Grant lines for Quick Grants, Planning Grants, Implementation Grants, and Capacity Grants are now open for FY19! We look forward to hearing about your projects.
The Connecticut Humanities Fund had a robust FY18. We are grateful to Connecticut legislators and Governor Malloy for their continued support of CTH. For more on our grants, see here.
68 grants made totaling $595,000 in funding awarded, including (titles with links are still ongoing):
| Town | Organization | Title | Grant Type | Award |
| Avon | Avon Free Public Library | From Congregation to Constitution: The separation of church and state in Connecticut | 1818 Grant | $1,250 |
| Bethany | Bethany Library Association – Clark Memorial Library | Small Great Things – A Community Reading Beyond The Cover | Quick Grant | $899 |
| Bloomfield | Connecticut 4 H Development Fund Inc (4H Education Center at Auerfarm) | Auerfarm’s History on Display: A Model Farm, A Retreat and A Place for Learning | Quick Grant | $2,500 |
| Bridgeport | Bridgeport History Center, Bridgeport Public Library | We Are Artists Everyone: The Art Center in Action, 1970-1986 | Implementation | $10,511 |
| Bristol | American Clock & Watch Museum | Scandals & Scoundrels Exhibition | Quick Grant | $1,659 |
| Canterbury | Friends of the Prudence Crandall Museum, Inc. | The Story Will Outlive The Canvas | Quick Grant | $1,500 |
| East Lyme | East Lyme Public Library | 100 Years at The Farm | Quick Grant | $2,899 |
| Essex | Connecticut River Museum | Strategic Planning: Charting a Course for the Connecticut River Museum’s Future | Capacity | $9,999 |
| Essex | Connecticut River Museum | Connecticut River Myths and Legends Project | Implementation | $49,915 |
| Essex | Connecticut River Museum | Thirsty River: Four Centuries of Drink, Life, and Reform in the Connecticut River Valley | Quick Grant | $4,999 |
| Fairfield | Fairfield Historical Society | Revolutionary Spies: Exhibition and Graphic Novel | Quick Grant | $4,000 |
| Fairfield | Fairfield Historical Society | Flappers: Fashion and Freedom Exhibition | Quick Grant | $1,874 |
| Fairfield | Fairfield University | Imagining the Coast: a Public Symposium on the Humanities and the Sea | Quick Grant | $2,500 |
| Farmington | Hill-Stead Museum | Sunken Garden Poetry Festival 2018 | Implementation | $20,000 |
| Guilford | Guilford Preservation Alliance | Witness Stones Project Implementation in Middletown and West Hartford | Quick Grant | $3,000 |
| Haddam | Haddam Historical Society | Revolution Song; A Story of American Freedom Book Discussion by author Russell Shorto | Quick Grant | $1,000 |
| Hamden | CT Trust for Historic Preservation | Enhancing Access Through the Public Digital Humanities: A Freeman Center Capacity Building Initiative | Capacity | $9,999 |
| Hamden | Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum | Making America: The Irish in the Civil War Era | Quick Grant | $4,400 |
| Hartford | Connecticut Historical Society | The Constitution of 1818: Debate and Dissent in the Land of Steady Habits | 1818 Grant | $3,000 |
| Hartford | Connecticut Historical Society | History of Mental Health Care in Connecticut | Planning | $21,225 |
| Hartford | Connecticut Historical Society | Facing War: Connecticut in World War I | Quick Grant | $4,000 |
| Hartford | Connecticut Public Affairs Network | Commemorating the Constitution of 1818 | 1818 Grant | $2,300 |
| Hartford | Connecticut Public Affairs Network | Connecticut History Day | Partnership | $25,000 |
| Hartford | Harriet Beecher Stowe Center | Launching the New Stowe Center Experience | Implementation | $20,000 |
| Hartford | Paul J. Aicher Foundation (dba Everyday Democracy) | Citizen Demos | Quick Grant | $1,800 |
| Hartford | Riverfront Recapture | On Board the Onrust: Bringing Dutch History to the Hartford Riverfront | Quick Grant | $2,500 |
| Hartford | Sankofa Kuumba Cultural Arts Consortium | Emancipation: From the Caribbean To the United States | Quick Grant | $4,999 |
| Hartford | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art | Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s | Implementation | $25,000 |
| Killingly | Quiet Corner Reads | Quiet Corner Reads One Book Program 2018 | Quick Grant | $2,500 |
| Litchfield | Litchfield Historical Society | By the Virtue of its Citizens: Educating a New Nation at Sarah Pierce’s Academy | Quick Grant | $3,720 |
| Middletown | Russell Library Company | Celebrating Black History Month | Quick Grant | $4,720 |
| Middletown | Russell Library Company | Common Ground 2018- The 10th Middletown International Film Festival | Quick Grant | $3,725 |
| Mystic | Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc. | The Vinland Map Exhibition | Implementation | $22,955 |
