GRANT PROFILES
DIVERSE FUNDING SUPPORTS OUR MISSION & SEEDS INNOVATION
THE POWER OF BOOKS
THE HEART OF OUR MISSION The National Endowment for the Humanities provides a strong base for the Council in RI.
Earned revenue increases access and sparks dialogue.
CONVERSATION, COMMUNITY, CONNECTION Individual and corporate investment builds bridges.
FY17 Revenue – $934,159 NEH (70.7%) Earned Revenue (9.3%) Individual Gifts & Corporate Sponsorship (10%) Foundation Grants (10%)
STORIES OF RI IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND FY17 Expenses – Over 70% of our resources support grants and programs.
Additional grants support the development of unique programs and tools.
Programs (42.2%) Grantmaking (31%) Fundraising (12.8%) Management (14%)
CELEBRATION OF THE HUMANITIES Each year the Council honors leaders in the humanities, bringing people across Rhode Island together to celebrate the power of the humanities to spark change and catalyze culture. Learn more about the 2017 honorees and how you can get involved in 2018: rihumanities.org/get-involved/celebrate
$178,462 was awarded to 33 grant projects in support of public history, cultural heritage, civic education, and community engagement across the state. Our grants touched the lives of over 37,900 Rhode Islanders MAJOR GRANT AWARDS
PUBLIC PROJECT GRANTS PROVIDENCE PRESERVATION SOCIETY—$10,000 to Why Preserve?
YOUTH IN ACTION—$5,000 to
Corridor Communities
PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY—$10,000 to Edible
to Eternal Rest: Death, Mourning, and Memorials Program Series
HISTORIC NEW ENGLAND—$10,000
TRINITY ACADEMY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS—$2,000 to TAPA/
Schoolyard at Green Animals
to Education Programs at Arnold House
FUSIONWORKS—$10,000 to Moving from Oppression to Empowerment – The Study of Marginalized Groups in Rhode Island
Support for Summer Art Internships
DOCUMENTARY FILM GRANTS
PRESERVE RI / DOORS OPEN RHODE ISLAND—$10,000 to Doors Open Rhode
RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY—$5,000 to Triple Decker,
NEW URBAN ARTS—$10,000 to Scholar
SOUTH COUNTY HISTORY CENTER— $2,000
ArtsLiteracy Curriculum Development Project
FIRSTWORKS—$2,000 to Qyrq Qyz & Forty Girls: Bardic Storytellers from Central Asia ADOPT A DOCTOR—$2,000 to Carve/
Paint: 2 Black Artists at the Racial Divide: Bannister and Prophet in Providence CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM—
Island Festival Programming
A New England Love Story….A Trailer
NEWPORTFILM—$10,000 to newportFILM Outdoors 2017
$2,000 to Aliyah from Rhode Island: A Photo-Text Exhibit and Panel Discussion
MINI GRANT AWARDS
CIVIC EDUCATION GRANTS
MANTON AVENUE PROJECT—$10,000 to The Manton Avenue Project – Out-ofSchool-Time Playwriting for Young People in Olneyville
GRANTS TO ORGANIZATIONS RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY—$1,500 to 2017 Rhode Island
LITTLE COMPTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY—$10,000 to Rethinking the
Docent Symposium
THE SANDRA-FEINSTEIN GAMM THEATRE—$8,682 to The Gamm
BOOKS ARE WINGS—$2,000 to Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives: A Books Are Wings Humanities Curriculum
Wilbor House Tour
Humanities Forums
PRESERVE RI / LIPPITT HOUSE—
$10,000 to How to Be There: An Immersive, Multi-Sensory Experience at Lippitt House Museum PROVIDENCE CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL—$10,000 to 2018 Providence
Children’s Film Festival
UPP ARTS—$7,900 to UPP Arts Archive
RHODE ISLAND LATINO ARTS—
$2,000 to Stories of our Ancestors – Historias de Nuestros Antepasados: Theatrical Monologues. THE COLLEGE CRUSADE OF RHODE ISLAND—$2,000 to The 22nd Annual
Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading
THE PEACE FLAG PROJECT—$2,000 to East Providence Library Peace Flag Project UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND—
CIVIC EDUCATION GRANTS
$2,000 to Phenomenology and the Arts Today
NEW URBAN ARTS / PUSHED LEARNING AND MEDIA—$9,550 to
RHODE ISLAND COMPUTER MUSEUM— $1,830 to A Computer in
Educational Tour of Rhode Island Public Schools Focused on Media, Segregation, and Expression
Your Pocket: Bits and Bytes of History! WEST BROADWAY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION—$2,000 to Learning
About Thomas S. and Vincent Luongo Memorial Square
DAVISVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL—
$1,000 to Smokeless Tobacco: Past, Present, and Me
GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS SUZANNE SCANLAN—$2,000 to Women, Design, and Manufacturing in Rhode Island TAYLOR POLITES—$2,000 to The Cathedral Square of Yesteryear
DOCUMENTARY FILM GRANTS DAVID H. WELLS—
$2,000 to Echoing Histories
CENTER FOR THE BOOK CATALYZING NEWPORT GRANT PROJECT SPECIAL COUNCIL PROGRAMS