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Grants Overview

The Arizona Humanities Council (AHC) supports innovative, community-based projects and partnerships that use history, literature, philosophy, and the other humanities disciplines to strengthen and enhance civic life across Arizona in the following areas of emphasis:

  • Cultural heritage development
  • Cultural literacy
  • Civil discourse on timely social and cultural issues

AHC welcomes proposals from a wide range of nonprofit organizations and encourages projects that are innovative in their approach toward the humanities and public programming. We especially encourage projects that:

  • Encourage critical thinking and community conversation
  • Promote public interaction with humanities scholarship
  • Employ innovative, accessible public programming formats, including but not limited to:
    • Interactive lectures and discussions
    • Exhibits
    • Publications
    • Public broadcasts, online or radio
    • Film
    • Audio and visual products

AHC offers three different types of grants: