NEH American Rescue Plan: Humanities Organizations Grant Application from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

FAIN: ZRE-283340-22

Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, VA 23187-8781)
Karin A. Wulf (Project Director: May 2021 to September 2021)
Catherine Elizabeth Kelly (Project Director: September 2021 to February 2023)

A research institute devoted to the history of early America that will retain four staff members and sustain audio and digital programming and resources that were expanded during the pandemic.

The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (OI), an independent research institute focused on early America, requests $200,000 in Level II funding from NEH American Rescue Plan: Humanities Organizations to support OI positions adversely affected by budget cuts due to the pandemic. Funding will support staff salaries for humanities positions directly focused on audio and digital programming essential to the OI’s mission and key to the OI’s ongoing research and programming to meet the challenge and opportunity of 2026 and the 250th anniversary of America’s founding, in keeping with NEH’s “A More Perfect Union” initiative.