Founded in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Council in 2022, the Stanley N. Katz Prize for Excellence in Public Humanities is awarded annually. The award recognizes an organization which has demonstrated significant engagement with and impact through community-focused public humanities work in New Jersey.

NJCH offers an opportunity to connect communities with renowned speakers on environmental humanities topics.

Events in this program will include professional development and skill-building for individuals working on humanities programs, capacity building for organizations, and opportunities for all of us to come together for learning and networking. Efforts include virtual and in-person gatherings, as well as Communities of Practice for community college humanists and storytelling and oral history practitioners.

Humanities Lab provides a space for organizations to experiment with new program ideas, learn about new program models, and push their own practices in exciting directions.

Community History participants work closely with their communities to learn about and share their untold stories. Participants receive instruction on public history practices, develop projects in a collaborative environment, and receive funding from NJCH to launch projects in their communities.

Founded in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Council in 2022, the Stanley N. Katz Prize for Excellence in Public Humanities is awarded annually. The award recognizes an organization which has demonstrated significant engagement with and impact through community-focused public humanities work in New Jersey.

NJCH and Journalism + Design at the New School are partnering with a set of community colleges around the state in 2023-24 to create and deliver free noncredit community journalism certificate offerings, to equip people with tools to better understand and articulate what's happening in their communities.

As the official state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, NJCH has supported hundreds of organizations with millions of dollars in grant funding. NJCH regularly offers grant funding in two separate streams: Incubation Grants and Action Grants. Both offer awards between $3,000-$15,000. Incubation Grants support the planning and development of public humanities projects, while Action Grants support the implementation or continuation of public humanities projects.

In March 2023, NJCH hosted a free daylong program to foster intellectual exchange and debate about the most pressing topics for humanities faculty on community college campuses and provide needed spaces for these faculty to connect and collaborate as peers.

Funding, creating, and amplifying humanities-grounded programming that raises media literacy and expands support for local journalism—particularly in communities and places that are seldom covered by traditional media outlets.

NJCH offers a free college course in the humanities in partnership with Rutgers University-Newark and the national Clemente Course initiative. The 16-week course, open to Newark-area veterans and military-connected civilians, offers an opportunity for adult learners to explore themes of war and reconciliation through literature, art, history, and philosophy.

Via both an online form and "ballot boxes" located at partner sites throughout the state, NJCH collected hundreds of responses from New Jerseyans in response to pressing questions about our democracy. Responses and creative works based on them can be explored here.

NJCH sponsorships support public humanities events, programs, and opportunities that help institutions serving the people of New Jersey explore the public humanities in our lives. Sponsorships are designed to fund activities that advance NJCH’s mission and strategic goals, with the aim of providing greater visibility and access to audiences that are not currently served by NJCH's grantmaking or other programs. NJCH will provide funding up to $3,000 for an organization's event, in return for marketing visibility and exposure.

In collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street program, NJCH brought the exhibit "Voices and Votes: Democracy in America" to six community colleges around New Jersey and supported a host of democracy-related public humanities programs at nonprofit organizations.