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 |
| Antelope County Society | Neligh | $2,000 | Native American display |
| Asian Community and Cultural Center | Lincoln | $1,450 | Camp Culture 2022 |
| Buffalo Commons Storytelling Festival | McCook | $2,000 | 2022 Event |
| Crane River Theater | Kearney | $2,000 | “Page to Stage” outreach program |
| Food Fort | Lincoln | $1,100 | “Tree Top Education” elementary school reading and writing program |
| Lincoln Commission on Human Rights | Lincoln | $300 | Martin Luther King Jr. “Living a Dream” arts competition |
| 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 |
| O. NE Mentoring Academy | Omaha | $1,250 | Mentoring underserved students |
| 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” |
| 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” |
| 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” |
| 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 | ||
| Vision Maker Media | Lincoln | $2,000 | Filmmaker Summit 2022 |
| Willa Cather Foundation | Red Cloud | $2,000 | Smithsonian Crossroads Supplemental Programming |
