2024
Public Program Grants
In May 2024, Oregon Humanities awarded $102,005 in funding to thirteen organizations in support of programs that explore challenging questions and strive for just communities. We are grateful to this year’s grant review committee, which consisted of board members, staff members, and community members from different parts of the state.
Black Cultural Initiative (Eugene) - $10,000
Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland (Wallowa) - $10,000
Oregon Remembrance Project (Portland) - $10,000
Rogue Action Center (Phoenix) - $10,000
Natives of One Wind Indigenous Alliance/Red Earth Descendants (Ashland) - $9,000
Community Alliance of Lane County (Eugene) - $8,500
Conexión Fénix (Otis) - $8,500
Anima Mundi Productions (Phoenix) - $7,500
Springfield Public Library Foundation (Springfield) - $7,000
RASIKA Society for Arts of India (Hillsboro) - $6,375
Chehalem Cultural Center (Newberg) - $5,130
Historic Alberta House (Portland) - $5,000
Wallowa Land Trust (Enterprise) - $5,000
Mini Grants for Rural Libraries
In February 2024, Oregon Humanities awarded a total of $48,012 in grant funding to rural and rural-serving libraries. This funding allowed libraries across Oregon to create and host humanities events that were meaningful to their communities. Our 2024 theme for this grant is Fear and Belonging.
Bandon Public Library (Bandon) - $3,000
North Plains Public Library (North Plains) - $5,000
Columbia Gorge Community College Library and Learning Commons (The Dalles) - $5,000
Cottage Grove Public Library (Cottage Grove) - $3,500
Harney County Library Foundation (Burns) - $2,400
Josephine Community Library Foundation (Grants Pass) - $5,000
Lane Library District (Creswell) - $2,500
McMinnville Public Library (McMinnville) - $3,620
Mt. Angel Public Library (Mt. Angel) - $5,000
Oregon City Library (Oregon City) - $4,163
Union Carnegie Public Library (Union) - $3,829
Willamina Public Library (Willamina) - $5,000
2023
Public Program Grants
In May 2023, Oregon Humanities awarded $100,000 in Public Program Grant funding to sixteen organizations in support of programs that explore challenging questions and strive for just communities.
Comunidad y Herencia Cultural (Springfield) - $10,000
League of Women Voters of Oregon (Salem) - $8,152
Anima Mundi Productions (Phoenix) - $7,500
Profile Theatre (Portland) - $7,500
Oregon Coast Council for the Arts (Newport) - $7,500
Media-Rites (Portland) - $7,500
Bridgeworks Oregon (Portland) - $7,500
Astoria Visual Arts (Astoria) - $7,090
Lane Arts Council (Eugene) - $6,000
Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center (Corvallis) - $5,600
Josephy Center for Arts and Culture (Joseph) - $5,300
Arts Council of Pendleton (Pendleton) - $5,000
RASIKA (Hillsboro) - $5,000
The UPRISE Collective (Portland) - $4,427
Cascade Educational Broadcast Service / XRAY.FM (Portland) - $4,181
Lincoln City Cultural Center (Lincoln City) - $1,750
Consider This Mini Grants for Rural Libraries
In March 2023, Oregon Humanities awarded $11,810 in Consider This Mini Grants for Rural Libraries. These grants enabled Oregon libraries to create and host their own Consider This events on the theme People, Place, and Power.
Columbia Gorge Community College Library and Learning Commons (Hood River) - $3,810
Toledo Public Library (Toledo) - $6,000
Harrisburg Public Library (Harrisburg) - $2,000
2022
Public Program Grants
In May 2022, Oregon Humanities awarded $115,028 in grants to 18 organizations around the state. These grants supported programs that brought people together to explore challenging questions and strive for just communities.
Coalicion Fortaleza (Medford) - $10,000
Southern Oregon Film Society (Ashland) - $7,500
Edúcate Ya (Portland) - $7,500
Rogue Valley Mentoring (Medford) - $5,200
Cerimon House (Portland) - $7,500
Chehalem Cultural Center (Newberg) - $3,788
Nurturely (Eugene) - $7,500
KXCJ-LP (Cave Junction) - $7,500
The UPRISE Collective (Beaverton) - $3,840
Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative (Portland) - $4,410
The Vanport Mosaic (Portland) - $7,500
Portland Playhouse (Portland) - $6,690
The Father's Group (Bend) - $7,500
Portland Chinatown Museum (Portland) - $7,500
The Red Door Project (Portland) - $7,500
Open Hearts Open Minds (Portland) - $4,600
Tower Theatre Foundation (Bend) - $5,000
The Geezer Gallery (Portland) - $4,000
Consider This Mini Grants for Rural Libraries
In March 2022, Oregon Humanities awarded $24,000 in grants to eight libraries in Oregon. This funding was intended to enable Oregon libraries to create and host their own Consider This events on the theme American Dreams, American Myths, American Hopes.
