INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Humanities is marking its first half-century of serving Hoosiers by creating the Indiana Humanities Future Fund to ensure the organization can continue to deliver programs and grants to communities across the state for at least another 50 years.
The fund will support the development of innovative and meaningful grantmaking and public programming that will reach more Hoosiers and have an impact in their communities. It will also support the development of the organization’s next statewide theme, which will focus on citizenship and democracy as part of the national commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Indiana Humanities uses the humanities — the fields of history, literature, philosophy and ethics, world languages and cultures, religious studies, archaeology and other related disciplines — to help Hoosiers tackle difficult questions, understand varied perspectives and connect across divides.
Tax-deductible contributions may be made at IndianaHumanities.org/donate
In 2022, Indiana Humanities hosted events and provided grants or resources to more than 130 communities across the state. They also awarded over $312,000 in grants to 128 organizations in 54 communities. Indiana Humanities awarded the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards in ten categories — fiction, nonfiction, debut, children’s, middle grade, young adult, poetry, genre, lifetime achievement and literary champion.