Mini Grants

Mini grants are awared on a continual basis throughout the year. The following mini grants were awarded from June 2011 to June2012:                           

NAACP Burlington Branch

Juneteenth Celabration

$2,000

Opera House Players

Abdelkader Education Project

$2,500

James Kennedy Public LIbrary

Memories of Iowa

$1,560

Iowa Railroad Historical Society

Depots of Iowa

$3,000

River Action

Explore the River Series: 2013 Riverine Walks

$1,000

Western Iowa Tech Community College

Black History Month Observance Day

$1,500

Henry County Conservation Dept.

Country School: One Room, One Nation, Kelly & Tammy Rundle

$300

Edmundson Art Foundation

Artist Lecture: Fred Wilson "Opacities: The Unforgivable Beauty of Black Glass"

$1,500

Iowa State University

The Big Thirst

$2,000

Clarke University

Evolution Weekend

$2,500

YWCA Clinton

25th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

$2,500

Central College

Central College Writers Reading Series

$1,800

Spencer Public LIbrary

All Spencer Reads 201

$720

Madison County Historical Society

Covered Bridge Festival 2012

$500

Whiting Public Library

Five Small Communityy Libraries: A Recitation and Discussion Tour

$1,400

Iowa State University

Early Irish Settlers in Iowa Through Performances & Discussions with Hob Nailed Boots and Mary Swander

$2,60

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Northeast Iowa Community College

Literature into Film

$1,135

Western Iowa Tech Community College

The Culture of Blues: Poetry of the Soul, Diunna Greenleaf

$1,000

Friends of Lakeside Lab

Voicing the Absent Narrative

$446

Repertory Theater of Iowa

Sense & Sensibility

$1,000

Dubuque County Fines Arts Society

Spoken Word and Gender Theory with Andrea Gibson

$3,000

Society of Fairfield Italian Americans

Italian Culture Master Series

$1500

Chariton Chamber & Development Corp.

Lucas County Hay Bale Art Project

$150

Mississippi Valley Blues Society

Educating Adults About American History and Culture through the Blues

$1000

Sudanese American Community Services

From Sudan to the Heartland: A Lecture and Concert  by the Sudanese Americans in Iowa City

$300

Dubuque Museum of Art

Thomas Moran Lecture by Peter Bacon Hales

$500

City of Chariton

History of Local Aviation

$800

American Gothic House Center

Creating an interactive outdoor exhibit space

$1560

James Kennedy Public Library

Tickled to Death: Laughter Makes the Best Mystery

$500

Edmundson Art Foundation

John and Mary Poppajohn Sculpture Park Education Guide

$2220

Benton County Women’s Oral History Committee

Sharing Her Own Story: Oral Histories of Ten Benton County Women

$550

University of Iowa Digital Studio for the Public Humanities

David Plowden’s Iowa Online

$3000

Julien International Film Festival

Sixteen Forty-Nine Film Screening

$950

Fairfield Convention and Visitors Bureau

Remembering Our Fallen Exhibit

$3,000

Cedar County Historical Society and Museum

A Day on the Prairie at Prairie Village

$750

University of Iowa Hancher Auditorium

Iowa and Invisible Man: Making Blackness Visible

$500

Siouxland Human Investment Partnership

The Great Hurt: Boarding Schools and the American Indian

$2,500

Dubuque Museum of Art

Three Programs to Support Edward S. Curtiss Exhibition

$750

Sioux City Public Museum

Three Tribes, Many Stories

$2000

Bettendorf Public Library Foundation

A Valentine for Faye Clow

$250

League of Women Voters of Johnson County

The U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court: How They Impact Your Life

$1800

Preservation Iowa

12th Annual Iowa One Room School House Conference: Preserving Country Schools DVDs

$500

Green Hollow Center

Iowa Hills & Heritage Festival

$1000

Dallas County Conservation Board

Prairie Awakening—A Journey into Indigenous Learning

$1000

Linn County Conservation Department

Meskwaki Cultural Day: Bringing Traditions Back

$1000

Edmundson Art Foundation

2011 Fall Lecture Series

$2000

Dubuque Museum of Art

Three Lectures in Celebration of Grant Wood’s 120th Birthday

$1000