Grants at a Glance
HumanitiesDC grant funding supports individuals, groups and organizations who use the humanities to explore the people, cultures, histories, and connections that make DC a vibrant place to be. For Fiscal Year 2023 HumanitiesDC is expecting to fund an estimated one million dollars to approximately 60 grantees. Our planned grant opportunities are as follows (based on available funds):
| GRANT PROGRAM | ELIGIBILITY | INDIVIDUAL AWARDS |
| CYCLE I: WINTER 2022 | ||
| COMMUNITY CULTURE AND HERITAGE PROJECTS (formerly DC Community Heritage Project) | Individuals, community groups, schools/institutions, organizations & local businesses | $10,000 |
| DC ORAL HISTORY COLLABORATIVE (formerly New Oral History Projects) | Individuals, community groups, schools/institutions, organizations & local businesses | $8,000 |
| DC ORAL HISTORY BEYOND THE ARCHIVES (formerly Public Projects and Events) | Individuals, community groups, schools/institutions, organizations & local businesses | $12,000 |
| VISIONS – PROJECTS + EVENTS (This grant now incorporates Festivals & Gatherings and DOCS) | Humanities Practitioners, Schools/institutions, non-profit organizations | $25,000 |
| YOUTH IN THE HUMANITIES (Formerly Soul of the City) | Schools and non-profit organizations who work primarily with children and youth | $25,000 |
| CYCLE II: SPRING 2023 | ||
| CAPACITY BUILDING | Non-profit organizations with a humanities-focused mission and annual budgets of less than $2 million | $25,000 |
| DC ORAL HISTORY COLLABORATIVE EXTENSION GRANT | Eligibility: Open to previous DC Oral History Collaborative Grantees who have successfully completed their project and closed out their grant. Contact Jasper Collier (jcollier@humanitiesdc.org) for details. | $7,000 |
2023 Grant Opportunities
Capacity Building
Support towards capacity building efforts for humanities-based non-profit organizations to help strengthen their abilities to advance their missions.
Amount: $25,000
Submission Date: May 2, 2023
Community Culture &
Heritage Projects
An opportunity for DC residents and groups to capture and share the culture and narratives of their own communities through public humanities projects.
Amount: $10,000
Submission Date: March 14, 2023
DC Oral History Collaborative
Funding, training and support for organizations and individuals interested in conducting oral history projects and becoming part of the Collaborative.
Amount: $8,000
Submission Date: March 14, 2023
DC Oral History
Beyond the Archive
Funding and resources for organizations and individuals interested in using existing oral history collections to produce public humanities projects.
Amount: $12,000
Submission Date: March 14, 2023
Visions – Projects + Events
Support to non-profit organizations, schools, and individual practitioners towards creating or sustaining innovative interpretations of the humanities for the public.
Amount: $25,000
Submission Date: March 14, 2023
Youth in the Humanities
Support towards youth-powered programming for ages 11-19 that uses the humanities as tools to explore critical questions about the world around them.
