Take actions to save the national tender for humanities – AASLH

After This week, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is effectively closedThe government’s efficiency department of the Trump Administration is now aiming for the national reprimand for humanities (NEH).

Is the management Threatening to reduce the personnel, reduce the agency’s grant programs and remove grants already rewarded.

Yesterday, our partners in the National Humanitarian Union made a comment About this situation, which Aaslh signed.

Every year, NH, public programs, exhibits, infrastructure, scholarships and transcripts provide critical support for history organizations. Last year, 12 AASLH members, the American Treasures Grant Program, the joint initiative of the National Park Service, the joint initiative of IMLS and NH. In 2024, the $ 63.7 million financing was an additional 11 AASLH members in the country that funded $ 63.7 million. AASLH resources as 2022 support from Neh National Census of Historical Organizations and To date in 250 The field guide.

Our area has recently succeeded in financing Neh. Last summer, propaganda helped to refuse an amendment to a business department at the expense of $ 57 million to finance financing. There is support for Neh on both sides of the aisle and it is time to call on this support again.

That’s what you can do:

• Contact your Congress Members Using the form of contact from the National Humanitarian Alliance, Neh is to say how to support your work and area. Concrete samples work best.
• Contact your local selected officials And ask to contact the peers in Congress to support Neh.
• Use resources from the National Humanitarian Union To emphasize the positive impact in the Neh’s state and Congress region.
• Draw grants with your nehus. The National Humanitarian Union encourages everyone who is grant to take as much as possible in the shortest possible time.
• Fill in our survey Let us know how to affect your organization if the power is lowered or closing. Your answer will help us a more effective lawyer for the neh. The answers are confidential until they allow them to use them. See our website for previous query answers.
• Contact local media. The media is interested in how financing cuts affect local organizations and communities.

The date will make a single and active effort in the coming weeks and months to protect the federal finance and access to the full and accurate details of our past. We can be inspired by the movements from the past of our nation, and understand that we have the opportunity to do it.

The membership income supports advocacy in AASLH. Thank you, members! If you want to support our advocacy in this critical time, become a member.