Alabama Humanities Alliance Offers Major Grants for Public Humanities Programs
The Alabama Humanities Alliance (AHA), the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is offering Major Grants to support public humanities programming across Alabama. These grants aim to foster understanding of history, literature, civics, culture, and related disciplines. The program connects scholars with communities through projects designed to encourage dialogue, critical thinking, lifelong learning, and civic engagement. Funding amounts can reach up to $15,000 per project, with a required 1:1 cost-share match, and the grant period can extend up to two years. Key requirements for these Major Grant projects include the involvement of at least one humanities scholar who is not the project director. Supported formats for these programs are diverse, encompassing lectures, panel discussions, conferences, cultural and literary festivals, book discussions, teacher workshops, public and oral history projects, temporary or traveling exhibitions, documentary films, podcasts, apps, and other d...