Amount: $25,000
Submission Date: March 14, 2023
These grant opportunities were supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
Who We Are Funding
| Organization or Individual Name | Amount Awarded | Type of Grant | Wards | Project Name | Project Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Grantees | |||||
| Archaeology in the Community | $25,000 | Capacity Building Grant | All | Sustainable Project Partnerships (Archaeology in the Community) | With a mission to promote the study and public understanding of archaeological heritage, Archaeology in the Community (AITC) serves as a conduit for historically underrepresented groups to gain access to archaeology and the humanities. |
| CapoeiraDC | $25,000 | Capacity Building Grant | 5 | CapoeiraDC | CapoeiraDC teaches a martial art that was developed by fighters against anti-Black racism, providing people with a positive physical and creative outlet, a practice in liberation, exposure to diverse cultures, and community. |
| DACOR Bacon House Foundation | $25,000 | Capacity Building Grant | All | DACOR Bacon House Foundation | The DACOR Bacon House Foundation brings the House and its museum to life as a teaching tool and to build a strong foundation for the expansion of the UDC-DACOR partnership. |
| Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s | $25,000 | Capacity Building Grant | All | Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital | DCEFF is the U.S.’s largest and longest-running showcase for environmental films. |
| FDR Memorial Legacy Committee | $25,000 | Capacity Building Grant | All | FDR Memorial Legacy Committee | The FDR Committee is a citizen-led organization that promotes education about the Memorial, improves inclusion and accessibility for visitors, and preserves the Memorial for future generations. |
| Heurich House Foundation | $25,000 | Capacity Building Grant | All | Building Capacity for Public Educational Humanities Programming | The Heurich House Museum has used its grant to rebuild its public educational program capacity, which was decimated by COVID. |
| KAMA DC | $24,963 | Capacity Building Grant | All | KAMA DC | Founded in 2016, KAMA DC provides immigrants from more than 50 countries with a platform to share their skills and stories. |
| Live It Learn It | $25,000 | Capacity Building Grant | 1; 4; 5; 6; | Live It Learn It | Live It Learn It partners with local Title I public schools and cultural institutions to create and deliver experience-driven learning opportunities for students. |
| Mikva Challenge DC | $25,000 | Capacity Building Grant | All | Mikva Challenge DC | Mikva Challenge DC develops youth to be empowered, informed, and active citizens promoting a just and equitable society. Mikva DC partners with teachers to provide opportunities for students to engage in real-life democratic experiences outside of the classroom. |
| National Building Museum | $25,000 | Capacity Building Grant | 6 | National Building Museum | The National Building Museum is the country’s only cultural institution illuminating what, how, and why we build. |
| One Common Unity | $25,000 | Capacity Building Grant | All | One Common Unity | One Common Unity breaks cycles of violence and builds compassionate, healthy communities through the transformative power of music, arts, and peace education. |
| Reading Partners | $25,000 | Capacity Building Grant | 1; 4; 5; 6; | Reading Partners’ One-On-One Literacy Tutoring for 700 DC Youth | Reading Partners helps children become lifelong readers by empowering communities to provide individualized instruction with measurable results. |
| Shout Mouse Press | $25,000 | Capacity Building Grant | 1; 4; 5; 6; | Shout Mouse Press / Development Assessment & Strategy | Shout Mouse Press is a writing and publishing program dedicated to amplifying underheard and marginalized youth voices. |
| Studio Acting Conservatory | $25,000 | Capacity Building Grant | All | The Last Supper Sculpture at Studio Acting Conservatory: Public Access | Studio Acting Conservatory has been a leader in theater education in the DC area since 1975. During a 2019 renovation of its building, a bas relief sculpture of the Last Supper, created in the early 1980s and depicting Jesus and his disciples as African American men, was discovered. With this grant, the Conservatory has been able to preserve and share the sculpture with the public. |
| The MusicianShip | $25,000 | Capacity Building Grant | All | The MusicianShip | The MusicianShip’s mission is to change lives by facilitating music lessons, experiences, and opportunities to benefit those who need it most. This funding supports the DC Funk Festival and the Wammie Awards. |
| Washington Arts Ensemble | $25,000 | Capacity Building Grant | All | Washington Arts Ensemble | Through this grant, the Washington Arts Ensemble has been able to offer more concerts at a variety of venues, increase its presence in all wards of DC, create more partnerships with other arts organizations, and engage in rich and diverse programming to empower and resonate with all members of the community. |
| Woman’s National Democratic Club Educ | $25,000 | Capacity Building Grant | 1; 2 | WNDC Educational Foundation | Through this grant, WNDC has been able to build its capacity by enhancing the effectiveness and reach of its web presence, and preserving and providing meaningful access to the array of resources related to the past 100 years of women’s history. |
| Words Beats and Life, Inc | $25,000 | Capacity Building Grant | All | Words Beats & Life | Words, Beats & Life, DC’s longest running Hip-Hop-based arts educational non-profit, breaks down those barriers that keep DC’s outstanding young creatives from taking full advantage of the opportunities that come along with living in the Nation’s Capital. |
| Young Playwrights’ Theater | $25,000 | Capacity Building Grant | All | Young Playwrights’ Theater (YPT) | YPT has been able to use this grant to support the establishment of two new part-time Resident Teaching Artist positions. |
| Arts for Our Children, Inc. | $10,000 | DC Community Heritage Project Grant | All | Historic Lee’s Flowers Celebrates 75 years | Through this grant, a documentary has been produced which captures the history of Lee’s Flower and Card Shop, as the oldest continuous family-owned flower business in Washington, DC. |
| DC Murals: Specatacle and Story | $10,000 | DC Community Heritage Project Grant | All | TO THE EAST: THE RISE OF PUBLIC MURALS IN WARDS 7 AND 8 | “To the East” is a retrospective exhibit which focuses on the groundbreaking artists who painted the first public murals east of the river. Drawing on the DC Murals archive, this project presents the stories of these seminal artists and organizations, while engaging those artists still with us to share their stories in their own voices. |
| District of Columbia School of Law Founda | $10,000 | DC Community Heritage Project Grant | All | UDC Law Legacy Project | In honor of UDC Law’s 50th anniversary, UDC Law has partnered with UDC Law alumna and renowned DC photographer Nancy Shia to curate rare photos and stories from the first year of the school’s founding. |
| Georgetown African American Historic Lan | $10,000 | DC Community Heritage Project Grant | All | Georgetown African American Historic Landmark Project and Tour | The mission of the Georgetown African American Historic Landmark Project has been to place 20 plaques and additional markers throughout Georgetown, honoring the enslaved and free African Americans who lived in, worked in, and assisted in building the neighborhood. |
| Miriam Gusevich | $10,000 | DC Community Heritage Project Grant | 3 | Re/Know Reno: a detective story. | This project is a digital detective story where the public, and especially young people, learn about the Fort Reno community, the Black neighborhood displaced in favor of the current park. |
| Rhonda Henderson | $10,000 | DC Community Heritage Project Grant | 4; 5; 7; 8 | “Dap: Past and Present Exploration of the Black Man’s Most Nuanced Gesture” | This is a multi-media project to understand the meaning and complexities of dap in three neighborhoods in DC. This project utilizes first-person interview and photography to document and question the meaning of dap in Congress Heights (SE), Stronghold (NE), and Park View (NW). |
| District of Columbia Arts Center | $35,000 | DC Documentary (DC DOCS) Partnershi | All | 40 Years and Still Running | This documentary film project bears witness to the struggles and humanity of the hundreds of thousands of people from El Salvador who made Washington DC, starting in 1980 – the beginning of the mass exodus fueled by the US-backed war – through 2020. |
| Home Rule Music and FIlm Preservation F | $35,000 | DC Documentary (DC DOCS) Partnershi | 4; 7 | Home Rule Music Festival Documentary (Feature) | This feature-length documentary film examines and explores the Home Rule Music Festival. The documentary illuminates the music and the culture of Washington, DC through exciting on-stage live performances and insightful interviews. |
| Street Sense Inc. | $35,000 | DC Documentary (DC DOCS) Partnershi | All | Homelessly in Love | Homelessly in Love follows the romantic lives of five men and women struggling with housing instability. |
| Video Action, Inc. | $35,000 | DC Documentary (DC DOCS) Partnershi | 1; 2; 3; 5 | Project SING | This film follows three seniors as they emerge as leaders, knock on doors, and attempt to organize their community of elders, proving the power of perseverance, and people taking control of their lives during their “third chapter” of life. |
| 1882 Project Foundation | $12,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | All | Flashback: Oral Histories of DC Chinatown | This project features a digital portal which shares the rich repository of audiovisual oral histories that have been collected by community members over the past fifty years. |
| All Souls Church Unitarian | $7,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | 1; 5 | BLAHC Reflections: Women Take a Seat at the Table | This project preserves and amplifies the voices of the women who were connected to the Brookland Literary and Hunting Club (BLAHC). |
| Asbury United Methodist Church | $7,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | 2 | Asbury United Methodist Church Oral History Project 2022 | This project adds to Asbury’s DC Oral History collection by featuring the voices of senior clergy, including the church’s current and first female senior pastor, along with her two predecessors and two lay people who have long presented and organized Asbury’s music and liturgy. |
| Charvis V. Campbell | $8,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | 4; 6; 8 | Jazz at Westminister Presbyterian Church: The Lived Experiences of DC’s Musicians | This DC Oral History project focuses on the lived and shared experiences of jazz musicians who have performed at Jazz at Westminster Presbyterian Church and who were born, raised, or call DC their home. |
| DC Greens | $8,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | 8 | Oxon Run Park: A Neighborhood History | This project is an archive of the history behind Oxon Run Park and the surrounding neighborhoods of Congress Heights/Bellevue/Washington Highlands. |
| DC Music Summit | $13,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | 4; 5; 6; 7; | “You Gotta Leave DC to Get Love”: Why the DC Music Industry Needs Sustainable Infrastructure | This project features engaging interviews with people dedicated to creating spaces nurturing the careers of DC music industry professionals, especially those from marginalized backgrounds. |
| DC Theater Arts Collaborative | $8,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | 7; 8 | Left Behind: The Forgotten Voices of EOR Mothers Who Have Lost Children to Gun Violence | Anacostia Playhouse’s DC Oral History project features personal and group interviews with Ward 7 and 8 mothers who have lost children to gun violence. |
| Edgewood/Brookland Family Support Coll | $7,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | 5; 6 | A Grassroots Response to a Child Welfare Crisis | This project features the progression in homeless services as an extension of Edgewood/Brookland Family Support Collaborative’s efforts to stabilize families and avoid involvement with the district child welfare system. |
| Eric Eikenberry | $8,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | All | District of Cats: The History of Back Alley Bicycle Racing | This project explores the history behind the phenomenon of “alleycat” meetings: unsanctioned scavenger hunts-turned-races sprung by daring local bike couriers onto DC’s unsuspecting streets. |
| Hola Cultura | $11,800 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | All | DC Dreamers: Our Voices and Stories Podcast | This project shines a light on the lived experiences and contributions of five young immigrants who came to establish their lives in DC. |
| Katharina Hering | $8,337 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | 1; 3; 4; 5; | When Parents United: Parental and citizen advocacy for quality public education in DC, 1970-2010 | This is a collection of oral histories from seven narrators who were central participants in the formation, operation, and support of Parents United for the DC Public Schools between 1980 and 2010. |
| Marshall Heights Community Dev Org | $7,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | 7 | Marshall Heights: Civic Mindedness and Engagement Incarnate, post-DC Home Rule | MHCA captures, validates, and evaluates current events that have defined the Marshall Heights neighborhood by interviewing five local historians. |
| Michael Feldman | $12,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | 2 | Education and Community at School Without Walls: An Intergenerational Perspective | School Without Walls (“Walls”) students created a collection of interviews with alumni from 1970’s and 1980’s classes, with a focus on their experiences during the time that Walls operated as an “alternative school.” |
