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Division of Federal/State Partnership National Endowment for the Humanities Application Review Process Grantee Communications Toolkit NEH International Opportunities Workshops, Resources, & Tools Emergency and Disaster Relief Featured NEH-Funded Projects Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence All Divisions and Offices Division of Federal/State Partnership For more information about the Division of Federal/State Partnership: The Division of Federal/State Partnership is the liaison between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the nonprofit network of state and jurisdictional humanities councils.
Fed/State provides general operating support awards to the states and jurisdictions in order to bring humanities education, lifelong learning, and public humanities programming to communities across the country.
Fed/State collaborates with designated state and jurisdictional humanities councils to advance public understanding of the humanities, while enhancing public awareness of, access to, and support for the humanities on a local, grassroots level.
The council community helps the National Endowment for the Humanities realize its two primary strategic goals of advancing knowledge and understanding of the humanities and increasing public awareness of, access to, and support for the humanities throughout the United States. State and Jurisdictional Humanities Councils State and jurisdictional humanities councils are the public humanities in action.
Councils offer a wide array of thought-provoking programming that makes rich humanities ideas accessible for general public audiences, fosters discussion, and promotes civic engagement. The work they do is tailored to the resources, demographics, interests, and concerns of their state or jurisdiction.
Councils sponsor book festivals, literacy campaigns, speaker’s bureaus, teacher development, cultural tourism, humanities publications, films, exhibitions, and Chautauqua performances. They also help extend the reach of NEH-funded projects, and ensure NEH remains connected to local and regional communities.
Through council initiatives and grantmaking, state councils enrich lives through the humanities—with an emphasis on the specific needs of the communities they represent. The Fed/State Partnership By congressional mandate, the National Endowment for the Humanities , an independent federal agency in the executive branch, provides general operating support awards to support public humanities programming in the 56 states and jurisdictions.
Fed/State works with the designated humanities councils in each state and jurisdiction. The councils are Fed/State’s sole awardees. State and jurisdictional humanities councils are independent nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations governed by volunteer boards of directors and staffed by humanities professionals.
They operate, as designated by Congress, in the states as well as in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. The councils employ more than 500 staff members and engage over 1,000 board members. The first councils were founded in 1971 and the last, the American Samoa Humanities Council, was founded in 1994.
All but four councils were founded in the 1970s. The Core Work of Fed/State Fed/State oversees the councils’ congressionally appropriated general operating support grants, carries out on-site consultations and review, provides resources on best practice in nonprofit governance, and maintains network-wide communication.
Fed/State encourages councils to develop and support inclusive, meaningful programming that is grounded in rich, well-vetted humanities content; to engage diverse audiences with humanities ideas, to serve as models of excellent nonprofit management; to maintain open communication, mutual support and collaboration, and shared goals with NEH and other councils; and to exercise responsible and impeccable stewardship of public—and all—funds entrusted to them.
A one-page description of the work of the Office of Federal/State Partnership is available for download. Download a printable version of the contact information for the state and jurisdictional humanities councils. The National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965 is the legislation under which the National Endowment for the Humanities and the state humanities councils operate.
The legislation about state humanities councils is Sec. 956 (sec. 7)(f)(1-7).
Other pertinent sections are: Sec. 951. Declaration of findings and purposes Sec.
956. National Endowment for the Humanities Sec. 959.
Administrative provisions For more information about the Division of Federal/State Partnership: Chronicling America: History American Newspapers Office of the Inspector General Vulnerability Disclosure Policy
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Nonprofit 501(c)(3) state and jurisdictional humanities councils which conform to the requirements of 20 U. S. C. 956(f). See https://www. neh. gov/about/state-humanities-councils. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows recent federal obligations suggest $30,000,000 (2026). Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Yes — Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership is offered by NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES and this listing comes from SAM.gov, an official U.S. federal source. Federal applications generally require registrations (for example SAM.gov or an agency submission portal), so allow extra lead time.
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