Fourteen additional organizations receive emergency funding
The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities has awarded emergency relief grants from the Louisiana Culture Care Fund to another 14 organizations in the final round of distribution from the fund. See the full list below.
The Louisiana Culture Care Fund, which is now closed, provided emergency relief support for operational expenses to humanities organizations impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Initial funding was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the federal CARES Act, with additional support generously provided by The Helis Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Josef Sternberg Memorial Foundation.
In total, the LEH awarded 56 grants totaling $484,548 across 22 parishes. Applications to the fund are now closed, but organizations seeking funding for humanities programs are encouraged to apply for LEH’s Rebirth Grants program, opening July 1st.
Louisiana Culture Care Fund Grants Recipients
Awarded Wednesday, May 27, and Monday, June 8, 2020
Alliance Française de la Nouvelle-Orléans
Orleans Parish
New Orleans, Louisiana
$7,500
Friends of the Ferriday Delta Music Museum Foundation
Concordia Parish
Ferriday, Louisiana
$3,000
Friends of the LSU Museum of Art
East Baton Rouge Parish
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
$12,000
Friends of the LSU Rural Life Museum
East Baton Rouge Parish
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
$10,000
Friends of WWOZ
Orleans Parish
New Orleans, Louisiana
$7,500
Orleans Parish
New Orleans, Louisiana
$3,000
Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum
St. Tammany Parish
Madisonville, Louisiana
$15,000
Louisiana Museum Foundation on behalf of the New Orleans Jazz Museum
Orleans Parish
New Orleans, Louisiana
$4,308
LSU Foundation on behalf of the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History
East Baton Rouge Parish
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
$10,000
NUNU Arts and Culture Collective
St. Martin Parish
Arnaudville, Louisiana
$5,000
Ouachita African American Historical Society
Ouachita Parish
Monroe, Louisiana
$10,000
Orleans Parish
New Orleans, Louisiana
$15,000
Caldwell Parish
Columbia, Louisiana
$3,000
Vermilionville Living History Museum Foundation, Inc.
Lafayette Parish
Lafayette, Louisiana
$3,000