When Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), providing $75 million in supplemental funding for cultural institutions affected by the coronavirus, $30 million of that was allocated to state and jurisdictional humanities organizations to support grants to eligible nonprofits for humanities programming and general operating support.
This week's Humanities to Go Online:
Ireland's Great Famine in Irish-American History: Fateful Memory, Indelible Legacy, June 5 at 4 pm (via Zoom)
An important announcement about
CARES Act Funding
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IMPORTANT MESSAGE for our supporters
Anthony Poore, Executive Director, sharing about how New Hampshire Humanities is moving forward with creating and delivering quality humanities content while we weather this storm "together."
Our podcast is now available! The Real Witches of New Hampshire is a three-part series produced in collaboration with New Hampshire Public Radio. Listen to all three episodes HERE
Annual Dinner video: If you weren't able to attend this year's humanities celebration, we invite you to watch the video HERE.
Click here to read more about our Humanities@Work program in NH Business Review.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2020
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Thursday, June 4, 2020
News
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) received $75 Million in supplemental funding to assist cultural institutions and humanists affected by COVID-19 as part of the $2.2 trillion CARES Act economic stabilization plan.
By Lewis Carroll
Read by Neil Gaiman
To our many partners, grantees, supporters, and audience members: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been detected in nearly 100 countries around the globe, and several cases have now been confirmed here in New Hampshire.
"Tell me more..."
The Year of New Voices project of New Hampshire Humanities' Connections program offers a new focus on writing this year. To support students in their writing, the Connections program created Tell Me More: Encouraging and Developing the Voices of English Learners, a handbook of essays on writing with students, reflections on how we write and why we write, and instruction on ways to discover stories and write them with clarity. Read more
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