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 Culture Connection | Omaha | $10,750 | Summer Student Programming and Event |
| Antelope County Society | Neligh | $2,000 | Native American display |
| Asian Community and Cultural Center | Lincoln | $1,450 | Camp Culture 2022 |
| Bright Lights | Lincoln | $5,000 | Youth Summer Camp Humanities Programming |
| Buffalo Commons Storytelling Festival | McCook | $2,000 | 2022 Event |
| Center for Legal Immigration | Lincoln | $2,500 | Language Learning Materials and Teacher Stipend |
| Crane River Theater | Kearney | $2,000 | “Page to Stage” outreach program |
| $3,350 | Student Matinee of “Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” | ||
| The Film Collaborative | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | A documentary film |
| Flatwater Shakespeare Company | Lincoln | $3,188 | Little But Fierce Children’s Writing Workshop |
| Food Fort | Lincoln | $1,100 | “Tree Top Education” elementary school reading and writing program |
| Friends of the Homestead | Beatrice | $2,550 | Prairie Visions Fiddle Festival |
| Friends of Loren Eiseley | Lincoln | $6,500 | Loren Eiseley “Star Thrower” series in Scotts Bluff County |
| Genoa U.S. Indian School Foundation | Genoa | $2,000 | Genoa Indian School Recognition and Remembrance Day |
| Great Plains Theatre Commons | Omaha | $10,000 | New Play Conference |
| John G. Neihardt Foundation | Bancroft | $3,627 | 41st Annual Neihardt Spring Conference |
| Lincoln Commission on Human Rights | Lincoln | $300 | Martin Luther King Jr. “Living a Dream” arts competition |
| LUX Center for the Arts | Lincoln | $2,000 | Gladys Lux Retrospective Booklet |
| Mari Sandoz Heritage Society | Lincoln | $2,000 | 2022 Pilster Lecture & Sandoz Symposium |
| Nebraska Deaf Heritage Museum and Cultural Center | Omaha | $1,500 | Deaf History Month Kickoff event |
| Nebraska Journalism Trust | Omaha | $2,000 | January 2022 forum to explore the current state of journalism in Nebraska |
| Nebraska Poetry Society | Omaha | $625 | Educational events |
| $750 | Fall/Winter 2022 Virtual Education Events | ||
| Nebraska StoryArts | Omaha | $2,000 | Moonshell Storytelling Festival |
| O. NE Mentoring Academy | Omaha | $1,250 | Mentoring underserved students |
| Omaha Public Schools | Omaha | $924 | Buena Vista Faculty Youth Book Club |
| Platte Valley Literacy Association | Columbus | $2,000 | Citizenship class |
| Robert Henri Museum and Historical Walkway | Cozad | $2,000 | Exhibit: “Boyhood on the Prairie: Robert Henri’s Early Years in Nebraska” |
| Sidney Gold Rush Days | Sidney | $1,500 | Sidney Gold Rush Days |
| Social Action Committee of Unitarian Church | Lincoln | $2,000 | Winter Lecture Series “Conflicts within Nations and the Right to Protect |
| Southern Heights Food Forest | Lincoln | $1,500 | “Cultural Foodways” |
| Stand In For Nebraska | Lincoln | $5,800 | Roots to Rise Summer Day Camp |
| Together We Achieve Miracles, Inc. | Omaha | $1,750 | Townhall sharing history of Saratoga and the Beltline Railroad |
| Tri-Faith Initiative | Omaha | $1,000 | “Race, Religion, and Social Justice” |
| $5,000 | “Race, Religion, and Social Justice” | ||
| University of Nebraska-Kearney Board of Regents | Kearney | $10,000 | PAWS University summer Spanish immersion and humanities programming |
| University of Nebraska-Lincoln Board of Regents | Lincoln | $2,000 | Contemporary Indigeneity 2022 |
| University of Nebraska- Omaha Board of Regents | Omaha | $2,000 | “Living Library” |
| $1,900 | ArteLatinX exhibit | ||
| $2,000 | “On the Inside” exhibition | ||
| $3,700 | “Memory Serves” Symposium on Dementia | ||
| Vision Maker Media | Lincoln | $2,000 | Filmmaker Summit 2022 |
| Willa Cather Foundation | Red Cloud | $2,000 | Smithsonian Crossroads Supplemental Programming |
| $10,085 | Spring Conference Programming | ||
| The World Theatre Foundation | Kearney | $1,900 | Jazz at the World |
