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Grassroots Grant Publicity Requirements
Congratulations on your grant award and thank you for helping support the public humanities in North Carolina.
As a condition of funding, you have agreed to include mention of the North Carolina Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in all of your publicity materials and activities (print, broadcast, online). The Humanities Council should be acknowledged on your website (or blog or in project-related social media platforms), and hyperlinks to the Council website provided. In all promotions, it should be clear that the North Carolina Humanities Council funded your program.
The North Carolina Humanities Council has a responsibility as a steward of taxpayer dollars to request that you follow the publicity requirements summarized here. Continued availability of Council funds depends largely on your fulfillment of these requests.
Humanities Council Acknowledgement
In all your promotions, whether printed, broadcast, or online, you must use this credit line verbatim*:
This project is made possible by funding from the North Carolina Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
*Exception to verbatim: “made possible in part by funding”
Promotional materials and activities include but are not limited to press releases, flyers, posters, brochures, podium signs, newspaper, TV, and radio interviews, event introductions, Internet announcements, websites, online calendar notices, social media platforms.
Council Logo with Tagline
Whenever possible, in all your promotions prominently display the North Carolina Humanities Council’s official logo withtagline (“Many Stories, One People”). Note that the Humanities Council logo and tagline should be used in addition to, not instead of, the above credit line.
High-resolution versions of the logo, in color and black and white, are available at notreproduce the logo from photocopied or faxed images.
In all promotions, use the North Carolina Humanities Council’s full name: the North Carolina Humanities Council. Do not abbreviate any portion of the full or shorter versions: such as, NCHC or NC Humanities Council. In running text, it is acceptable to use the shorter Humanities Council after first usage of the full name.
Project directors/sponsors are responsible for conveying the Humanities Council’s publicity requirements to graphic designers, website or social media managers, and program spokespeople. Project directors/sponsors areultimately responsible for project participants meeting the Council’s publicity requirements.
Website
The North Carolina Humanities Council’s logo with tagline should appear prominently on your website with the official credit statement. Hyperlinks should be provided. Strongly preferred is that you link both the logo and Council name.
North Carolina Humanities Council Trustees
At least one month prior to the start of your project, it is important to invite North Carolina Humanities Council trustees who live in or near the area in which your project will occur. Your packet contains county and contact information for every North Carolina Humanities Council trustee. If trustees attend a project event, plan when/where/how you will introduce them and suggest that they say a few words about the Council. If trustees prefer not to speak publically, acknowledge them as representatives of the North Carolina Humanities Council and thank them for their support of your project at the outset of the program.
Inviting and Thanking Elected Officials
The North Carolina Humanities Council receives some funding fromthe General Assembly of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency. Without these crucial dollars, the Humanities Council would not be able to offer much of its programming in the public humanities – programming that both preserves the past and enriches our lives now.
The Humanities Council strongly encouragesproject directors to invite elected officials (local, state,federal) to project events and to write them a letter of appreciation. Directors should request that project participants(attendees, partners, etc.)write elected officials also. The letter should describe the impact of your project on your community, thank elected officials for making funding possible, and urge them to continueand even increasetheir support of the public humanities in our state.
Project directors are welcome to adapt the letter template “Thanking Your Elected Officials”on the Humanities Council website at:
Project participants may adapt this template to write from their own perspectives.
Advocacy Links
To find out who represents you at the state level, go to the North Carolina General Assembly’s Citizen Guide at page is easy to navigate and searchable by voter registration, district, county, or zip code.
To find out who represents you at the federal level, go to the Federation of State Humanities Council’s advocacy page site at
GT-5011 Grassroots Grant Publicity Requirements