Michigan2012 Annual Report

michigan2012 Annual Report michiganhumanities.org 18percent Newsletter reaches increase in new donors to MHC Welcome At a fairytale festival 76,468 Pearl Street in Grand Rapids, c. 1875–1881. Courtesy Edsel & Eleanor Ford House

Since 1974, the Michigan Humanities Council has Most notably, we met an increased need of Key Accomplishments been at your side watching Michigan transform— humanities support from nonprofit organizations sometimes good and sometimes bad—but all stretching from the corner of southeast Michigan to Awarded $460,093 in grants to the while building stronger, more culturally the tip of the Upper Peninsula. We awarded more 50 counties, leveraging $1,420,725 aware communities. than $450,000 to more than 200 organizations in cost share needing assistance to build culture in their Each year, we continue to work diligently with Expanded Poetry Out Loud nonprofits and communities throughout the state to communities—through festivals, exhibits, oral history projects and much more. programming opportunities Cover photos (L–R): Lumbering in Michigan: Jenney, J.A.; Lapeer support the humanities—something we encounter schoolhouse: Acrylic Artist; Cass County workers: Courtesy of every day that transforms our thinking, whether Michigan is unique in many ways, and without Began acceptance of online grant Dowagiac Area History Museum; St. Paul’s church: Kim Long; Poetry Out Loud 2008 Champion Charles White; Fort Gratiot through a poetry recital, scholarly lecture, storytelling the support of our donors over the past years it is applications

Online Grants lighthouse: Acrylic Artist. event, or something as simple as a film or radio uncertain how many small-town museums, libraries broadcast. and festivals would continue to thrive. We saw a Held adjudication and presented greater need for humanities support in 2012—and the new three-year Arts & In 2012, the Michigan Humanities Council changed— Humanities Touring staff transition opened doors to fresh perspectives thanks to you—that need was met. Directory. on how to keep Michigan’s culture vibrant. We We look forward to continuing this transformation in brought more than 100,000 Michiganians 2013, knowing that more than ever there is a need, Began successful start of new Awarded in Grants to 50 counties together in a discussion on housing segregation and and most importantly, support for the humanities in Smithsonian Institution exhibit tour— $460,093 gentrification; started a Smithsonian exhibit tour Michigan. The Way We Worked reaching our vibrant, rural cities; completed a new Arts & Humanities Touring Directory with 175 of Published first full-year of Michigan’s top musicians, storytellers, performers e-newsletter, reaching 76,468 leveraged by $1,420,725 in cost share and re-enactors; invited nearly 17,000 high school Robbe DiPietro Erik Nordberg students to open their hearts through poetry; and Acting Executive Director Executive Director Increased new donors to MHC by watched the relationship of parent and child grow August 2012–April 2013 May 2013–Present 18 percent through a simple act of reading together.

2012 Annual Report www.michiganhumanities.org “Prime Time Family Reading Time® brings families through the Peter White Public Library doors and introduces them to the resources and services provided to the community. When they learn about all the opportunities available to them, their enthusiasm is contagious!” Lynette Suckow, Youth Services Librarian at Peter White Public Library in Marquette 2,252 Attendees

Prime Time Family Reading Time® In 2012, six libraries throughout Michigan took on the mission of transforming families page by page. Featuring a community dinner, family-engaged reading with a storyteller, and scholar-led discussion, Prime Time Family Reading Time® is making an impact. While there are many programs that focus on childhood literacy, Prime Time is unique in that it engages an entire family to read and discuss books together. FY 2012 at a Glance: Parents, grandparents and even siblings attend 90 minute sessions over the course of six weeks and have the opportunity to discuss children’s books in a $1,420,725 Grantee Cost Share new light. It provides a positive environment for discussion and an opportunity $460,093 Awarded in Grants for child and parent conversation on relevant humanities topics. Since Michigan 419,048 Attendees began coordinating this program, nearly 8,000 children have benefited and built stronger relationships with their family while gaining literary learning. 1,234 events Prime Time is a program of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and is made possible in Michigan with financial support from the National Endowment Programs: for the Humanities. Great Michigan Read Family literacy may seem like a never-ending battle, but with your continued support we can work to build a stronger future. $10,000 Prime Time Family High Density Reading Time® For more information, please contact Carla Ingrando—[email protected] Awarded in Site Grants or (517) 372-7770. Poetry Out Loud BY THE NUMBERS From top: Families gather at Stair Public Library The Way We Worked in Morenci for Prime Time Family Reading $10,000 Awarded in Site Grants ® Arts & Humanities Touring Time ; credit Stair Public Library. Children Library/City/County 2,252 Attendees from Alpena participate in a Prime Time Family ® Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library/Alpena/Alpena Major Grants 70 Events Reading Time commercial; credit Alpena Low Density County George N. Fletcher Public Library. Lenawee County Library/Adrian/Lenawee Quick & Planning Grants 5 Host Sites Loutit District Library/Adrian/Lenawee Peter White Public Library/Marquette/Marquette Stair Public Library/Morenci/Lenawee 2012 Annual Report www.michiganhumanities.org From top left: Mounir Jamal of Forest Hills Central High School, Alexis Barrera of Hartland High School, Olivia Finkelstein of West Bloomfield High School, the four finalists for 2012; credit Dave Trumpie.

