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Final round of grants distributed from Louisiana Culture Care Fund

The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities has awarded emergency relief grants from the Louisiana Culture Care Fund to an additional 17 organizations in 10 parishes. See the full list below.

The Louisiana Culture Care Fund provides emergency relief funding to humanities organizations impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. With initial funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the federal American Rescue Plan Act, awards range between $3,000 and $20,000.

Applications are now closed, but organizations interested in support for humanities programming are encouraged to apply for LEH’s Rebirth Grants.

 

Louisiana Culture Care Fund Grants Recipients

Awarded July 8, 2021

 

Abita Springs Trailhead Museum

St. Tammany Parish

Abita Springs, Louisiana

$3,000

 

Acadian Memorial Foundation INC

St. Martin Parish

St. Martinville, Louisiana

$3,000

 

Arna Bontemps Foundation Inc

Rapides Parish

Alexandria, Louisiana

$3,000

 

Bayou Lafourche Folklife & Heritage Museum

Lafourche Parish

Thibodaux, Louisiana

$3,000

 

Children’s Museum of Acadiana

Lafayette Parish

Lafayette, Louisiana

$3,000

 

Lafayette Parish Bayou Vermilion District

Lafayette Parish

Lafayette, Louisiana

$8,000

 

Louisiana Art & Science Museum

East Baton Rouge Parish

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

$10,000

 

LSU in Shreveport Foundation Spring Street Museum

Caddo Parish

Shreveport, Louisiana

$10,000

 

Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience

Orleans Parish

New Orleans, Louisiana

$10,000

 

Neighborhood Story Project

Orleans Parish

New Orleans, Louisiana

$7,000

 

New Orleans Film Society

Orleans Parish

New Orleans, Louisiana

$10,000

 

New Orleans Jazz Museum

Orleans Parish

New Orleans, Louisiana

$15,000

 

New Orleans Museum of Art

Orleans Parish

New Orleans, Louisiana

$10,000

 

NOVAC

Orleans Parish

New Orleans, Louisiana

$7,000

 

The Imperial Calcasieu Museum

Calcasieu Parish

Lake Charles, Louisiana

$5,000

 

Twin City Art Foundation

Ouachita Parish

Monroe, Louisiana

$5,000

 

Video Veracity, Inc.

Orleans Parish

New Orleans, Louisiana

$10,000