Sustaining and Advancing Historical Work in Post-Pandemic America: Grants to Organizations

FAIN: ZOR-283655-21

American Historical Association (Washington, DC 20003-3807)
Dana Lanier Schaffer (Project Director: May 2021 to February 2025)

A grant program resulting in 64 subawards to provide relief from the coronavirus pandemic to small history-related humanities organizations (professional associations; historical museums and related site-based organizations; and departments in Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Tribal Colleges and Universities).

The American Historical Association's "Sustaining and Advancing Historical Work in Post-Pandemic America: Grants to Organizations" program is a one-year funding opportunity that supports small history-related organizations to respond to and recover from effects of the coronavirus and to restore, sustain, and perhaps elevate their work. Organizations with annual budgets of $750,000 or less, including professional associations, site-based institutions, and history and humanities departments in historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), will be eligible to apply for grants between $10,000 and $75,000. These grants are intended to mobilize public resources for the promotion of historical work, historical thinking, and/or the presence of history in public life. A crucial aspect of this program will be web-based gatherings of grantees to learn from one another and generate collaborations that will extend beyond the grant period.