September 1, 2024 - September 30, 2024
Our Mission
We explore, cultivate, and champion the public humanities in order to strengthen New Jersey’s diverse community.
Our Work
Humanities Lab
Launching in spring 2023, this pilot program will help organizations learn about, experiment, and get started with with new program ideas.
Sponsorships
Sponsorships support events, programs, and opportunities that help institutions serving the people of New Jersey explore the public humanities in our lives.
Impact
Our programs, grants, resources, and convenings foster appreciation for the public humanities in every district in the state.
Events
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News
Resource Roundup August 2024
The Resource Roundup is a monthly email newsletter for the NJ Humanities community with helpful information, including notifications of funding, professional development events, meetings, and conferences from both NJCH and […]
Freedom Summer Commemoration Featured in the NY Times
Millions of readers experienced the historic events of the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, 60 years after the fact, through the pages of the “New York Times.”
Resource Roundup July 2024
The Resource Roundup is a monthly email newsletter for the NJ Humanities community with helpful information, including notifications of funding, professional development events, meetings, and conferences from both NJCH and […]
NJ and MS Humanities Councils to Commemorate 60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer on August 20
The year 2024 marks the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer, a pivotal campaign aimed at registering Black voters in Mississippi. While most of the movement’s work was concentrated in the […]
Resource Roundup June 2024
The Resource Roundup is a monthly email newsletter for the NJ Humanities community with helpful information, including notifications of funding, professional development events, meetings, and conferences from both NJCH and […]
Grantee Spotlight
Truehart Productions
Lambertville, (Incubation / $15,000)To support production of a new installment of “The Price of Silence,” a popular documentary TV series on NJ PBS exploring the history of Black New Jerseyans. Read more
American Littoral Society
Highlands, (Incubation / $15,000)To support “River Relationships,” a story-gathering project focused on Camden residents’ experiences in relation to pollution of the Delaware River. Read more
CivicStory
Summit, (Incubation / $12,210)To support the addition of a humanities journalist to the newsroom staff for a four-month evaluation period. Read more
CASA for Children of Essex County
Newark, (Action / $15,000)To support recorded interviews conducted by and with individuals who have experience with the child welfare system to document the historic, systemic problems that have led to disproportional representation of families of color and the impoverished. Read more
Sponsors & Partners