Josephine County Library Foundation (Grants Pass) - $4,000
Newport Public Library (Newport) - $3,000
Seaside Public Library (Seaside) - $4,000
Silver Falls Library District (Silverton) - $693
Southern Wasco County Library (Maupin) - $4,000
Forest Grove City Library (Forest Grove) - $1,250
Deschutes Public Library Foundation (Bend) - $4,000
Jackson County Library District - $3,057
2021
COVID-19 Emergency SHARP Grants
In November 2021, Oregon Humanities awarded $717,000 in grants to sixty nonprofit organizations and federally recognized Native American tribes in Oregon. This funding was a part of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, distributed by the National Endowment for the Humanities. It was intended to help the humanities community recover from the economic burdens of the pandemic and to enable the reopening of humanities institutions and programs.
Albany Regional Museum (Albany) - $20,000
Arts Council of Pendleton (Pendleton) - $8,000
Baker Heritage Museum (Baker City) - $10,000
Barnstormers Theatre (Grants Pass) - $5,000
Beaverton Downtown Association (Beaverton) - $5,000
Bridgeworks Oregon (Portland) - $20,000
Brooks Historical Society (Gervais) - $3,000
Burns Paiute Tribe (Burns) - $19,800
Campus Compact of Oregon (Portland) - $17,500
XRAY.FM (Portland) - $4,500
Chehalem Cultural Center (Newberg) - $17,500
Comunidad y Herencia Cultural (Springfield) - $20,000
Coos History Museum (Coos Bay) - $10,000
Curry Coast Community Radio (Brookings) - $7,500
Disability Art and Culture Project (Portland) - $15,000
Drexel H. Foundation (Vale) - $15,000
Art Center East (La Grande) - $19,800
Fishtrap (Enterprise) - $10,000
Friends of the Cascade Locks Historical Museum (Cascade Locks) - $10,000
Friends of Tryon Creek (Portland) - $4,500
Future Prairie (Portland) - $10,000
Garibaldi Maritime Museum (Garibaldi) - $7,500
Harney County Library Foundation (Burns) - $14,100
Hood River County Heritage Council (Hood River) - $10,000
Japanese American Museum of Oregon (Portland) - $10,000
Jim Pepper Native Arts Council (Portland) - $15,000
Josephine County Historical Society (Grants Pass) - $7,500
Juneteenth OR (Gresham) - $15,000
KXCR Community Radio Partners (Florence) - $7,500
Lincoln City Cultural Center (Lincoln City) - $10,000
Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center (Joseph) - $15,000
MediaRites (Portland) - $5,300
Mid-Valley Literacy Center (Salem) - $10,000
Milton-Freewater Neighborhood Senior Center (Milton-Freewater) - $4,000
Milagro (Portland) - $20,000
Natives of One Wind Indigenous Alliance/Red Earth Descendant (Ashland) - $12,750
NW Documentary (Portland) - $13,500
O’Brien Memorial Library (Blue River) - $6,000
Oregon Black Pioneers (Salem) - $15,000
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education (Portland) - $17,500
Polk County Historical Society (Rickreall) - $3,750
Portland Indigenous Marketplace (Portland) - $10,000
Profile Theatre (Portland) - $15,000
Rural Organizing Project (Cottage Grove) - $17,500
Salem Art Association (Salem) - $14,750
Santiam Heritage Foundation (Stayton) - $5,000
Singing Creek Educational Center (Cottage Grove) - $10,000
St. Vincent de Paul Dual Immersion School (Salem) - $20,000
The Hearth (Ashland) - $10,000
The Immigrant Story (Portland) - $17,000
The Josephy Center for Arts and Culture (Enterprise) - $12,500
The Red Door Project (Portland) - $17,500
The Skanner Foundation (Portland) - $20,000
Tillamook County Pioneer Museum (Tillamook) - $5,000
triangle productions (Portland) - $20,000
UC-VEG (Roseburg) - $10,000
Vanport Mosaic (Portland) - $10,000
Wallowa Band Nez Perce Trail Interpretive Center (Wallowa) - $15,000
Women's Civic Improvement League - KPOV High Desert Community Radio (Bend) - $6,250
World Arts Foundation (Portland) - $10,000
Responsive Program Grants
In September 2021, Oregon Humanities awarded $5,925 in grants to three nonprofit organizations in Oregon. These grants supported programs that addressed urgent or timely issues in Oregon communities.
