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Workshopping Questions to Evaluate Your Humanities Program
Posted OnNovember 24, 2020 byBy Cecily Hill At the Virtual National Humanities Conference, which took place earlier this month, Emily McDonald and I conducted a workshop on evaluating the impact of humanities programming. The workshop aimed to introduce participants to our Impact Survey Toolkit, as well as to offer tips about how to write stronger questions for surveys they…Read More…
How Participating in NEH Summer Workshops Supported Teachers Through COVID-19
Posted OnOctober 6, 2020 byBy Cecily Hill Over the past 18 months, NHA has worked with 14 project directors of NEH-funded summer seminars, institutes, and landmarks workshops. These residential, thematic professional development programs help K-12 educators access engaging and up-to-date humanities scholarship and immerse them in the histories and cultures of American regions. Together, we have surveyed participants in…Read More…
Celebrating our Partners this National Arts and Humanities Month
Posted OnOctober 2, 2020 byBy Stephen Kidd Each October, we celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month by calling attention to the many ways humanities research, teaching, and programs serve students and communities across the country. This year, with the country in the midst of a reckoning with racial injustice and facing a pandemic that has caused widespread suffering and…Read More…
Storytelling with Data during COVID-19
Posted OnSeptember 28, 2020 byBy Emily McDonald and Younger Oliver Advocacy on behalf of our cultural institutions is as crucial now as ever. The COVID-19 crisis has cast a shadow of deep uncertainty on all areas of American life, and how far these social and economic impacts may reach is still very much unknown. Over the past six months,…Read More…
NEH Grant Release: July 2020
Posted OnAugust 10, 2020 byBy Cecily Hill On July 28, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) released $30 million in funding for 238 humanities projects. This was the final grant release for FY 20 and came shortly on the heels of the release of NEH CARES grants in June. The July grant release will fund professional development for…Read More…
Virtual Briefing: Humanities Organizations and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Posted OnJuly 21, 2020 byBy Cecily Hill On Wednesday, June 24, the National Humanities Alliance hosted a virtual briefing aimed at educating our members and congressional staffers on how humanities organizations are adapting to serve their communities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. I was joined in conversation by Vivé Griffith, director of outreach and engagement for The Clemente Course in…Read More…
Introducing our Impact Survey Toolkit
Posted OnMay 13, 2020 byBy Cecily Hill After two years of working with NEH grantees to document the impact of their programs, it is a delight to introduce one product of this effort—Documenting the Impact of Your Humanities Program: A Toolkit. Since 2018, we’ve worked with twenty-nine NEH funded programs to tell the story of their impact through surveys….Read More…
NEH Grant Release: January 2020
Posted OnFebruary 18, 2020 byBy Cecily Hill In January, the NEH announced $30.9 million in funding for 188 projects located throughout the United States. Grants were awarded in a number of categories: Through its Fellowships, Awards for Faculty, and Fellowships for Advanced Research on Japan programs, the NEH provides year- or semester-long sabbaticals for researchers. Ninety-nine grants were awarded…Read More…
NEH Impact: Fostering Community Pride Through the Humanities
Posted OnJanuary 28, 2020 byBy Emily McDonald The Mastheads, a public humanities organization in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, was founded in 2016 with a goal of connecting Pittsfield residents to the literary heritage of the region, cultivating pride in place, and supporting the production of new creative work. This mission grew out of the challenges Pittsfield has faced since General Electric,…Read More…