Recent Grant Awards
Humanities Nebraska offers grants to nonprofit organizations in support of projects related to the humanities including history, literature, languages, jurisprudence, philosophy, comparative religion, ethics, and the history, theory and criticism of the arts. Applicants must have non-profit status according to the State of Nebraska and the IRS, and must provide proof of 501(c)(3) or other 501(c) status. (State, county, or local government entities, including schools, are exempt from this requirement.)
| Grant Recipient | City | Amount | Description |
| African American Midwest / Milwaukee Film | Bethesda MD | $13,359 | Production of documentary short on the history of racial terror lynchings in the Midwest |
| Asian Community and Cultural Center | Lincoln | $1,630 | youth multicultural summer camp |
| AND | $5,460 | Storytelling workshops for immigrants and refugees | |
| Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts | Omaha | $3,932 | Facilitated discussion and poetry workshop for “Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers” exhibit |
| Blixt Locally Grown | Lincoln | $1,550 | Conversations and educational outreach following performances of “Not Too Far Distant” |
| Bright Lights | Lincoln | $5,000 | Humanities summer camps for youth |
| Circle Theatre | Omaha | $1,000 | Yiddish Theatre festival |
| Civic Nebraska | Lincoln | $2,000 | Planning for Kid Governor program |
| College of Saint Mary | Omaha | $2,000 | “Letters from Anne and Martin” production and discussion |
| Crane River Theater Company | Kearney | $2,000 | Page to Stage Library Outreach: Beauty and the Beast |
| AND | $1,000 | Student matinee performances of “To Kill A Mockingbird” | |
| Custer County Historical Society | Broken Bow | $925 | Update of Solomon D. Butcher exhibit |
| The Durham Museum | Omaha | $10,500 | Exhibition: “Beyond Combat: WWI Through the Lens of Doc Cook” |
| El Museo Latino | Omaha | $3,767 | A series of gallery talks in conjunction with art exhibits |
| Friends of the Homestead | Beatrice | $1,375 | 2024 Tallgrass Prairie Fiddle Festival |
| Gage County Historical Society | Beatrice | $1,757 | “Big Blue Reservation: Struggles and Hopes of the Otoe/Missouria Tribe” exhibition |
| Gering Public Library Foundation | Gering | $2,000 | Two talks by Amberly Snyder |
| Great Plains Theatre Commons | Omaha | $8,000 | 2024 New Play Conference |
| Harold Warp Pioneer Village Foundation | Minden | $2,500 | Virtual reality studio for immersive history education |
| The House of Afros, Capes & Curls | Omaha | $9,500 | Young History Detective Youth Program |
| Johnson County Nebraska Historical Society | Tecumseh | $1,913 | Monday Night at the Museum |
| Kearney Area Community Foundation | Kearney | $2,000 | Kearney Area Storytelling Festival |
| AND | $857 | Platte River Singers, The Journey West | |
| Larksong Writers Place | Lincoln | $895 | First Friday Book Talk & Reading Series |
| and | $1,170 | Third Thursdays: Voices at Larksong | |
| Lincoln Community Foundation, for Intertribal Medicine Collective | Lincoln | $1,588 | Indigenous Medicine Traditions on the Plains Educational Series |
| Museum of American Speed | Lincoln | $1,738 | Nebraska Auto Racing Hall of Fame display |
| Malaika Foundation | Lincoln | $1,953 | Filming Indigenous language instructors |
| National Orphan Train Complex Museum and Research Center | Concordia KS | $4,880 | “When Orphan Trains Went West” presentations in four Nebraska libraries |
| Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival | Lincoln | $5,750 | Three events at the Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival exploring the connections between the humanities and expression through music |
| Nebraska Poetry Society | Omaha | $1,000 | Virtual poetry education events |
| and | $2,000 | Nebraska Poets Reading Series 2024 | |
| Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation | Lincoln | $2,000 | Pershing Mural Academic Curriculum |
| Omaha Conservatory of Music | Omaha | $1,000 | Music & Wellness Winter Festival |
| Partners for Livable Omaha | Omaha | $2,000 | Public sound installation art lecture and event |
| Plum Creek Children’s Literacy Festival | Seward | $5,000 | Fall 2024 festival authors and illustrators |
| Sidney Gold Rush Days | Sidney | $2,000 | History speakers at Gold Rush Days festival |
| Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Church | Lincoln | $2,000 | Virtual winter lecture series |
| Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center | Denton | $2,000 | Return of the Thunderbirds event |
| Stand In For Nebraska | Lincoln | $4,538 | Roots to Rise youth summer enrichment camp |
| Tri-Faith Initiative | Omaha NE 68144 | $5,500 | Race, Religion & Social Justice Conference |
| UNK Board of Regents | Kearney | $3,500 | Loper Launch Humanities Enrichment Camps |
| UNL Board of Regents | Lincoln | $4,005 | Traveling photo gallery with stories of Nebraska women in agriculture |
| UNMC Board of Regents | Omaha | $2,000 | Living Library: Stories of Women’s Health |
| UNO Board of Regents | Omaha | $830 | Nebraska Regional Ethics Bowl |
| Washington County Historical Association | Fort Calhoun | $1,468 | Interpretive Sign for One-Room Schoolhouse |
| Wayne County Historical Society | Wayne | $1,000 | Materials for a series of exhibits |
| West Nebraska Arts Center | Scottsbluff | $1,406 | Lakota Culture Through Artists Eyes |
| Willa Cather Foundation | Red Cloud | $1,900 | National Willa Cather Center Author Series |
| AND | $7,810 | 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference | |