Join us on September 19, 2025, at Morgan Manufacturing in Chicago to celebrate 50 years of Illinois Humanities! This milestone honors our partners, organizations, donors, and humanists at the heart of our community. Stay tuned for more updates on our 50th-anniversary celebrations, including new grants, expanded programs, and an ambitious plan for the next 50 years. #ILHumanities #ILH50 #SaveTheDate
Illinois Humanities
非盈利组织
Chicago，Illinois 1,788 位关注者
An Illinois where the humanities are central to making the state more just, creative, and connected.
关于我们
Founded in 1974, we are the state partner for the National Endowment for the Humanities and supported by state, federal, and private funds. We provide free, high-quality humanities experiences throughout Illinois, particularly for communities of color, individuals living on low incomes, counties and towns in rural areas, small arts and cultural organizations, and communities highly impacted by mass incarceration. Stay connected with us by subscribing to the Illinois Humanities newsletter at ilhumanities.org and following us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn @ILHumanities.
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https://www.ilhumanities.org
Illinois Humanities的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 非盈利组织
- 规模
- 11-50 人
- 总部
- Chicago，Illinois
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- 上市公司
- 创立
- 1974
- 领域
- community grants、public programming、education、professional development、humanities、capacity building、facilitation training、youth poetry和speakers
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Illinois Humanities员工
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We're gearing up for a special Giving Tuesday with a goal of raising $5,000 to kick of our 50th Anniversary. Stay tuned to see how you can help us achieve our vision of an Illinois where the public humanities are central to making the state more just, creative, and connected and make your end of year gift today Your support will ensure that free public programs, community conversations, and cultural experiences continue to reach every corner of Illinois. Click the link to make your gift today: https://bit.ly/3Zh0y9N #ILHumanities #GivingTuesday #ILH50
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We are so excited to announce this month's Grantee Partner Spotlight, the Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community (CBCAC). The Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community (CBCAC) unites the resources of member organizations and individual members to empower Chinese American communities in Greater Chicago. To learn more about their work, click the link to read the full article: https://bit.ly/3YV17EE #ILHumanities #Grantee
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?? Did you know? ?? Road Scholars hosting applications are on a first-come, first-serve basis. Click the link if you're interested in hosting a speaker: https://bit.ly/4fda970 #ILHumanities #RoadScholars
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Join us for a special event as we commemorate a significant milestone in our journey. Our Executive Director, Gabrielle Lyon, will be sharing some exciting announcements around our 50th anniversary celebrations and new look. This event promises to be a memorable occasion filled with reflections on our past achievements and a glimpse into our future as we look beyond our 50th. Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of our history! #ILHumanities
Exciting News and Updates from Illinois Humanities
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Last October, Illinois Humanities hosted the third annual Envisioning Justice Statewide Convening in Bloomington, Illinois and we are honored to have convened such an esteemed and diverse group of artists, organizers, and educators whose commitment to collective healing and liberation is felt across our state. A huge thank you to all of our amazing speakers, presenters, and partners, who worked behind the scenes to make this convening a success. Missed the event, no worries! Click the link to view our newly launched recap video: https://bit.ly/4elFZ11 #ILHumanities #EnvisioningJustice
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Join us for the final People’s Salon of 2024, HOUSE & HOME. ?? Home is where the heart is… or maybe the heart is what defines the home? In an era of inflation, immigration, segregation, and incarceration, many among us find ourselves making homes outside of houses, or being housed in places that don’t feel like home. Still others are making their homes into places that do far more than serve as a house. You’re invited to join Illinois Humanities at Haymarket House – previously a private home – to interrogate where we lay our heads at night, and how that affects our days. Click the link to RSVP: https://bit.ly/4fhusAf #ILHumanities
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Our unique role as the state’s champion for the humanities is more relevant than ever before. As we prepare to commemorate our 50th anniversary, we are thrilled to announce our new look! In the coming weeks and months, look out for more news about how we will be commemorating our 50th—with invitations to share stories, new grants, expanded programs, and an ambitious plan for the next 50 years. To learn more about our rebrand, and what's in store for our 50th anniversary, click the link: https://bit.ly/3UKaAxu #ILHumanities
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Join us for a special event as we commemorate a significant milestone in our journey. Our Executive Director, Gabrielle Lyon, will be sharing some exciting announcements around our 50th anniversary celebrations and new look. This event promises to be a memorable occasion filled with reflections on our past achievements and a glimpse into our future as we look beyond our 50th. Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of our history! #ILHumanities
Exciting News and Updates from Illinois Humanities
www.dhirubhai.net
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A few words from our Executive Director, Gabrielle Lyon;
I'm thinking a lot about our state and our country today. Probably you are too. If you're like me, you're seeing a lot of maps, or reading the news, and seeing - for example - Illinois being illustrated as a "blue state" surrounded by "red states." These are profound oversimplifications - and they are erosive. None of us are just one thing - not our vote, not our worst mistake, and not our most generous moment. We are all, together, so much more than reductive narratives try to tell us we are. There is no county or town or city in Illinois that is 100% "red" or "blue." Colors are not people. Geography is not people. Our state is comprised of nearly 13 million people who are as diverse and complex as is the fullness of America. I appreciate this deeply every day in my role as the Executive Director of Illinois Humanities. The public humanities reminds?us to embrace complexity. In the weeks and months ahead our work Illinois Humanities is - as it has been - will be about practicing the humanities to help people engage beyond boundaries rather than retreat into the familiar.?We will continue to find ways not only to embrace complexity, but to seek it out and to help others do the same.? Our mission, vision, and values call upon us to enable residents of our state to be creative in the face of narratives that reduce and simplify us; to protect spaces that allow us to?to have challenging conversations; to catalyze connections so that we can be with one another in community. In a few minutes I'll board a plane and fly over "flyover country" to spend a few days with my mom in New Mexico. There's a lot to process but I'm carrying two things with me. One of the things I'm taking on board is the feeling that it's a privilege to work for an organization established provide what is most required in this moment: ensuring access to the humanities in Illinois so that we can develop?the wisdom and vision our democracy requires. The second thing I'm taking is a reminder to myself: that the simple act of resisting reduction is a powerful form of resistance and commitment to the idea of a democracy comprised of "We the People."
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