| Michael Haack | $7,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | All | 1978 Metro Strike Oral History Project | The 1978 wildcat strike helped guarantee that Metro would remain a source of family-sustaining jobs for Black working class Washingtonians. This is a collection of stories from the workers who went on strike, as well as an examination of what it has meant to the people and communities involved and how it can inform workers today. |
| Pacyinz Lyfoung | $13,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | 1 | Newton Street/The Cooperative at 1477& Black Warrior Women | This project features stories from the women who played a leading role in creating, maintaining and expanding affordable housing for Newton Street residents. |
| Rhizome DC | $12,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | 4 | Rhizome DC Oral Histories | The Oral History interviews collected through this prioject explore the building and re-building of arts communities within the context of gentrification and displacement in urban areas. The project includes a short documentary about Rhizome DC and DC’s experimental arts scene. |
| Saaret E. Yoseph | $13,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | 1; 2; 3; 4; | JOURNEYS: ADDIS TO DC | This project documents and preserves stories of migration, acclimation and gentrification, through the eyes of long-time and former residents who helped establish DC’s now well-known and thriving Ethiopian community. |
| Samuel (Sami) Miranda | $8,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | 1; 2; 5; 8 | DC Poetry Scene in the 90s | This is a collection of oral histories and works of the 1990’s poetry scene, concentrated along the U St. corridor, Georgetown and Anacostia, and show a community that supported each other, mentored young writers, and made their way into the world of literature nationwide. |
| Sarah Shoenfeld | $8,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | All | The Marion Barry Oral History Project | This project documents the transformation of DC’s political and social life during the career of four-time Mayor and DC Councilmember Marion Barry. |
| Sari Leigh | $12,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | 7; 8 | Mind, Body and Justice: Voices of Revolutionary Health East of the Anacostia | This project recognizes the key Black voices working to reduce health disparities east of the Anacostia River in Washington DC’s Ward 7 & 8 neighborhoods through health education, medicine, environmental awareness, food activism, and wellness. |
| Street Sense Inc. | $8,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | 2 | In Our Own Voices: Street Sense Media Vendors 2003 to 2023 | This project features stories which focus on the experiences of people who have struggled with homelessness and became Street Sense newspaper vendors. |
| The National Hand Dance Association | $7,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | 7; 8 | “Hand Dance – The Official Dance of DC: Where Do We Go From Here?” | This project explores the evolution of DC’s Hand Dance from the 1950s to today. |
| The WIRE | $8,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | 7; 8 | Women of the W.I.R.E. | This project focuses on the stories of five formerly incarcerated women from Washington, DC returning home during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Vikram Surya Chiruvolu, LGPC, MA, BSC | $10,700 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | 1 | The Legacy of Anti-Racist Banking in Adams Morgan | This project captures how financial discrimination and economic violence in Adams Morgan were overcome through the unwavering resilience of its residents. |
| Women in Film and Video | $12,000 | DC Oral History Collaborative Partnershi | All | Supreme Courts: A Century of DC Baketball | This documentary features interviews from residents about basketball and how it has shaped the city and its culture. |
| Adams Morgan Community Alliance | $17,650 | Festivals and Gatherings Grant | All | Dance Dance rEvolution: Adams Morgan Day Dance Plaza+the Little-Known Legacy of Dance Culture in DC | Through this grant, Adams Morgan Day has been able to shine a light on DC’s dance culture through exhibitions, dance parties, and panel discussions. |
| American University | $25,000 | Festivals and Gatherings Grant | 7; 8 | Anacostia Youth Film and Media Festival | The Anacostia Youth and Media Festival is the first youth-directed festival in the DC area, organized and held in the Anacostia neighborhood. |
| Cultural Tourism DC, Inc. | $25,000 | Festivals and Gatherings Grant | All | WalkingTown DC 2022 | Over 20 years, WalkingTown DC has established itself as one of the most enjoyable ways for a curious person to learn about the nation’s capital. It consists of 70+ walking and biking tours over a nine-day period, guided by people who live and work in DC. |
