Humanities North Dakota CARES Grants
The Humanities North Dakota CARES Grant provides unrestricted operating and programming support to cultural organizations who have suffered program financial losses due to COVID-19 in the state of North Dakota. These grants are meant to provide small but more immediate grants to humanities-based cultural organizations to help stabilize organization by providing funds for them to maintain essential public humanities programs and retain core personnel during the current public health crisis and ensure their future success. We anticipate the demand for Humanities North Dakota CARES grants for cultural organizations will exceed the funds we have available. Therefore, the amount funded will be based on the organization’s operating revenues, the panelists’ assessment of the application and the funds available for the program. If an organization is not awarded funding, we will retain their application for consideration should additional funding come available.
Who is eligible?
To be eligible for a Humanities North Dakota CARES Relief Grant, an organization must:
Not eligible for funding - Individuals
The following organizations are not eligible to apply for a COVID-19 Emergency Support Grant:
Funds Cannot be Used For
Funding Support Levels
Level 1: $5,000 – Organizations with operating budgets under $200,000
Level 2: $10,000 – Organizations with operating budgets of $200,000 and over
Level 3: up to $50,000 – Organizations offering a statewide public humanities program in the time of Covid-19 that furthers the mission and/or programs of Humanities North Dakota.
Funds will be disbursed in one complete payment at the beginning of the grant period. All contracts for grants $10,000 and under will be 6 months in length starting at the award decision date. All contracts for grants over $10,000 will be 12 months in length starting at the award decision date.
What’s the deadline to apply?
Applications must be completed online prior to 4:30 PM CST on September 1, 2020.
Applications will be reviewed by a panel and will be awarded based on available funds. Applicants will be notified via email of the application award status.
DUNS Number Requirement
The Data Universal Numbering System or DUNS number is a nine-character number that identifies your organization. It is used to track how federal money is disbursed. To request a new DUNS number you may call 1-866-705-5711, or apply online. There is no charge and most DUNS numbers are created in one to two business days.
If I have questions, who can help me?
Brenna Gerhardt
Executive Director
[email protected]
Who is eligible?
To be eligible for a Humanities North Dakota CARES Relief Grant, an organization must:
- Provide humanities programming to the general public as a significant part of its mission (see humanities defined here).
- Be a public library, museum, a nonprofit organization recognized as a 501(c)(3) by the Internal Revenue Service, or a nonprofit with a formal relationship with a 501(c)(3) organization as their fiscal agent. (check your organization’s IRS status here).
- Be a tribal college or tribal program that substantially involves the humanities.
- Be physically located in North Dakota and have North Dakota residents as its primary audience.
- Have at least one staff member (full or part-time) who is a paid employee of the organization.
- Be experiencing financial hardship due to the effects of the COVID-19. Hardship includes, but is not limited to the reduction, loss or furlough of paid staff or a significant loss of revenue.
Not eligible for funding - Individuals
The following organizations are not eligible to apply for a COVID-19 Emergency Support Grant:
- Religious or primarily faith-based programs or organizations receiving a significant portion of their funding from a religious organization
- Public, private, or parochial schools
- Arts organizations (contact North Dakota Council on the Arts for available funding opportunities)
- Organizations receiving Corporation for Public Broadcasting funds
- For-profit organizations
- Political or advocacy organizations
- Government entities including city, county, and municipal agencies with exception of public libraries and museums
- Individuals
- K-12 institutions
- Universities, colleges, or academic departments (please, apply directly to the National Endowment for the Humanities for funding) NOTE: TRIBAL COLLEGES ARE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY FOR HND CARES GRANT FUNDING
- Organizations that have be awarded a previous HND CARES Grant
Funds Cannot be Used For
- Promotion of a Particular Political, Religious, or Ideological Point of View
- Advocacy of a Particular Program of Social or Political Action
- Support of Specific Public Policies or Legislation
- Lobbying
- Purchase of Land or Facilities, Construction or Renovation
- Organizations that do not have a DUNS Number
- Overlapping Project Costs with any Other Pending or Approved Application(s) for Federal Funding
- Projects that Fall Outside of the Humanities (Including the Creation or Performance of Art; Creative Writing, Autobiographies, Memoirs, And Creative Nonfiction; And Empirically Based Social Science Research or Policy Studies)
Funding Support Levels
Level 1: $5,000 – Organizations with operating budgets under $200,000
Level 2: $10,000 – Organizations with operating budgets of $200,000 and over
Level 3: up to $50,000 – Organizations offering a statewide public humanities program in the time of Covid-19 that furthers the mission and/or programs of Humanities North Dakota.
Funds will be disbursed in one complete payment at the beginning of the grant period. All contracts for grants $10,000 and under will be 6 months in length starting at the award decision date. All contracts for grants over $10,000 will be 12 months in length starting at the award decision date.
What’s the deadline to apply?
Applications must be completed online prior to 4:30 PM CST on September 1, 2020.
Applications will be reviewed by a panel and will be awarded based on available funds. Applicants will be notified via email of the application award status.
DUNS Number Requirement
The Data Universal Numbering System or DUNS number is a nine-character number that identifies your organization. It is used to track how federal money is disbursed. To request a new DUNS number you may call 1-866-705-5711, or apply online. There is no charge and most DUNS numbers are created in one to two business days.
If I have questions, who can help me?
Brenna Gerhardt
Executive Director
[email protected]