MHC Grants Program
A&H Touring Program Grants
Applications & Guidelines
Deadlines & Workshops
Grants Archive
Michigan People, Michigan Places
Picturing America in Michigan Grants
Publicity Requirements
Quick/Planning Grants
Quick/Planning Grant Application
Quick/Planning Grants On-line App.
Report Forms
Resources - Library of MI
Schedule of MHC Funded Grants
The Great Michigan Read Grants
Transportation Grants

Michigan Humanities Council offers three main grants programs:

• Michigan People, Michigan Places. Our Stories, Our Lives Grants
  • Public Humanities Grants
  • Media and Exhibit Grants
• Picturing America in Michigan Grants
• Quick/Planning Grants
  • Planning
  • Guest Speaker
  • Reading Discussion
  • Other
• Arts & Humanities Touring Program Grants
• Transportation Grants

The Council invites you to take a look at some of the projects awarded by Council grants in our Grants Archive.

Michigan People, Michigan Places. Our Stories, Our Lives Grants

The Michigan Humanities Council grants emphasize collaboration among cultural, educational, and community-based organizations and institutions to serve Michigan's people with public humanities programming. These grants play a vital role in defining our culture, our state, our community, and ourselves. Organizations are encouraged to explore and retrace our: histories, roles in societies, advancements and changes, meaning in self-expression and fulfillment, commonalities and differences—what shapes us individually as well as communally.

Picturing America in Michigan Grants

Picturing America in Michigan is a collection of programs for Michigan’s 955 schools participating in Picturing America, a National Endowment for the Humanities initiative the helps students gain a deeper understanding of American history through the study and understanding of its art.
For 2008-09, Picturing America in Michigan programs include a museum partnership, teacher seminar series, and documentary film program.

Quick/Planning Grants

Michigan Humanities Council often receives requests from organizations seeking support for public humanities programs that fall outside the design and deadline schedules of the Council's regular grants. To help meet these requests and to match humanities resources and professionals with local needs, the Council offers Quick Grants, which can provide up to $500 to Michigan-based, nonprofit organizations for public humanities prorgrams or services such as:

• Planning (up to $1,000): covering honoraria and/or travel expenses for humanities professionals participating as consultants for public humanities programs;
• Guest Speakers: covering honoraria and/or travel expenses for humanities professionals participating in film/video/exhibit events, conferences, lectures;
• Reading Discussion Programs: covering honoraria and/or travel expenses for humanities professionals leading book discussion groups at libraries or community centers;
• Other Event Expenses such as printing, promotion, video/audio taping, exhibit rental, etc., related to a specific program. Activities falling in this category must be clearly centered in the humanities, involving humanities scholars in consulting, creation, or execution, and be directed at a public audience.

NOTE: Programs and presenters already supported through the Council's Arts & Humanities Touring Program are not eligible for Quick Grant support.

Michigan's Arts & Humanities Touring Program Grants

Arts and Humanities Touring Program grants funds to Michigan nonprofit sponsors to help cover the fees and expenses of the touring presenters and artists listed in the Michigan Arts and Humanities Touring Directory. Touring Program funds from Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs are administered by Michigan Humanities Council under a public-private partnership between the councils.

Transportation Grants

The Michigan Humanities Council and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA) provide transportation grants of up to $500 to Michigan K-12 schools. The grant helps underwrite the transportation cost of a field trip to attend Michigan Humanities Council- and/or MCACA-funded museums, galleries, cultural venues, and programs such as music, dance, theatre performances, and cultural/art exhibits.

Grant Publicity Requirements

The Michigan Humanities Council (MHC) requires each grant recipient include mention of the MHC and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in all of its press releases, publicity materials, and discussion with the media. The following packets are made available in pdf format.

• Please link here to download a copy of the Quick Grant publicity Requirements.
• Please link here to download a copy of the Michigan People, Michigan Places, Our Stories, Our Lives. publicity requirements.
• Please link here to download a copy of the Arts & Humanities Touring Program publicity requirements.
• Publicity requirements for The Great Michigan Read will be made available later this summer.