 Audre Lorde, Poet
Humanities New York - Kicked-off Women's History Month on March 19th with the reading and discussion series Your Silence Will Not Protect You! This six-part series will focus on the work of poet, civil rights activist, and librarian Audre Lorde at the Hudson Area Library. Books are being made available courtesy of Humanities NY through the Mid-Hudson Library System. The sessions started March 19, 2018, and will continue through the month of April.
Wisconsin Humanities Council - Presented its ShopTalk series with Alison Staudinger on March 25, 2018, delivering her talk,“Women's Work During Prohibition.” This talk will focus on the stories of real Wisconsin women and consider how the value of work in the home changed during Prohibition and how it is valued today.
Delaware Humanities - On March 22, 2018, award-winning public historian and DE Humanities speaker, Kim Burdick, presented a talk exploring the Preservation Pioneer Louise du Pont Crowninshield. Louise laid the groundwork for what would become America’s historic preservation movement. Her work has been recognized by organizations such as the National Park Service and the Salem Maritime Complex.
The National Endowment for the Humanities is seeking peer reviewers with fresh and diverse perspectives for its various grant offerings. If interested, please sign up to become a panelist by using our online form. Please feel free to share this widely and encourage people to apply within your state's cultural and academic networks. If you or your colleagues are interested in serving as panelists, please also make our office aware by e-mailing: fedstate@neh.gov
To learn more about the application review process, check out this page on the NEH website: https://www.neh.gov/grants/application-process. Also on the website, the agency privacy policy: https://www.neh.gov/privacy.
 Jon Parrish Peede, Senior Deputy Chairman, NEH
Prisoner education efforts bring a light of
hope to the lives of inmates. While paying their debts
to society, people who are incarcerated are no less deserving of access to the
humanities and letters, as a key to enrichment within an environment all
too conducive to despair. According to an op-ed penned by Elizabeth Hinton in the New York Times, today, about one-third of penal institutions in the
United States offer classroom instruction in a variety of subjects to inmate
learners. The ripple effects of such targeted educational intervention lift up
not only those imprisoned, but their families, communities, and society as a
whole. The prisoner education programs sponsored by state humanities councils provide great dividends for the
future. Read the full article here.
by Scott Robinson, Fed/State Intern
 Office of Federal/State Partnership
Deadline, May 1, 2018
State Humanities Council General Operating Support Grants
Updated guidelines have now been posted.
Other upcoming NEH Grant Deadlines include:
Division of Preservation & Access
Deadline May 31, 2018
Common Heritage
NEH’s “Common Heritage” program
supports community digitization and outreach events to increase public
awareness and stewardship of heritage collections held by the public.
America’s cultural heritage is preserved not only in libraries, museums,
archives, and other community organizations, but also in all of our homes,
family histories, and life stories. The Common Heritage program aims to capture
this vitally important part of our country’s heritage and preserve it for
future generations. NEH has posted new guidelines here. Applications are
due on May 31, 2018.
Deadline - September 18, 2018
Documenting Endangered Languages
Division of Public Programs
Deadline August 8, 2018
Media Projects: Development Grants
Media Projects: Production Grants
Public Humanities Projects
Division of Education Programs
Deadline June 26, 2018
Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges
Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Humanities Initiatives at Tribal Colleges and Universities
Deadline September 18, 2018
Humanities Connection Planning Grants
Humanities Connection Implementation Grants
 Collecting and sharing evidenced-based outcomes about
reach and impact is at the core of non-profit success. However, according to Creating a Data Culture from Stanford Social Innovation Review, while "75 percent of nonprofits collect data, only 6 percent feel they are using it effectively." NEH’s Office of Federal State Partnership and our
State Humanities Council partners are a community of learners who work together
to gather information in order to weave a narrative about the power of the
humanities – at the local, state, regional, and national levels. We look
forward to working Councils and other partners to develop new and effective strategies
for quantitative and qualitative data sharing.
 From L to R: Jodi Graham, Utah Humanities and Anthony Poore, New Hampshire Humanities
The Office of Federal/State Partnership is delighted to welcome new Executive Directors in Utah and New Hampshire. Click on their names to read their bios. We wish Jodi and Anthony great success in their new roles!
Utah Humanities - Jodi Graham, Executive Director
New Hampshire Humanities - Anthony Poore, Executive Director
Click here to listen/read a recent interview that Anthony conducted with New Hampshire Public Radio, NHPR
 From L to R: Meg Ferris McReynolds, Michael L. Chambers, II, Scott Robinson, Isabelle Lopez, Shirley Newman, and Karen Kenton
The Office of Federal/State Partnership
would like to express special thanks to winter/spring intern Isabelle Lopez. An
anthropology major at University of California, Riverside, Isabelle made many
valuable contributions to our communications and research efforts. We would
also like to welcome intern Scott Robinson, who is pursuing a Master’s degree
in history at George Mason University. Scott, who has been with us since the
beginning of March, has been working on various reports and feature articles highlighting
state council programs, including this edition which explores prison education programs.
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