical Association used an Action Grant to explore the history of the Potawatomi people through their traditions around food.

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The Hidden Sun

Discover how Brick Street Poetry used funds from an Indiana Humanities Action Grant to celebrate the total solar eclipse through an evening of haiku readings and conversation.

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Michigan City Public Library SlamCamp

Read about the Michigan City Public Library's SlamCamp and how the library used an Action Grant to engage middle schoolers in writing poetry and other literary activities.

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Questions?

Contact George Hanlin, Director of Grants:
grants@indianahumanities.org | 317.616.9784

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