Program

Federal/State Partnership: Grants for State Humanities Councils

Period of Performance

9/1/2009 - 2/28/2012

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$409,810.00 (approved)
$409,810.00 (awarded)


New Strategic Directions

FAIN: BC-50496-09

California Humanities (Oakland, CA 94607-3945)
Ralph Lewin (Project Director: May 2009 to March 2014)
Christina Sutherland (Project Director: March 2014 to March 2015)
Julie Fry (Project Director: March 2015 to September 2014)

Funding will support documentary media projects and humanities-based civic engagement community discussions.

The California Council for the Humanities respectfully requests $409,810 in support of new programming directions we will be implementing under our new strategic plan. The directions we are pursuing include support for humanities-based media productions and their distribution issue/theme-based civic dialogue and engagement community-engaged scholars and campus/community partnerships, and public education resource and capacity building. These directions are aligned with our three overarching goals of: Field Building, Knowledge & Meaning Building, and Public Engagement.