“Before I got involved with the program, I didn’t know much about poetry. …I found poems that really meant something to 1 me and it helped me learn more about myself and what I stand State Champion— for. I learned so much about literature and recitation and it was 24,486 an amazing program to be a part of.” Participating Randi Laundré of Randi Laundré, 2012 State Champion from Alba High School 168 Teachers Students Statewide Alba High School

From top left: 2012 Poetry Out Loud Champion Randi Laundré of Alba High School, Poetry can be a key to your heart—for many it brings peace, comfort, power and student competitors at identity. However helpful poetry may be, it is unfortunately becoming a lost form the state competition, of artistic expression for today’s youth. The Michigan Humanities Council is proud poet Terry Blackhawk; credit Dave Trumpie. to keep poetry alive by engaging our high school youth in annual poetry recitation competitions. Poetry Out Loud, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Foundation, is a national high school poetry recitation competition. Since the Michigan Humanities Council and Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs began hosting the program in 2005, more than 60,000 students have had their 22 voices heard. Counties In 2012, it was Randi Laundré, a sophomore at Alba Public School (Alba), who took home top honors as the Michigan Poetry Out Loud Champion. With the title, she earned a $200 cash award, $500 stipend for her school library, and all-expenses- paid trip to Washington, D.C., where she competed in the national competition. Alba Public School/Elmira/Antrim Franklin Road Christian School/Novi/Oakland Mercy High School/Farmington Hills/Oakland Bay City Central High School/Bay City/Bay Galesburg-Augusta High School/Galesburg/Kalamazoo Mesick Junior/ Senior High School/Mesick/Wexford Runners-up were: Alexis Barrera (Hartland High School), Brittni Eller (Grand River Berkley High School/Berkley/Oakland Grand Rapids Catholic Central High School/Grand Rapids/Kent Michigan Connections Academy/Okemos/Ingham Preparatory School), and Mounir Jamal (Forest Hills Central High School). Big Rapids High School/Big Rapids/Mecosta Grand River Preparatory High School/Kentwood/Kent North Branch High School/North Branch/Lapeer For more information on how you can have your school involved, please contact Boyne Falls School K-12/Boyne Falls/Charlevoix Gwinn High School/Gwinn/Marquette Oakland Christian School/Auburn Hills/Oakland 51 Judith Dworkin—[email protected] or (517) 372-7770. Bradford Academy High School/Southfield/Oakland Hartland High School/Hartland/Livingston Oxford High School/Oxford/Oakland BY THE NUMBERS Calumet High School/Calumet/Houghton Haslett High School/Haslett/Ingham Pentwater High School/Pentwater/Oceana High Schools Calvary Baptist Academy/Midland/Midland Houghton High School/Houghton/Houghton Petoskey High School/Petoskey/Emmet 24,486 Participating Students Carman-Ainsworth High School/Flint/Genesee International Academy/Bloomfield Hills/Oakland Portage Northern High School/Portage/Kalamazoo 168 Teachers Cass Technical High School/Detroit/Wayne Jeffers High School/Painesdale/Houghton Riverview Community High School/Riverview/Wayne 51 High Schools Classical Academy/Flint/Genesee John Glenn High School/Bay City/Bay Roosevelt High School/Wyandotte/Wayne 22 Counties Detroit Catholic Central High School/Novi/Oakland Leelanau School/Glen Arbor/Leelanau Saline High School/Saline/Washtenaw Detroit School of Arts/Detroit/Wayne Legacy High School/Howell/Livingston Shrine Catholic High School/Royal Oak/Oakland 1 State Champion—Randi School/City/County Dexter High School/Dexter/Washtenaw Mackinac Island Public Schools/Mackinac Island/Mackinac Southfield Lathrup High School/Lathrup Village/Oakland Laundré of Alba High School Everett High School/Lansing/Ingham Madison Academy High School/Burton/Genesee Wellspring Preparatory High School/Grand Rapids/Kent Flint Schools of Choice/Flint/Genesee Marquette High School/Marquette/Marquette West Bloomfield High School/West Bloomfield/Oakland 2012 Annual Report www.michiganhumanities.orgForest Hills Central High School/Grand Rapids/Kent Martin Luther King Jr Senior High School/Detroit/Wayne West Ottawa High School/Holland/Ottawa 2012 TOURING Grants Organization/City/County/Grant Award

