Transcribed by: Rachel Cousins
- Happy hours for writing letters “write to your happy hour”
- NEH.gov website resources
- Breakdown of federal funding by state
- Information of the history of the endowment
- The NEH was at its peak under Nixon’s administration
- The biggest recipients of federal funding are not states you would expect (Vermont, Alaska)
- When lobbying for federal funding it is important to go into a breakdown of programs that would benefit
- National Humanities Alliance
- We need more innovative curriculums that teach problem solving to students of the humanities
- How do you highlight what goes away if you take away national humanities funding?
- The impact on society
- Using NEH grants to match donors to incentivize them to donate
- Documentary film is having difficulty under the competition of other digital sources for funding
- How do you know whether to trust the information presented in a documentary
- NEH approval on documentary films provides reliability because of the peer review process
- Also applies to websites
- The NEH has to be open with their practices to the public because they are funded by taxpayer dollars in a way private foundations don’t have to be
- The National Humanities Alliance
- They bring people from organizations all around the country to speak to their representatives on the Hill to talk about the importance of their organizations
