NEH Grants for Smaller Organizations
Join CT Humanities and CLHO for a second webinar with the National Endowment for the Humanities for a deeper dive into specific grant lines. This webinar will be focused on introducing the NEH grant programs that are most accessible to smaller cultural organizations such as Preservation Assistance Grants, Climate Smart, Cultural and Community Resilience, and Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations.
This program will be hosted via Zoom on September 26 at 1:00 p.m., and will be recorded and made publicly available.
Presenters:
Tricia Brooks
Senior Program Officer
Division of Public Programs
National Endowment for the Humanities
When Tricia Brooks was seven, she was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up. Her answer: a Pilgrim. The impact of visits to places like the Plimoth Patuxent Museum (known to her then as Plimoth Plantation), the Boston Children’s Museum, Old Sturbridge Village, and the Jackson Homestead at her local hometown historical society, influenced more than that fanciful response. A love for learning and for history was sparked by those early experiences. She went on to earn her Bachelor’s degree from Smith College and Master’s Degree in African American Studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison with a research focus on women’s political activism and the social settlement house movement. Influenced by her early experiences on school field trips, she spent the first twenty years of her career working to bring history to life for visitors of all ages at a variety of historic sites, including the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, the Curator’s Office of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Colonial Williamsburg. She is also a contributing author to Interpreting Slavery at Museums and Historic Sites (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). She came to the NEH in 2013 as a Program Officer in the Division of Public Programs and was appointed Deputy Director of the Division in 2023.
Adriana Cutler
Senior Program Officer
Division of Preservation & Access
National Endowment for the Humanities
Adriana Cutler, a Senior Program Officer in the Division of Preservation and Access, came to NEH in 2010 from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where she managed the center’s sole granting program and coordinated professional development opportunities for arts management and arts education professionals. She holds a BA from the University of Maryland, College Park, in integration and presentation of music and the visual arts, a degree she designed, and a masters in arts management from George Mason University. Her interests include cultural heritage, visual and performing arts, architecture and design, preservation and sustainability, systems design and technology, strategic planning, conference and event production, and working with historically excluded populations. Currently, she serves as the co-head of the agency’s HSI Working Group and is the NEH representative to the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Hispanics.
