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Show your support for the humanities! Now more than ever, we need your help in advocating for the value of the arts and humanities in the civic life of our nation.

Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens. Join us in telling policy makers that the humanities matter. Write to your legislator, sign a petition, and please, share your humanities story with us using the form below so that your words may be used in advocacy efforts. Find resources here to help make the case for the humanities and follow along on social media using #HumanitiesMatter #SavetheNEH.

What impact do Councils make nationwide?
  • Councils stimulate local economies by investing in museums, libraries, festivals, and public programming that enrich communities’ quality of life.
  • Councils leverage more than $4 at the local level for every federal dollar they regrant.
  • Councils partner with over 8,800 organizations nationwide.

For more information about state council funding, see: The State Humanities Councils: An Investment in America’s Communities (2020)

Impact of the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities:

Explore the impact of your Humanities Council through the resources linked below which were provided to congressional leaders at the March 2020 Humanities on the Hill advocacy gathering.

  • Reaching Rhode Islanders – FY2019 Grant Spotlights
  • Humanities in Focus – Culture is Key: Strengthening Rhode Island’s Civic Health through Cultural Participation
  • Impact Spotlight – Civic Engagement through the Humanities
  • FY19 Grants in District One (Over $124,050 invested through 34 grants)
  • FY19 Grants in District Two ($149,000 invested through 20 grants)
  • XIX: Shall Not Be Denied – a partnership initiative of the Humanities Council and the RI Department of State to commemorate the centennial of the 19th Amendment.
In the News:
  • Statement from the Federation of State Humanities Councils in response to the President’s FY 2019 Budget Request
  • Rhode Island leads defense of National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities on House Floor
  • Read a statement from the Humanities Council on the proposed FY18 federal budget cuts.

TAKE ACTION

Contact Your Legislator

Use this simple action form to call or email your members of Congress to urge them to support funding for the NEH and the State Humanities Councils. Talking points about the impact of Humanities Councils is provided within the form and you’re able to personalize the message.

SENATOR JACK REED (D–RI)
1000 Chapel View Boulevard, suite 290
Cranston, RI 02920-5602
(401) 943-3100

U.S. District Courthouse
One Exchange Terrace, suite 408
Providence, RI 02903-1744
(401) 528-5200

728 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-4642

www.reed.senate.gov/contact
SENATOR SHELDON WHITEHOUSE (D–RI)

170 Westminster St., suite 1100
Providence, RI, 02903
(401) 453-5294

530 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-2921

www.whitehouse.senate.gov/contact
REPRESENTATIVE DAVID CICILLINE (D–District 1)
1070 Main Street, Suite 300
Pawtucket, RI 02860
(401) 729-5600

128 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-4911

www.cicilline.house.gov/contact-me
REPRESENTATIVE JIM LANGEVIN (D–District 2)
300 Centerville Rd, Suite 200 South
Warwick, RI 02886
(401) 732-9400

109 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-2735

www.langevin.house.gov/contact-me
Tell Your Story

Email the Council to tell us why the humanities matter to you!

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From a local resident who simply wants to tell her story, to families seeking and finding (often free) activities, to our artists and their exchanges with an invested public, the humanities in Rhode Island matter. The Humanities matter because they are a wonderful way to get to know Rhode Island”
—SHAWN CHRISTIAN, Associate Professor of English & African American Studies, Wheaton College

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The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities
131 Washington St
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Providence, RI 02903

THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS

 

We gratefully acknowledge our generous supporters. See our 2020 Annual Report for a full listing of last year’s donors.

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