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 |
| Angels Theatre Company | Lincoln | $1,225 | Salon Reading Series |
| Antelope County Society | Neligh | $2,000 | Native American display |
| Arnold Area History Museum | Arnold | $2,000 | Planning for History Museum Website |
| Asian Community and Cultural Center | Lincoln | $1,450 | Camp Culture 2022 |
| $1,900 | Untold Migrant Stories 22-23 | ||
| BLIXT Locally Grown | Lincoln | $1,565 | Post-play History Discussions |
| Bright Lights | Lincoln | $5,000 | Youth Summer Camp Humanities Programming |
| Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts | Omaha | $2,000 | Lecture Series |
| Buffalo Commons Storytelling Festival | McCook | $2,000 | 2022 Event |
| Center for Legal Immigration | Lincoln | $2,500 | Language Learning Materials and Teacher Stipend |
| Completely KIDS | Omaha | $2,814 | Multiculturalism Through Music |
| 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 Durham Museum | Omaha | $10,700 | Museum Live! digital learning program |
| The Film Collaborative | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | A documentary film |
| Flatwater Shakespeare Company | Lincoln | $3,188 | Little But Fierce Children’s Writing Workshop |
| Fontenelle Forest | Bellevue | $7,750 | Speaker series to coincide with a new exhibit |
| 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 |
| History Nebraska | Lincoln | $716 | Exhibit-based Lecture |
| Institute for Holocaust Education | Omaha | $5,000 | Anne Frank Traveling Exhibit and Education Program |
| 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 |
| Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra | Lincoln | $2,900 | 2022-23 Pre-Concert Chats |
| 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 Public Media | Lincoln | $10,000 | “Nebraska Stories” series 14th season production |
| Nebraska StoryArts | Omaha | $2,000 | Moonshell Storytelling Festival |
| Nebraska Thespians | Omaha | $3,000 | Student workshops with a traveling artist at the 2023 Nebraska Thespian Festival |
| Nebraska Writers Collective | Omaha | $7,500 | Touring artist workshops and readings for the All Writes Reserved Youth Poetry Festival |
| Omaha Community Playhouse | Omaha | $1,900 | Community Discussion about a Play and Playwright |
| O. NE Mentoring Academy | Omaha | $1,250 | Mentoring Underserved Students |
| Omaha Performing Arts | Omaha | $4,189 | Voices AMPLIFIED arts and social justice series |
| Omaha Public Schools | Omaha | $924 | Buena Vista Faculty Youth Book Club |
| Opera Omaha | Omaha | $2,000 | Poetry & Music Project 2022-2023 |
| 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” |
| $2,000 | Winter Lecture Series “Polarization in America: Is Foreign Policy Different” | ||
| Southern Heights Food Forest | Lincoln | $1,500 | “Cultural Foodways” |
| Stand In For Nebraska | Lincoln | $5,800 | Roots to Rise Summer Day Camp |
| Stone Soup Productions | Washington, D.C. | $12,500 | A Nebraska-based episode of The People’s Recorder, a podcast on the 1930s Federal Writers’ Project |
| TEDx Lincoln | Lincoln | $2,000 | Nebraska Storytelling Festival |
| 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” planning grant |
| $5,000 | “Race, Religion, and Social Justice” | ||
| United by Culture | Lexington | $6,950 | Courageous Voices program for students |
| University of Nebraska-Kearney Board of Regents | Kearney | $10,000 | PAWS University summer Spanish immersion and humanities programming |
| $2,000 | Artist Talk at World Affairs Conference | ||
| University of Nebraska-Lincoln Board of Regents | Lincoln | $2,000 | Contemporary Indigeneity 2022 |
| Lincoln | $10,000 | Develop instructional frameworks to use “Nebraska Stories of Humanity” as a community and school educational resource | |
| 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 |