Albion Public Schools Capital Area District Library– City of Farmington Hills Special Eleanor Hornung Elementary Gill Elementary School PTA Immaculate Conception Ukrainian “The Michigan Arts & Humanities Touring program is an Albion Downtown Lansing Services Cultural Arts School Farmington Hills Catholic Schools invaluable resource that not only helps to keep so many artists Calhoun Lansing Farmington Hills Brighton Oakland Warren $660 Ingham Oakland Livingston $230 Macomb accessible but it’s also a constant reminder that theater and All Saints Academy $185 $1,440 $400 Gladstone Title VII Indian Education $100 Grand Rapids Capital Area District Library– City of Farmington Hills Special Erickson Center for the Arts Program Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish arts remain alive and thriving in Michigan. I owe much of my Kent Downtown Lansing Services Cultural Arts Curtis Gladstone Lansing 25-year-success as a school performer to the visibility and $334 Lansing Farmington Hills Mackinac Delta Ingham Amanda Moore Elementary Ingham Oakland $220 $300 $600 59,976 opportunities the Touring program provides.” Romeo $80 $800 Erickson Center for the Arts Grace A. Dow Memorial Library Indian Prairie Elementary School Doug Scheer, Scheer Genius Assembly Shows, assemblyshows.com Macomb Capital Area District Library– City of Marlette Curtis Midland Kalamazoo $538 Downtown Lansing Marlette Mackinac Midland Kalamazoo Attendees Lansing Tuscola $1,048 $350 $614 Arts Center for Newaygo County Fremont Ingham $240 Fernwood Botanical Garden and Grace Pointe Indian Prairie Elementary School Newaygo $250 Crooked Tree Arts Center Nature Preserve Brighton Kalamazoo $635 Capital Area District Library Petoskey Niles Livingston Kalamazoo Arts Council Of White Lake South Branch Emmet Berrien $300 $661 Arts & Humanities Touring Montague Lansing $1,120 $920 Grace Pointe Indian Woods Elementary School Muskegon Ingham Curious Kids First Congregational Church Brighton Kimball From historical re-enactors, storytellers, tradition bearers, musicians, magicians and $1,358.80 $100 Portage Battle Creek Livingston Saint Clair much more, the Arts & Humanities Touring program reaches all corners of the state. Avondale School District Capital Area District Library Kalamazoo Calhoun $400 $536 Auburn Hills South Branch $1,200 $600 Grayling Elementary School–Ausable Kalamazoo RESA–Education for A joint project of the Michigan Humanities Council and Michigan Council for Oakland Lansing Dicken Elementary School PTO First Congregational Church Primary School the Arts Arts & Cultural Affairs, the Arts & Humanities Touring program helps connect our $238 Ingham Ann Arbor Battle Creek Grayling Portage community nonprofits with some of the best performers in the state. The directory, Baldwin Public Library $118 Washtenaw Calhoun Crawford Kalamazoo Birmingham Capital Area District Library $572 $920 $1,280 $3,000 housed online at www.michiganhumanities.org, includes a juried selection of Oakland South Branch Dicken Elementary School PTO First Congregational Church Hamilton-Parsons Elementary Kalamazoo RESA–Education for Michigan’s top 175 performers available for booking by local nonprofits. Michigan $400 Lansing Ann Arbor Battle Creek School the Arts nonprofits—such as libraries, community organizations, schools and more—can Bark River-Harris Schools Ingham Washtenaw Calhoun