CFVI Offers $200,000 in Grants for Humanities

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS — The Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands (CFVI) is offering $200,000 in humanities grants to help organizations that provide humanities-focused programming recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Funding comes through the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the emergency and ongoing funding from the American Rescue Plan.

CFVI will award individual grants of up to $20,000 to facilitate the recovery of humanities programs, such as book festivals, literacy campaigns, speaker’s bureaus, teacher development, cultural tourism, humanities publications, films, exhibitions, and projects that preserve and provide access to cultural and educational resources in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Applicants must indicate how they have been adversely impacted by the pandemic in their applications, consistent with the purposes of the American Rescue Plan.

The deadline to apply is Thursday, September 30, 2021.

For more information on grant requirements or to submit an application, visit cfvi.net or contact Beth Nuttall at bethn@cfvi.net.