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

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