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The West Virginia Humanities Council, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, serves West Virginia through grants and direct programs in the humanities. Grants are offered to nonprofit organizations that support educational programming. The Humanities Council recently awarded the following minigrants, which are designed for projects requesting $2,000 or less.
- Bottom Dog Press, Inc. (Ohio County), Keynote Speaker for the Writers Association of Northern Appalachia’s Annual Conference
- Brooke County Library Foundation, American Guerrillas of Mindanao Gone but Not Forgotten, digitization project
- City of Morgantown Department of Arts & Cultural Development (Monongalia County), Rooted in Place: African American History in Morgantown and Monongalia County Exhibition
- Civil War Roundtable of the Mid-Ohio Valley (Wood County), Michael Haynes Combines Research with the Power of Composition, Color and Light to Produce the Gettysburg Project, presentation and discussion
- Clarksburg History Museum (Harrison County), Four County Civil War Tour, bus tour
- Contemporary American Theater Festival, Inc. (Jefferson County), 2027 TalkTheater: Humanities at the Festival, humanities discussions
- The Cultural Foundation of Harrison County, Mtn Craft Film Festival Heritage Screening
- Fort Edwards Foundation (Hampshire County), Visitors Center Historic Signage Reboot, signage
- Glenville State University Foundation (Gilmer County), The Early West Virginia State Folk Festival Recordings Digitization Project
- Greenbrier Historical Society (Greenbrier County), Driving Tour of the Revolutionary War Era in the Greenbrier Valley
- Heart and Hand Outreach Ministries (Kanawha County), The People We Carry: Appalachian Memoir, Portraiture and Children’s Literature, workshops and public presentations
- Homestead Farm Center (Taylor County), Homestead Heritage Immersion Day, discussions and workshops
- Innovative Community Solutions (Jefferson County), Uncovering the Weaver-Gillison House: A Digital Companion to Weaver Gillison House History
- McCoy-McMechen Museum, Inc. (Hardy County), Higher Ground Study Guide
- Potts Chapel Restoration (Mason County), Potts Chapel: Preserving the History and Heritage of a Rural Appalachian Community, oral history, research and digitization project
- Preservation Alliance of West Virginia, Inc. (Marion, Mason and Lewis counties), West Virginia Cemetery Documentation & Preservation Project
- RenewALL, Inc. (Cabell County), Glass Giant: Interpreting the Owens-Illinois Impact in West Huntington, exhibit
- Shepherd University (Jefferson County), Telling Our Story: An Interpretive History Installation at the Shepherdstown Opera House
- Summers County Historical Society, WV 250th Revolutionary War Trails of the Kanawha Valley, research project and community presentations
- Summers County Public Library, Digitization of Microfilm of Newspapers
- West Virginia Foreign Language Teachers Association (Marion County), Fill Your Cup and Level UP! WVFLTA Conference 2026
- West Virginia Mine Wars Museum (Mingo County), In These Hills: The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum Journal
- West Virginia Music Hall of Fame (Kanawha County), West Virginia Music Hall of Fame Induction 2027 Film Vignettes
- West Virginia Public Broadcasting Foundation, Inc. (Cabell and Monongalia counties), Us & Them: Across the Table Before the 2026 Midterm Election, podcasts
- West Virginia University Research Corporation (Monongalia County), Teaching Democracy: Lessons from Early America, lecture and pedagogical materials
- West Virginia University Research Corporation (Monongalia County), Viva Voce Voting in West Virginia, digitization project
For more information about West Virginia Humanities Council grants, contact Grants Administrator Erin Riebe at (304) 346-8500 or via email at riebe@wvhumanities.org. Grant guidelines and applications are available on the Humanities Council website, wvhumanities.org.
