The training and mentoring of student veterans at two universities to lead campus- and state-wide dialogues on female combatants in the Civil War and the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Working with an advisory committee consisting of veterans (emphasis on student and women veterans), faculty from CMVE member colleges and universities, veteran administration counselors, corporate veteran’s association representatives, and community members, Michigan Humanities will develop a program designed to train student reflective conversation facilitators, and hold at least three reflective community conversations both on campus and in the community.

A special grant program that focuses on national themes and events through the lens of Michigan history.

The Michigan Humanities Council will issue an RFP for proposals that recognize Michigan’s identity as an “inclusive identity,” i.e., one that has faced questions of difference throughout its ethnic, political, economic, creative, labor, and regional relationships. Proposals will address Michigan’s struggle with questions of identity by engaging the tensions that make Michigan a microcosm of forces that shape America. The following terms should anchor proposals: urban vs. rural; local vs. state; state vs. federal; ethnicity; regionalism; identity; conflict; federalism, and nationalism.

To support a grant program conducted by the Michigan Humanities Council that invites proposals for projects focused on important issues and events in both Michigan's and the United State's history and culture.

The Michigan Humanities Council will preserve and expand its previous We the People grant program: 1) by having a theme-based call for grant proposals that examines events and themes in Michigan/American history and culture that will encompass all aspects of work; 2) by combining the Council's major grant program with its We the People funding so that additional WTP programs will be presented to communities throughout the state.

To support a series of initiatives related to Picturing America, including a seminar for teachers, a speakers bureau, partnerships with museums in Michigan, and a documentary video program for high schools.

The Michigan Humanities Council proposes a series of initiatives to support and expand the Picturing America program. All Michigan Picturing America schools will be eligible to participate in the following: 1) teachers seminar; 2) speakers bureau; 3) museum partnership; 4) Picturing Your Community in America documentary video program (high school only).

Funding will support the Great Michigan Read in 2011-2012, a statewide initiative that uses a single book to explore humanities topics relevant to Michigan and America.

The Michigan Humanities Council’s Great Michigan Read is a statewide reading initiative that utilizes a single book to explore humanities topics relevant to Michigan and America. By emphasizing literature unique to the Great Lakes State, the program aims to make reading more accessible and appealing while encouraging Michiganians to discuss the challenges currently facing the state and the nation.

Implementation of a series of public programs across Michigan that would address the historical, cultural, and environmental impact of water.

Third Coast Conversations: Dialogues about Water in Michigan, will be a series of statewide public conversations taking place in 31 communities over two years that focus on the cultural, social, historical, and environmental factors that connect Michigan’s people to their water. The project will be led by the Michigan Humanities Council in collaboration with their strong network of partner organizations on the ground. The conversation-based project will allow MHC to augment Water/Ways, a Smithsonian Institution Museum on Main Street travelling exhibit that MHC is already bringing to six rural communities in Michigan with populations of 2,000 people or less as part of our regularly scheduled programming. The exhibit topic, as well as ongoing issues concerning drinking water quality in Flint and other communities, presents a unique opportunity to focus attention on the importance of water as Michigan’s most valuable natural resource.

To support local, statewide, and regional humanities projects for the general public.

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

To support public programs, through regrants to institutions and organizations, which relate the humanities and humanists to issues of broad public interest in Michigan. For its second operational year the Committee has chosen as its theme: "The Michigan Economy: A Humanistic Understanding of Production, Consumption, and Leisure".

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

The Michigan Council is operating during its first year under the theme, "The Michigan Economy: A Humanistic Understanding of Production, Consumption, and Leisure." The theme represents a crucial issue of concern in the state of Michigan, and also one which can function as a public program in the humanities. The Council will hold conferences, develop a brochure, and seek radio time in order to p^licize the program.

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

To support local, statewide, and regional humanities projects for the general public.

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

To support for Detroit-area K-12 teachers two series of six symposia each, a summer institute, a minigrant program, and a curriculum unit for statewide distribution on the theme, "The Americas: Hispanic History and Culture."

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

State Humanities Council General Operation Support Grant

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

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