| Day Eight | $25,000 | Festivals and Gatherings Grant | All | 2023 Arts Journalism Conference – Writing About Theater | This conference focuses on journalism in the realm of theater, including discussions on the need for a more diverse corps of theatrical reviewers. |
| DC Preservation League | $25,000 | Festivals and Gatherings Grant | All | DC Awards for Excellence in Historic Preservation | The DC Awards for Excellence in Historic Preservation honors outstanding preservation projects and exceptional contributions by individuals and organizations that further historic preservation in Washington, DC. |
| High Tea Society | $25,000 | Festivals and Gatherings Grant | All | HTS Anna/Ann Fashion Intel Event | HTS presents a series of discussions on seminal fashion art and fashion history moments in DC. |
| Mosaic Theater Company of DC | $10,000 | Festivals and Gatherings Grant | All | Till Trilogy Reflection Series | The Till Trilogy Reflection Series is a citywide lineup of concerts, readings, panels, and symposiums reflecting on the life and legacy of Emmett Till. |
| Multi-Media Training Institute | $25,000 | Festivals and Gatherings Grant | All | Campaign 72 | Campaign 72 is a four-day performance panel and discussion in the life of Shirley Chisholm, including a play that depicts her run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972. |
| Neighborhood Associates Corporation | $12,500 | Festivals and Gatherings Grant | 7 | “Breaking Ground: Mayfair/Paradise Community History Celebration” | This project explores the legacy of Paradise and Mayfair Mansions, the first housing developments in the District built by Black people for Black people. |
| PEN/Faulkner Foundation | $8,290 | Festivals and Gatherings Grant | All | Voices of Literary DC | Voices of Literary DC is a two-part event built around eight primarily BIPOC writers with DC roots who engage the city in their work. The event focuses on the challenges of giving voice to stories that are unique to DC life. |
| The DC Center For The LGBT Community | $25,000 | Festivals and Gatherings Grant | All | Reel Affirmations: Washington DC’s International LGBTQ Film Festival and monthly film series | This festival and monthly film series honors our LGBTQIA2S+ creatives’ cinematic masterpieces, visions and lifestories through virtual/in person film screenings, director and cast community conversations, and celebrations. |
| Words Beats and Life, Inc | $25,000 | Festivals and Gatherings Grant | All | Words Beats & Life Festival: Jazz and Poetry Edition | This hybrid festival celebrates the intersection of jazz and poetry and includes workshops and performances at venues in various DC neighborhoods such as Shaw and Columbia Heights. |
| Cory Stowers | $5,000 | Humanitini Curator Grant | All | Brick Layers Foundational Artists of the 14TH STREET GRAFFITI MUSEUM | The 14th Street Exterior Graffiti Museum, a new installation curated by Cory L. Stowers, pays homage to the timeline of DC graffiti culture’s evolution. |
| DC Independent Film Festival | $5,000.00 | Humanitini Curator Grant | 1; 2; 4; 5 | LOL: Muslim-American Women challenging stereotypes with comedy | This Humanitini features speakers who discuss ways in which Muslim-American women have been represented and misrepresented, how they now represent themselves, and how comedy can take on these issues. |
| FolaSade Pyne | $5,000 | Humanitini Curator Grant | All | Gentrification: The American Dream or the Neighborhood Nightmare? | This Humanitini digs into the root causes of gentrification, who benefits from it, and how to create a path forward that serves the natives of the city and newer residents. |
| Jessica Phillips-Silver | $5,000 | Humanitini Curator Grant | All | DC’s Go-go rhythms: a source of brain growth and community connection | This Humanitini examines the role of complex rhythms in children’s brain development, healing and community building through an exposition and conversation with two leading women in go-go scholarship, education and performance. |
| Jordan Campbell | $5,000 | Humanitini Curator Grant | All | Creative Justice: The Local & National Impact of DC Youth Artist-Activists | This Humanitini explores the strengths, challenges, and impacts experienced by the DC youth during social justice movements in recent years, primarily centering the conversation on Summer 2020’s racial justice movement. |
| Patrise Holden, PhD | $5,000 | Humanitini Curator Grant | 6; 7; 8 | Dancing With Myself: A Conversation on Music, Mood, and Our Mental Health | This Humanitini takes a closer look at how our feelings, attitudes, identity, and mood are shaped by music, and challenges participants to discuss the short- and long-term effect that music has had on their lives and mental health. |
