Indiana Humanities is a statewide nonprofit aimed at infusing the humanities into daily life. They do this through grants, discussions, uplifting humanities scholars, spotlighting humanities organizations and activities, and creating their own programs to help Hoosiers think, read, and talk.
Indiana Humanities' Action Grants aim to provide tax-exempt organizations with funds to develop and implement responsive and meaningful humanities programming. The broad goal is to support projects that encourage learning, perspective sharing, idea exchange, and mutual understanding. Preferred projects may range in format from workshops and presentations to reading/discussion programs, exhibitions, and even podcasts or film documentaries, as long as they are public and use the humanities as a core tool for engagement. The humanities are defined broadly but distinctly, including disciplines like history, literature, languages, philosophy, and several others, while explicitly excluding the creation, display, or performance of art. The initiative plans to award 35 to 40 Action Grants within the year.