NewsMeet Elsabé Dixon
As Executive Director of the Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History (DMFAH), Elsabé Dixon is currently overseeing a $10,000 grant from Virginia Humanities supporting production of a new orientation film for the museum.
NewsAnnouncing $599K in CARES Act Grants
Today, Virginia Humanities announced $599,500 in grants to 110 museums, libraries, historical societies, and other cultural nonprofit organizations across the state. The grants, part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and …
NewsPeanut Documentary to Air on Virginia Public Media
A Virginia Humanities funded documentary is scheduled to air on Virginia Public Media PBS stations on April 30 at 9PM. The film, Invisible Thread: The Story of Peanuts in Western Tidewater, …
NewsNow Accepting Applications for CARES Act Emergency Funds
Note: The application deadline for this program was April 30, 2020 Virginia Humanities is now accepting applications from museums, historic sites, and other humanities-based nonprofit organizations affected by the COVID-19 …
NewsVirginia Humanities to Award CARES Act Funds to Virginia Nonprofits in Need
With more than $500,000 in emergency funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), we will be providing grants to museums, historic sites, and cultural institutions across Virginia affected by the …
NewsHumanities Needs Survey
As part of the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has received crisis funding to support the work of humanities organizations and scholars. …
NewsOpen Grant Deadline Extended to April 24
Notice to Prospective Grant Applicants: We recognize that the Coronavirus presents significant challenges, both personal and work-related, to all our prospective grant applicants. While much has changed in all our lives as a result of the Coronavirus, we have decided to keep the application deadline and review schedule for the spring 2020 Open Grant cycle the same.
NewsNew Short Film Tells the Story of Virginia’s Maggie Lena Walker
Unladylike is a series of twenty-six multimedia films honoring the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage. Launched in March during Women’s History Month and continuing through August 26 2020, each ten-minute …
NewsRichmond’s Civil Rights Past Remembered Through Stories
By Nora Pehrson Virginia Humanities grant recipient and former fellow Laura Browder is working to share the history of Richmond’s civil rights movement with public audiences. Funded in part by …
NewsOur Grant Guidelines Are Being Updated
The limit on Open Grant requests has been increased to $20,000 and Discretionary Grants will be increased on July 1.
NewsVirginia Humanities Announces Twenty-Seven New Grants
Virginia Humanities announces $185,650 in recent grants to twenty-seven nonprofit organizations in support of public humanities programs serving communities across the Commonwealth. Since 1974, the Virginia Humanities Grants Program has …
NewsWhistle Words
Humanities’ Power to Heal is a film and writing project capturing the transformational and healing power of writing for women diagnosed with cancer.
NewsBay to Belly
By Nora Pehrson Thanks to a grant from Virginia Humanities, the Watermen’s Museum in Yorktown, Virginia is developing a traveling exhibit devoted to the food systems of the Chesapeake Bay …
NewsVirginia Humanities Announces Twenty-Five New Grants
Virginia Humanities announces $140,900 in recent grants to twenty-five nonprofit organizations in support of public humanities programs for audiences throughout the Commonwealth and beyond. The Virginia Humanities Grants Program helps …
