National Endowment for the Humanities

noun

U.S. Government.

1. an independent agency that stimulates the growth and development of the humanities in the U.S. by awarding grants to individuals and organizations.

Example Sentences

There were millions of dollars in grants from the EPA and National Endowment for the Humanities.

From Los Angeles Times

A request to the National Endowment for the Humanities was not returned.

From Los Angeles Times

That work has largely been made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities, a small, underfunded government agency gutted by President Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency.

From Los Angeles Times

As the congressional legislation creating the National Endowment for the Humanities articulated, the federal government has a “necessary and appropriate” role “to help create and sustain not only a climate encouraging freedom of thought, imagination, and inquiry but also the material conditions” facilitating humanistic inquiry.

From Los Angeles Times

These are just a few of the programs at risk following the Department of Government Efficiency’s drastic decision last week to rescind more than 1,000 grants that had been awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

From Slate