Ongoing Programs and Partnerships
With an annual budget in the range of $1.2 million per year, and a staff of seven full-time employees, MHC offers a variety of programs. These include competitive grants to support humanities-related projects and programs around the state of Missouri, family reading initiatives, heritage tourism projects, and traveling exhibits. The Council also collaborates in promoting and providing other public humanities programming such as a speakers’ bureau and National History Day in Missouri, which are managed cooperatively with the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a workshop on teaching Mark Twain in the classroom—all of which combined to reach 112,541 individuals in 82 Missouri counties in 2012. Ongoing programs include:
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