Anita (Astoria) - $2,000
KXCJ (Cave Junction) - $1,925
Beyond Boom & Bust (Cave Junction) - $2,000
Public Program Grants
In February 2021, Oregon Humanities awarded $100,000 in grants to 17 nonprofit organizations from around the state. These grants supported programs that brought people together to think and talk about challenging issues and ideas and support communities to adapt to new ways of doing public programs.
Architectural Heritage Center (Portland) - $5,075
Ascension School Camp and Conference Center (Cove) - $8,695
Astoria Visual Arts (Astoria) - $4,750
BASE Southern Oregon (Medford) - $7,500
Bridgeworks Oregon (Portland) - $2,500
Casa Latinos Unidos (Corvallis) - $5,100
Japanese American Museum of Oregon (Portland) - $7,500
Juniper Pine Project (McKenzie) - $2,500
KXCJ-LP (Cave Junction) - $7,500
Next Up (Portland) - $7,500
On the Inside (Portland) - $5,000
PassinArt: A Theatre Company (Portland) - $4,500
Portland Chinatown History Foundation/Portland Chinatown Museum (Portland) - $7,500
Portland Playhouse (Portland) - $6,000
Rural Development Initiatives (Coburg) - $5,000
Signal Fire (Portland) - $2,500
The Vanport Mosaic (Portland) - $7,238
Responsive Program Grants
The Rosewood Initiative (Portland) - $2,000
Umpqua Valley Habitat for Humanity (Roseburg) - $1,000
Future Prairie (Portland) - $2,000
Echo Mountain Fire Relief (Otis) - $2,000
Muslimahs United (Beaverton) - $2,000
2020
Public Program Grants
In February 2020, Oregon Humanities awarded $60,000 in grants to 10 nonprofit organizations from around the state. These grants supported programs that brought people together to think and talk about challenging issues and ideas and support communities during the difficult transitions and circumstances created by the pandemic.
Lake County Resource Initiative (Lakeview) - $7,356
Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center (Joseph) - $4,950
Warm Springs Community Action Team (Warm Springs) - $7,125
Division Midway Alliance (Portland) - $2,800
World Stage Theatre (Troutdale) - $7,500
The Immigrant Story (Hillsboro) - $3,000
Columbia River Creative Initiatives (Portland) - $8,906
Street Roots (Portland) - $3,750
Hood River County Heritage Council (Hood River) - $4,050
Community Alliance of Lane County (Eugene) - $7,500
Responsive Program Grants
Centro Cultural (Cornelius) - $1,000
Central Oregon Community College Foundation (Bend) - $1,000
Resolutions NW (Portland) - $1,000
Native American Arts and Cultures (La Pine) - $1,000
APANO (Portland) - $1,000
Clatsop County Historical Society (Astoria) - $1,000
Nightingale Gallery (La Grande) - $1,000
Klamath Falls City Schools (Klamath Falls) - $1,000
SE Uplift (Portland) - $1,000
Juneteenth Oregon (Gresham) - $1,000
PLAYA (Summer Lake) - $1,000
Rogue Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (Ashland) - $1,000
East Portland Neighbors (Portland) - $1,000
Tower Theatre Foundation (Bend) - $1,000
World Muse (Bend) - $1,000
2019
Public Program Grants
In 2019, Oregon Humanities awarded $60,000 in grants to eleven nonprofit organizations from around the state.
