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.)
| Organization | City | Amount | Project |
| Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts | Omaha | $1,000 | Dr. Jacinda Tran lecture “Close to the Clouds: Encountering Digital Diasporas” |
| Blixt Locally Grown | Lincoln | $1,600 | traveling exhibit for Not Too Far Distant |
| Kearney Area Community Foundation | Kearney | $2,000 | 2026 Kearney Area Storytelling Festival |
| Nebraska Poetry Society | Omaha | $1,200 | 2026 Spring Speaker Series |
| Scribner-Snyder Community Schools | Scribner | $1,500 | Scribner-Snyder Kid’s Club: Discovering Scribner’s Story |
| Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Church | Lincoln | $2,000 | Winter Lecture Series–America First: Then and Now |
| UNK Board of Regents | Kearney | $2,000 | Americans and the Holocaust film screenings and traveling exhibit |
