About MHC Grants

Conversations about complex issues are too often reduced to sound bites in the popular media or short opinion pieces in a newspaper. These formats do not always present the opportunity to explore the deeper history, thinking and traditions that are often intertwined with the different sides of an issue.

MHC provides grants to nonprofit organizations to fund projects that use the humanities to engage Marylanders in discussions. Grant categories and criteria encourage discussions, forums and other interactive formats using the humanities as the central tools to explore and understand the complexity of an issue.

Examples of the disciplines of the humanities are ancient and modern languages, literature, law, history, philosophy, religion, and the history, theory and criticism of the visual and performing arts. Additional subjects sometimes included in the humanities are technology, anthropology, area studies, communication studies, cultural studies and linguistics.

Goals for the MHC Grant Program include:

• Support public programs that use the humanities as the central resource to engage diverse audiences in discussions about the critical matters in their communities

• Promote high quality public programs that effectively engage Maryland residents

• Support programs throughout Maryland, including projects by institutions and organizations not previously involved with MHC

• Reach the public of Maryland, including audiences and communities (socio-economic, ethnic and geographic) that are not served by other MHC programs

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