Drexel H. Foundation (Vale) - $4,500
Momentum Alliance (Portland) - $7,500
KSKQ Community Radio (Ashland) - $3,000
Oregon Rural Action (La Grande) - $5,000
PLAYA (Summer Lake) - $6,000
Portland Meet Portland (Portland) - $3,500
RiverStars Performing Arts (Cave Junction) - $8,000
Sexual Assault Resource Center (Beaverton) - $7,500
Skate Like a Girl (Portland) - $5,000
Southern Oregon Guild of Artists and Artisans (Kerby) - $3,000
Vanport Mosaic (Portland) - $7,000
Responsive Program Grants
Projects that received Responsive Program Grant funds from November 1, 2018 through September 30, 2019.
Airlie Press (Hillsboro) - $1,000
Josephy Center for Arts and Culture (Joseph) - $1,000
Community Alliance of Lane County (Eugene) - $1,000
Resolutions Northwest (Portland) - $1,000
Portland Chinatown Museum (Portland) - $1,000
MediaRites Productions (Portland) - $1,000
Untangled (Tigard) - $1,000
St. Johns Center for Opportunity (Portland) - $1,000
Impact NW (Portland) - $1,000
Baker County Community Literacy Coalition (Baker City) - $1,000
El Programa Hispano Católico (Gresham) - $1,000
Eugene Opera (Eugene) - $1,000
Wisdom of the Elders, Inc. (Portland) - $1,000
Ross Ragland Theatre (Klamath Falls) - $1,000
Presence Collective (Portland) - $1,000
2018
Public Program Grants
In 2018, Oregon Humanities awarded $59,980 in grants to thirteen nonprofit organizations from around the state.
Chinese American Benevolent Association (Eugene) - $5,246
Clackamas County Arts Alliance (Oregon City) - $5,000
Columbia Center for the Arts (Hood River) - $5,000
Fishtrap (Enterprise) - $3,750
Kitchen Commons (Portland) - $3,500
Kitchen Table Democracy (Portland) - $5,000
Know Your City (Portland) - $3,200
The Museum at Warm Springs (Warm Springs) - $7,500
OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon (Portland) - $5,000
Oregon Nikkei Endowment (Portland) - $5,500
The Resilience Project (Corvallis) - $4,554
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology (Otis) - $2,250
The Vanport Mosaic (Portland) - $4,500
Responsive Program Grants
Projects that received Responsive Program Grant funds from November 1, 2017, through September 30, 2018.
Clatsop Community College Foundation (Astoria) - $1,000
Champion Team of Yamhill County (McMinnville) - $1,000
Bridging Our Divide (Salem) - $1,000
Arts Council of Pendleton (Pendleton) - $1,000
Self Enhancement, Inc. (Portland) - $1,000
Little Stone Project (Bend) - $880
Eugene/Springfield NAACP (Eugene) - $1,000
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (Portland) - $1,000
Central Oregon Community College (Bend) - $1,000
Impact NW (Beaverton) - $1,000
High Desert Museum (Bend) - $1,000
2017
Public Program Grants
In 2017, Oregon Humanities awarded $60,000 in grants to thirteen nonprofit organizations from around the state. These grants supported programs that brought people together to think and talk about challenging issues and ideas.
RiverStars Performing Arts (Cave Junction) - $6,000
Boom Arts (Portland) - $5,625
The City Repair Project (Portland) - $5,025
Columbia Slough Watershed Council (Portland) - $9,100
National Alliance for Mental Illness Multnomah (Portland) - $3,000
Newspace Center for Photography (Portland) - $2,000
Oregon Jewish Museum & Center for Holocaust Education (Portland) - $4,750
Portland Playhouse (Portland) - $3,000
Resolutions Northwest (Portland) - $3,000
Crook County Foundation (Prineville) - $3,500
Oregon Black Pioneers (Salem) - $5,000
Willamette Heritage Center (Salem) - $4,000
PLAYA (Summer Lake) - $6,000
Responsive Program Grants
Projects that received Responsive Program Grant funds from November 1, 2016, through October 31, 2017.
We Can Do Better (Portland) - $1,000
Hollywood Theatre and Hare in the Gate Productions (Burns) - $1,000
Age-Friendly Innovators (Jacksonville) - $950
Natives of One Wind Indigenous Alliance — Red Earth Descendants (Ashland) - $500
World Muse (Bend) - $1,000
Adelante Mujeres (Portland) - $750
Portland Chinatown History Foundation (Portland) - $800
Racial Equity Coalition (Rogue Valley) - $1,000
Four Rivers Cultural Center (Ontario) - $1,000
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in programs supported by Oregon Humanities grants do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or Oregon Humanities.
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