| Paul Marengo | $4,962 | Humanitini Curator Grant | All | LGBTQ Bars – Beyond Drinking There is Community! | This Humanitini examines how a sense of community can be found in drinking establishments; how bars provide a social outlet; and how bars and clubs allow individuals in the LGBTQ community to be who they are without exploitation and/or prosecution. |
| Sheila Walker | $4,875 | Humanitini Curator Grant | 4; 5 | Crossroads: Recreating African Spirituality for the Screen | This Humanitini features case studies and films as part of a discussion centered on the dilemmas faced by artists who utilize African themes in various forms of media. |
| CapitalBop, Inc. | $20,000 | SHARP Emergency Relief Grant | All | CapitalBop, Inc. | CapitalBop is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes, presents and preserves jazz in the DC area. |
| Critical Exposure | $30,000 | SHARP Emergency Relief Grant | 1; 4; 5; 7; | Critical Exposure | Critical Exposure (CE) trains DC youth of color to harness the power of photography and their own voices to fight for education equity and social justice. |
| Day Eight | $20,000 | SHARP Emergency Relief Grant | All | Day Eight | Day Eight engages communities through the arts specifically the production, publication, and promotion of creative projects including a magazine, poetry, an arts journalism fellowship, local history projects, and the publication of art books. |
| DC Arts and Humanities Education Collab | $30,000 | SHARP Emergency Relief Grant | All | DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborativ | The DC Collaborative’s mission is to advance equitable access to learning opportunities in the arts and humanities for all, especially students in DC’s low-income neighborhoods. |
| Dumbarton Arts & Education | $30,000 | SHARP Emergency Relief Grant | 7; 8 | Dumbarton Arts & Education | Dumbarton Arts & Education presents programs that promote diversity, community, accessibility, and a love of music and learning throughout Washington, DC. |
| Heurich House Foundation | $30,000 | SHARP Emergency Relief Grant | All | Heurich House Foundation | The Heurich House Museum’s mission is to explore the American Dream ethos through the stories surrounding Christian Heurich and his historic Washington, DC brewery, and to create a path to success for today’s local small-scale manufacturers. |
| Historical Society of Washington, DC | $40,000 | SHARP Emergency Relief Grant | All | Historical Society of Washington, DC | Established in 1894, the Historical Society of Washington, DC, now the DC History Center, is one of the city’s oldest civic organizations. Its mission is to deepen understanding of DC’s past to connect, empower, and inspire. |
| Hola Cultura | $20,000 | SHARP Emergency Relief Grant | All | Hola Cultura | Hola Cultura’ s mission is to construct innovative pathways to success for the Latino community while fostering society’s demand for the arts and Hispanic cultural initiatives. |
| Live It Learn It | $30,000 | SHARP Emergency Relief Grant | 1; 4; 5; 6; | Live It Learn It | Live It Learn It partners with Title I (high poverty) public schools in DC and local cultural institutions to create and deliver experience-driven learning opportunities for students. |
| One Common Unity | $40,000 | SHARP Emergency Relief Grant | All | One Common Unity | One Common Unity breaks cycles of violence and builds compassionate communities through the transformative power of music, arts and peace education. Programs blend arts and culture with best practices in social-emotional learning, mental health care, and youth development to meet the needs of DC’s underserved youth. |
| One World Education | $30,000 | SHARP Emergency Relief Grant | All | One World Education | One World Education’s mission is to create writers with voice, knowledge, and purpose. Their vision is for all DC students to be effective writers and public speakers. |
| President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldier | $40,000 | SHARP Emergency Relief Grant | All | President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldiers’ Ho | President Lincoln’s Cottage is a historic site, National Monument, and museum located in Washington, DC. Through innovative guided tours, exhibits, and programs, it uses Lincoln’s example to inspire visitors to be civically engaged today. |
| Project Create | $30,000 | SHARP Emergency Relief Grant | 7; 8 | Project Create | Project Create’s mission is to provide opportunities for creative youth development through accessible, multidisciplinary arts education that amplify participants’ voices. |
