Visual Communications a Recipient of California Humanities CA CARES Grant
/Visual Communications is grateful to be a recipient of the California Humanities CA CARES Humanities Relief and Recovery Grants, providing much-needed funds to assist the public humanities sector across California during the pandemic. Support was also provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), as a result of the CARES Act, and by the State of California through the California State Library.
The funding will support our VC Archives, which includes VC CONNECT, an online destination through which just some of the hundreds of films and media productions created by Visual Communications can be found for your enjoyment.
AN EVENT FROM ONE OF VC’S 2019 PROGRAMS, “CENTERING THE MASSES.” (PHOTO: ABRAHAM FERRER/VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE)
California Humanities awarded $1,556,149 in CA CARES Humanities Relief and Recovery grants to 251 individuals and nonprofit organizations across California, reaching 45 Congressional districts. Awards ranged from $2,000 to $20,000. We received 1,270 applications for these grants, requesting almost $14 million in funding.
Relief grants provide general operating support, through the NEH, to help organizations and practitioners continue their public humanities efforts. Individuals received 150 grants totaling $300,000, and 76 organizations received $1,044,894 in grant support.
Recovery grants provide capacity-building funds, through the California State Library, to assist organizations as they consider new approaches to public humanities programming and organizational strength. California Humanities awarded $211,255 to 25 organizations.
In keeping with California Humanities’ mission to connect Californians to ideas and one another in order to understand our shared heritage and diverse cultures, inspire civic participation, and shape our future, the CA CARES grants support public humanities organizations that have experienced a decrease or loss of revenue, programming opportunities, loss of paid staff, or venues as a result of COVID-19, as well as to humanities practitioners who have been facing financial hardship.
