America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations
This program supports traveling or long-term museum exhibitions, library-based projects, interpretation of historical places or areas, interpretive Web sites, and other project formats that engage audiences in exploring humanities ideas and questions. Planning grants develop the content, interpretive approach, and formats of projects; implementation grants support their final development, design, and production.
Guidelines URL (Planning Grants): www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/AHCO_PlanningGuidelines.html
Guidelines URL (Implementation Grants): www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/AHCO_ImplementationGuidelines.html

MI-50032, Children’s Museum of Indianapolis:
The Power of Children: Making a Difference.
The Power of Children exhibition at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis examines the lives of three children who made a difference in the twentieth century: the Holocaust victim Anne Frank, Ruby Bridges (an African-American who integrated a New Orleans public school at age six in 1960), and Ryan White (a teenager who became a poster child for HIV/AIDS after being expelled from school because of his infection). Through theater, video, and re-creations of Anne’s hiding place, Ruby’s classroom, and Ryan’s bedroom, the exhibition brings to life the extraordinary challenges faced by each of these children. Supported by an NEH implementation grant in 2006, this project engages younger audiences in the quintessential humanities experience—seeing the world through someone else’s eyes—in ways that inspire them to aim high and begin to think about values like courage, the quest for justice, and
taking action.
Project URL: www.childrensmuseum.org/themuseum/powerofchildren/html/index.html

GP-22246, Maine Humanities Council:
Humanities at the Heart of Health Care: Across New England and Beyond.
Humanities at the Heart of Health Care programs dissolve workplace hierarchies, bringing together health care professionals to examine the ideals and ethics that anchor their work. Nurses, doctors, radiologists, physical therapists, hospital administrators, and others meet regularly for scholar-led discussions of important literature that offers differing perspectives on the patient-caretaker relationship. The project, developed by the Maine Humanities Council and conducted throughout New England, demonstrated powerfully the role of the humanities in creating compassion, perspective, wisdom, and “the courage to keep going.” A 2001 grant funded the expansion of this reading and discussion program for health care providers and policymakers.
Project URL: www.mainehumanities.org/programs/litandmed/