| Reading Partners | $40,000 | SHARP Emergency Relief Grant | 1; 4; 5; 6; | Reading Partners | The mission of Reading Partners is to help children become lifelong readers by empowering communities to provide individualized instruction with measurable results. |
| Street Sense Inc. | $30,000 | SHARP Emergency Relief Grant | All | Street Sense Inc. | Street Sense Media’s mission is to end homelessness in the Washington, DC area by empowering people in need with the skills, tools, and confidence to succeed. |
| The MusicianShip | $40,000 | SHARP Emergency Relief Grant | All | The MusicianShip | The MusicianShip’s mission is to change lives by facilitating music lessons, experiences, and opportunities to benefit those who need us most. |
| WNDC Educational Foundation | $20,000 | SHARP Emergency Relief Grant | All | WNDC Educational Foundation | The WNDC Educational Foundation is dedicated to educating the public on the history of the women’s rights movement, the achievements and contributions of women, and preservation of the Whittemore House museum, its history, and contents. |
| Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Found | $20,000 | SHARP Emergency Relief Grant | All | Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation | The mission of the Hurston Wright Foundation is to discover, mentor, and honor Black writers. |
| African American Music Association | $18,345 | Special DC Documentary (DC DOCS) P | All | A Hidden Jim: Jimmy McPhail | This documentary tells the story of Jimmy McPhail, a DC-based jazz and blues music icon shared the stage with some of the world’s biggest artists, such as Duke Ellington, Pearl Bailey and Billie Holiday. |
| African American Music Association | $18,345 | Vision Partnership Grant | All | The Nation’s Capital: Doo-Wop From the Street Corner to the Stage-2? | This project is an interactive multimedia website exhibit featuring Doo-Wop vocal groups and solo artists from DC whose harmonies ushered in the sounds and performance styles of early Rhythm and Blues from 1948-1960. |
| All Souls Housing Corp | $24,492 | Vision Partnership Grant | All | Mapping Segregation in Washington DC – Early Houses of Worship | This ongoing project is creating a central repository for DC digital historical maps at the DC History Center, 2) rebuilding one or more Mapping Segregation projects on a new platform, and 3) completing a new mapping project that documents and visualizes historic houses of worship in DC. |
| CapitalBop, Inc. | $30,000 | Vision Partnership Grant | All | CapitalBop’s 2nd Annual NEXTfest Humanities Program | This event includes a six-hour humanities symposium and education program focused on jazz, funk and go-go, and their role in DC culture more broadly. |
| Dance Institute of Washington | $30,000 | Vision Partnership Grant | All | Ancestral Reflections: Telling the History of Dance Institute of Washington’s The Spirit of Kwanzaa | This project features artists and students working with scholars to research the cultural heritage of Kwanzaa and chronicle the Dance Institute of Washington’s decades-long history of Spirit of Kwanzaa productions on DC stages. |
| DC Jazz Festival | $30,000 | Vision Partnership Grant | All | 2022 DC: A Jazz City Video Series | “DC: A Jazz City” chronicles more than 70 years of jazz-making told by DC artists, broadcasters, and jazz specialists who make DC home. |
| Empower DC | $30,000 | Vision Partnership Grant | All | DC Legacy Project: Barry Farm-Hillsdale | “DC Legacy Project: Barry Farm-Hillsdale” is a series of events dedicated to memorializing the generations of people who lived in and were displaced from the Barry Farm-Hillsdale neighborhood. |
| One World Education | $30,000 | Vision Partnership Grant | All | The One World High School Academy and Challenge Event | One World Education’s One World Academy is a 10-week afterschool program for 10th and 11th graders which prepares them for college-level writing and a public showcase of their work. |
| Pictures on Silence | $30,000 | Vision Partnership Grant | All | Todd Duncan: A Program of Poetry and Music | This program features poetry, music, and narration to highlight the life and contributions of Todd Duncan, a DC native and the first Porgy in Gershwin’s famous opera “Porgy and Bess.” |
| The Catholic University of America | $29,592 | Vision Partnership Grant | All | Digital Guide to Medieval DC | “Digital Guide to Medieval DC” is a public-facing online resource geared towards educating K-12 and undergraduate students about the Middle Ages through DC-based sites, objects, and events. |
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