Sponsorships
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.
NJCH 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.
At a Glance
- Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofit or government organizations
- Up to $3,000 for your organization's event or program
- Activities must be open and accessible to the general public
- Activities must primarily serve New Jersey audiences and/or organizations
- Application deadline: rolling
Upcoming
RE-presentation through Community Narratives
Under the tutelage of applied anthropologist and FireWorks Executive Director Asiyah Kurtz, one apprentice will spend eight weeks interviewing, facilitating discussions, and documenting the personal narratives of community members to be used in a storytelling presentation of the apprentice's choosing. NJCH is honored to sponsor this apprentice’s work in our home city of Camden.
Price of Liberty Film Series: Reparations Screening and Discussion
NJCH is a proud sponsor of the Montclair History Center's screening of Reparations, which explores the four-century struggle to seek repair and atonement for slavery in the United States from the perspectives of Black and Asian Americans who believe that our collective liberation can only be achieved by standing with one another.
Restoring Hope and Health Through Poetry
Join acclaimed poets Patrick Rosal and Shawn R. Jones for a healing workshop that will encourage participants to take an unflinching look at personal and collective traumas and create a roadmap for hope.
Living History Visit with Phillis Wheatley
NJCH is proud to sponsor this Living History Visit with poet Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved person who became one of the best-known poets in pre-19th century America, as portrayed by Dr. Daisy Century.
Living History Visit with Sojourner Truth
NJCH is proud to sponsor this Living History Visit with Sojourner Truth, as portrayed by Dr. Daisy Century.
Three Early Black American Women in Words: A Literary Historic Houses Tour
NJCH is proud to sponsor this tour of Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage introducing the works of three early Black American women in words—Phillis Wheatley, Hetty Saunders, and Sojourner Truth.
Past Sponsorships
International Diversity Fair
Stories Invincible Closing Ceremony
Price of Liberty Film Series: Free Renty Screening and Discussion
Sankofa Collaborative, Commemoration of Tulsa Massacre
Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series at Rutgers University-Newark
Art Pride New Jersey Thrive Arts Conference
Woodbury Hispanic Heritage Festival
Sponsorship Information
NJCH will provide funding up to $3,000 for an organization's event, in return for marketing visibility and exposure. Sponsorships can support a variety of formats, including events, conferences, scholarships, or awards.
How to apply
Organizations that are interested in applying for an NJCH sponsorship should review the sponsorship guidelines below. If your organization meets the eligibility requirements and you believe your work is a fit for our program, please contact Valerie Popp, Director of Strategic Initiatives, via email at vpopp@njhumanities.org or by phone (310-701-5203) to discuss your sponsorship idea. Applications submitted without prior communication with NJCH staff will not be considered.
NJCH gives priority to Sponsorship requests that:
- Support areas that are underserved in the NJ humanities ecosystem (i.e., geographic, demographic, institutional type, humanities disciplines)
- Support events/programs with a large number of attendees or viewership
- Support activities with low-cost or free attendance
- Provide equitable access to the humanities or educational/professional development opportunities for humanities-serving institutions
- Support activities that meet NJCH’s strategic priorities, but whose structure is not suited to NJCH’s current grantmaking programs or initiatives
- Support organizations not recently funded by NJCH grants
- Demonstrate a clear sense of the activity’s marketing and visibility potential, including logo placement, digital promotion, program inclusion
- Support rapid response programs that address recent events that have had a strong impact on New Jerseyans and that would benefit from a humanities perspective. In those cases, standard expectations about timing may be waived on a case-by-case basis.
