Awarded Grants

Delaware Humanities has awarded grants to the following organizations during the past eight months of our 2019 fiscal year.

Vision Grants

• Bowers Beach Maritime Museum, Bowers Beach Buccaneer Bash, $5,000
• The Delaware Contemporary, Immanent Realm: Light, Image, Sound, $7,450.00
• Delaware Theatre Company, Delaware Young Playwrights Festival, $13,908.00
• Joshua M. Freeman Foundation, Rightfully Hers, $10,495.00
• Opera Delaware, Community Conversations (Exploring the Arts through Humanities) and Inside Opera Live, $11,440.00
• The Choir School of Delaware, A Royal Affair: Music Created for or Commissioned by the British Monarchy, $12,120.00
• The University of Delaware, The First People of the First State: Restoring our Ancestral Knowledge, $13,161.00
• Greater Lewes Foundation, History Book Festival 2019, $15,000.00
• Delaware Theatre Company, Delaware Young Playwrights Festival, $15,000.00
• Delaware Art Museum, Picturing Beauty: Celebrating Real Women, $3,850.00
• Cab Calloway Foundation, Yorklyn Storytelling Festival, $15,000.00
• Berkana Center for Media and Education, First State, First Step: Delaware to the Moon, $15,000.00
• Lewes Public Library, 4th Annual Shakespeare Festival, $14,014.00
• One Village Alliance, Raising Kings 2020, $15,000.00

Opportunity Grants

• Rehoboth Art League, Gallery Talks, $2,680.00
• Delaware Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor Weekend Intensive, $1,450.00
• Delaware Art Museum, Mirrors and Windows: Diversity in Children’s Literature, $925.00
• Delaware Academy of Science, Iron Hill Museum Archaeology & Heritage Festival, $2,555.00
• Greater Harrington Historical Society, Memorial Day Celebration, $1,000.00
• City of Harrington, 41st Annual Harrington Heritage Day, $3,000.00
• Laurel Historical Society, Children’s Artwork Scanning Project, $2,550.00
• Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington Writers’ Conference, $2,325.00
• League of Women Voters of Delaware,  We’re the WE in We, The People: Segment 11: “The 19th Amendment”, $1,700
• Delaware Africa Coalition, 2nd Annual Taste of Africa, $3,000.00
• Delaware Community Foundation, Building Opportunity Book Circles, $2,950.00
• Pacem in Terris, Peace Week Delaware Kick off, $3,000.00
• Iron Hill Museum, Iron Hill Powwow, $2,750.00
• Bowers Beach Maritime Museum, Bowers Heritage Day, $2,400.00
• University of Delaware Museums, Library, and Press, My Art Speaks for Both My Peoples, $3,000.00
• Milton Historical Society, Walking into Greatness: Bryan A. Stevenson Public Programs, $3,000.00

Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead Grants 

• Berkana Center for Media and Education, Delaware in Space: Video Oral Histories, $5,000.00
• Lewes Historical Society,  21st Annual Chautauqua: the 1960s in Delaware: A Decade of Turmoil and Transformation,  $2,885.00