Florida Humanities is pleased to announce $36,600 in Community Project Grants to 8 Florida organizations in support of vital humanities programming. In addition to this direct support, each organization presented a cash or in-kind match with their project, bringing an additional $86,154 of revenue to local communities.

Community Project Grants provide up to $5,000 in funding to nonprofits and public institutions across Florida to develop and implement humanities-rich public programs that meet the needs of local communities. At their core, these competitive grants seek to preserve Florida’s diverse history and heritage, promote civic engagement and community dialogue, and provide communities the opportunity to reflect on the future of the Sunshine State.

Florida Humanities, the statewide affiliate to the National Endowment for the Humanities, serves to preserve, promote and share the history, literature, culture and personal stories that offer Floridians a better understanding of themselves, their communities and their state.

The newly awarded grants are listed below, alphabetically by sponsoring organization:

Florida Memorial University, Social Justice Institute (Miami-Dade)
“South Florida Social Justice Common Read (SFSJCR)” – $5,000
The FMU Social Justice Institute will host a speaker series bridging communities in Broward and Miami-Dade counties to foster conversations built on shared reading experiences to better understand and address social injustice and racial disparities.

Old Dillard Foundation (Broward)
“Remembering the Past for Therein Lies the Future Oral Histories Project” – $5,000
The Old Dillard Foundation will film oral histories from Historic Sistrunk Corridor 65+ residents who lived through Broward County segregation and the civil rights movement and host a panel of scholars to foster community dialog.

Opa-locka Community Development Corporation (Miami-Dade)
“Juneteenth on Ali Baba Avenue” – $5,000
Opa-locka Community Development will orchestrate “Juneteenth on Ali Baba Avenue,” a festival celebration of memory, resilience, and transformation in the African American Community.

Pensacola Museum of Art (Escambia)
“Revolutionary Ripples: Caribbean History, Contemporary Art” – $5,000
The Pensacola Museum of Art to host an exhibition titled, “Kingdom of this World, Reimagined” and a programming series exploring Afro-Caribbean art, history, and literature through a lens of social justice struggles.

Platform Art, Inc. (Polk)
“Visual Narratives of History and Heritage: A Speaker Series on Florida and the Spanish-American War” – $5,000
Platform Art will host a Spanish-American War Speaker Series to complement a community public art project, which focuses on the war’s renowned all-Black regiment of Buffalo Soldiers within the larger context of the Cuban War of Independence.

Sephardi Voices USA, Inc. (Miami-Dade)
“Legacies of the Spanish Inquisition: Florida’s Converso & Sephardi Jews in Conversation” – $1,600
Sephardi Voices will host two public panels featuring members of Florida’s Hispanic-Sephardi Jewish community from homelands in the Middle East and North Africa.

The South City Foundation, Inc. (Leon)
“Soul of South Side Festival” – $5,000
The South City Foundation will host a panel discussion and history trolley tour of neighborhoods located in the South Side district of Tallahassee in celebration of Emancipation Day in Florida.

Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab (Miami-Dade)
“Miami Life: Unpacking Difficult Stories from Our Past” – $5,000
The Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab will host a symposium which will highlight the history of a once thought-lost newspaper titled Miami Life, and create four curated exhibitions utilizing a newly available digital collection.

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Learn more at FloridaHumanities.org/grants. Please contact Lindsey Morrison, Grants Director, at [email protected] for more information.

2021 Grant Deadlines:
April 14, 2021, at 12:00 pm (noon)
July 21, 2021, at 12:00 pm (noon)
October 12, 2021, at 12:00 pm (noon)