HumanitiesDC Current Grant Request for Applications -- deadline Jan 28 -- Happy to Offer

The DC Oral History Collaborative Partnership Grants are now open! The Collaborative offers three grant programs:

Oral History Project Grants – $8,000 award for collecting oral history interviews around a particular topic, theme or research question related to Washington, DC. The grant can pay for staff salary and wages, honoraria, equipment purchases, software subscriptions, travel, outreach, transcription, and other expenses directly associated with collecting oral history interviews. Projects must collect at least five interviews, each with: a release form for inclusion in the DC Public Library’s online archive, transcript, index, and metadata. Each project director also participates in a three-session training workshop.

Extension Grants – $7,000 award for extending projects previously conducted with an Oral History Project Grant. The previous grant must be completely closed out. Projects must collect at least another five interviews with complete documentation. These interviews, too, are made available for inclusion in the DC Public Library’s special collection.

Public Programming Grants – $12,000 maximum award for projects that use existing collections to create accessible public humanities projects in Washington, DC. Projects must ensure that narrators’ original voices are faithfully and respectfully represented in their projects and must include the narrators in the development of the project whenever possible.

Submissions for all three grants are due on Friday, January 28, 2022.

Additional funding opportunities for humanities-based projects will be available in the coming weeks!

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