| Mystic | Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc. | Arts on the Quad – Mystic Seaport Museum’s Summer Evening Program Series | Quick Grant | $4,998 |
| Naugatuck | Naugatuck Historical Society | Town of Dreamers, City of Invention | Planning | $20,000 |
| New Britain | Connecticut League of History Organizations | Connecticut League of History Organizations Partnership | Partnership | $21,500 |
| New Haven | Artspace | Paying Homage: Soil & Site | Planning | $12,075 |
| New Haven | CitySeed, Inc. | Sanctuary Kitchen Community Event Series @ Common Ground: Sí Se Puede-A Screening of “Dolores” & A Global Farm-to-Table Evening | Quick Grant | $3,000 |
| New Haven | New Haven International Festival of Arts & Ideas | The Ideas Program at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas | Implementation | $25,000 |
| New Haven | Yale University/Yale Peabody Museum | EVOLUTIONS Exhibition FY18 “Unsung Heroes” | Quick Grant | $3,000 |
| New London | Connecticut College | One Book, One Region 2018: “Exit West” | Quick Grant | $4,999 |
| New London | Connecticut Storytelling Center | QG-00318 The 37th Annual Connecticut Storytelling Festival & Conference | Quick Grant | $2,000 |
| New London | New London Landmarks | Discrimination, Urban Renewal and New London’s Lost Neighborhood: a Walking and Virtual Tour | Quick Grant | $1,571 |
| Niantic | East Lyme Puppetry Project Inc | “We the People” Preview Showcase | Quick Grant | $2,500 |
| Norfolk | Norfolk Historical Society | Artistic Taste and Marked Skill: The Photography of Marie H. Kendall | Quick Grant | $2,500 |
| Norwalk | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum | Planning for “Bulls of Wall Street: High Finance, Power, and Social Change in Victorian America” | Planning | $20,000 |
| Norwalk | Norwalk Historical Society | Assessment of the Norwalk Potteries Collections at the Norwalk Historical Society for Future Exhibition | Capacity | $3,620 |
| Norwalk | Norwalk Historical Society | Planning for the exhibition “Norwalk’s Changing Communities before 1835” | Planning | $23,000 |
| Norwich | Norwich Free Academy/ Slater Memorial Museum | Re-installation of Asian Art Collection | Planning | $11,985 |
| Old Lyme | Florence Griswold Museum | Art and the New England Farm | Implementation | $25,000 |
| Old Lyme | Florence Griswold Museum | Teaching Poster for “SEE/change” Online Learning Exhibition for Educators and Students of Connecticut History | Quick Grant | $3,750 |
| Old Lyme | Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts | A Living Monument to Cultural Heritage Preservation: Cities of Peace | Quick Grant | $3,250 |
| Salisbury | Salisbury Forum, The | Salisbury Forum Lectures | Quick Grant | $1,000 |
| Southington | Civics First Inc | Online Lesson Plans on the Constitution of 1818 | 1818 Grant | $3,000 |
| Stonington | The Stonington Historical Society | The Rollie McKenna Project | Implementation | $24,966 |
| Torrington | Torrington Historical Society | Torrington and World War I | Quick Grant | $2,750 |
| Waterbury | Mattatuck Historical Society | Audience Research for the Mattatuck Museum | Capacity | $9,999 |
| Waterbury | Mattatuck Historical Society | FRÁGIL Maneje con Cuidado: Bienvenido a los puertorriqueños a nuestra communidad / FRAGILE Handle with Care: Welcome Puerto Ricans… | Quick Grant | $3,000 |
| Waterbury | Shakesperience Productions | Waterbury Interactive: Our City, Our Neighborhoods | Quick Grant | $3,140 |
| West Hartford | Connecticut Explored Inc. | Annotated Poster of the Constitution of 1818 | 1818 Grant | $3,000 |
| West Hartford | Connecticut Explored Inc. | Partnership | Partnership | $13,500 |
| West Hartford | Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford | Exhibit: “The Power of Protest:The Movement To Free Soviet Jews” | Quick Grant | $4,100 |
| Westport | Westport Country Playhouse | Community Engagement events surrounding THOUSAND PINES | Implementation | $20,000 |
| Westport | Westport Historical Society | Rights for All?: Exploring Social Impacts of the 1818 Constitution | 1818 Grant | $1,864 |
| Westport | Westport Historical Society | Exhibit About African American History in Westport | Quick Grant | $3,000 |
| Wethersfield | NSCDA-CT/ Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum | Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum/NSCDA-CT New Interpretation and Orientation Exhibit, Gallery, and Video | Planning | $25,000 |
| Willimantic | Windham Textile & History Museum | Unraveled Threads: Deindustrialization, Postindustrialization, and the Transformation of Connecticut Textile Mill Towns: An Exhibit | Quick Grant | $1,585 |
| Windsor Locks | Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association | 2018 Speaker Series | Quick Grant | $1,000 |
| Total | $595,000 |