Leonard Portage $150 request grant support to help bring these performers into their community—funds Harris $196 $800 Oakland Kalamazoo Menominee Capital Area District Library Dickinson County Library First United Methodist Church $1,014 $1,000 pay up to 40 percent of a performer’s fee. $298 South Branch Iron Mountain of Grand Rapids Hartland High School Kalamazoo RESA–Education for Lansing For more information on these grants and the Touring Directory, please contact Beadle Lake Elementary Dickinson Grand Rapids Hartland the Arts Battle Creek Ingham $313 Kent Livingston Portage Gina Schreck—[email protected] or (517) 372-7770. Calhoun $130 Dickinson East Elementary School $1,320 $340 Kalamazoo BY THE NUMBERS $654 Carlson Elementary School Hamtramck Fremont Area District Library Highland Township Public Library $3,000 Belleville Area District Library Warren Wayne Fremont Highland Kirk in the Hills Presbyterian Church $415,298 Grantee Cost Share Belleville Macomb $256 Newaygo Oakland Bloomfield Hills $428 $130 $230 Oakland $80,040 Awarded in Grants Wayne Dort Elementary School $400 Charter Township of Orion Roseville Friends of the Cadillac Wexford Hilton Elementary School $280 59,976 Attendees Berrien RESA Lake Orion Macomb Library Brighton Kirtland Center for the Performing 210 Berrien Springs Oakland $550 Cadillac Livingston Arts 210 Events Berrien $320 Douglass Houghton PTA Wexford $238 Roscommon Events 150 Benefiting Organizations $2,208 Charter Township of Orion White Lake $200 Hunter Family School Association Roscommon Big Bay De Noc School Lake Orion Oakland Friends of the Cadillac Wexford Brownstown Twp $1,600 Cooks Oakland $240 Library Wayne Lake Margrethe Property Owners $320 From top (L-R): Scheer Genius Assembly Shows Delta Duvall Elementary School Cadillac $992 Association perform at Fremont Area District Library; courtesy $238 Cherokee Elementary School Dearborn Wexford Huron Academy Grayling Fremont Area District Library. Happendance Blair Memorial Library Clinton Township Wayne $340 Sterling Heights Crawford performs at a showcase; credit Chrissy Psaros. Clawson Macomb $310 Gill Elementary School PTA Macomb $1,160 Chautauqua Express performs for West Bloomfield Oakland $238 Eastland Middle School Farmington Hills $700 Lakeshore Museum Center Parks and Recreation; courtesy West Bloomfield $200 Chesterfield Township Library Roseville Oakland Ida Civic Club Muskegon Parks and Recreation. Students participate in a Burger Center School Chesterfield Macomb $258 Ida Muskegon school assembly; courtesy Meadowbrook Elementary. Garden City Macomb $190 Monroe $120 Wayne $160 $480 2012 Annual Report $238www.michiganhumanities.org Livingston Christian School Michigan Opera Theatre Novi Community Schools Presque Isle Twp. Parks & Recreation St. Clair County Community College Washington Elementary School Pinckney Detroit Novi Presque Isle Port Huron Washington “Our MHC planning grant provided the funds needed to Livingston Wayne Oakland Presque Isle Saint Clair Macomb $170 $3,000 $320 $290 $720 $238 secure a well-known historian, Jim Clary, to research the Lorenzo Cultural Center Milan Area Schools Our Shepherd Lutheran School Putnam District Library St. Mary Elementary School West Bloomfield Parks & Recreation Clinton Township Milan Birmingham Nashville Mount Clemens West Bloomfield details surrounding the Superior City shipwreck, which we later Macomb Monroe Oakland Shiawassee Ottawa Oakland used to develop a proposal for our major media grant. His $10,685 $318 $360 $238 $170 $1,052 $238 Lorenzo Cultural Center Mill Creek Middle School Owosso Amphitheater Association Reynolds Township Library St. Mary School West Bloomfield Parks & Recreation information was critical to the creation of our documentary Awarded in Grants Clinton Township Dexter Owosso Howard City Westphalia West Bloomfield film, ‘Stowaway,’ which covers this Great Lakes shipwreck and Macomb Washtenaw Shiawassee Montcalm Clinton Oakland $175 $300 $520 $200 $590 $170 the aftermath of the court’s decision regarding the responsibility Manistique Area Schools Monroe Recreation Department Owosso Amphitheater Association Ridge Wood Elementary School PTA Surline Elementary School White Lake Township Library Manistique Monroe Owosso Northville West Branch White Lake of the two ship captains involved in this tragedy.” Schoolcraft Monroe Shiawassee Wayne Ogemaw Oakland Martha Navarro, Port Huron Area School District Grant Writer $238 $280 $600 $238 $840 $180 Marine City Music Festival, Inc. Montessori Children’s Academy Owosso Public Schools Rochester Community Schools The City of Marlette Wood Creek Elementary School Marine City Clinton Township Owosso Rochester Marlette Farmington Hills Saint Clair Macomb Shiawassee Oakland Sanilac Oakland $1,000 $190 $360 $440 $380 $190 Marine City Music Festival, Inc. Morton Elementary School Paddock Elementary School Rochester Community Schools The Plainwell Downtown Woodside Elementary School Quick & Planning Grants Marine City Marysville Milan Rochester Development Authority Holland Saint Clair Saint Clair Washtenaw Oakland Plainwell Ottawa $600 $528 $400 $440 Allegan $520 In 2012, there were 21 organizations that took advantage of the Michigan Mather Elementary School Mythopoeic Society PIX Arts Council for Greater Rodgers Elementary School $356 Humanities Council’s lesser-known granting opportunities. For projects that fall Munising Napoleon Lapeer, Inc. Saint Clair Shores Trinity Lutheran School outside the standard design and deadline of our popular major grants, we invite all Oakland Jackson Lapeer Macomb Clinton Township Michigan nonprofits to consider a quick or planning grant. $190 $340 Lapeer $1,052 Monroe Touring Grants will Maurice M. Wilde Elementary PTO Naldrett Elementary PTO $210 Roosevelt Elementary School $238 Planning grants, up to $1,000, are awarded to those organizations that need Warren Chesterfield PIX Arts Council for Greater Keego Harbor University Of Michigan–Dearborn open for applications funding assistance with project planning in order to ready a project for an Macomb Macomb Lapeer, Inc. Oakland Dearborn eventual major grant proposal. Planning expenses include honoraria and travel $260 $820 Lapeer $238 Wayne in the fall of 2013. Call Meadow Brook Theatre New Buffalo Arts Council Lapeer Schickler Elementary School $200 for humanities professionals or consultants assisting in development of a public Rochester New Buffalo $360 Lapeer University Of Michigan–Dearborn humanities project. Oakland Berrien PIX Arts Council for Greater Lapeer Fair Lane Music Guild us at (517) 372-7770 $200 $920 Lapeer, Inc. $258 Dearborn Quick grants, up to $500, are awarded to organizations with a small need for Meadow Brook Theatre Newaygo County Council for the Lapeer Shepherd of the Lakes Lutheran Wayne funding public humanities projects. Expenses may include exhibit rental, book Rochester Arts, Inc. Lapeer School $160 or visit our website for Oakland Fremont $280 Brighton University Of Michigan–Dearborn purchase, speaker fees, honoraria and travel, promotion and much more. $200 Newaygo PIX Arts Council for Greater Livingston Fair Lane Music Guild more information. If you would like to learn more about quick and planning grants, please contact $266 Lapeer, Inc. $280 Dearborn Meadow Brook Theatre Robbe DiPietro—[email protected] or (517) 372-7770. Rochester Niles District Library Lapeer Silver Maples of Chelsea Wayne Oakland Niles Lapeer Chelsea $480 BY THE NUMBERS $200 Berrien $1,380 Washtenaw University Of Michigan–Dearborn Meadow Brook Theatre $236 Plymouth District Library $400 Fair Lane Music Guild $200,230 Grantee Cost Share Rochester Niles District Library Plymouth Springfield Township Library Dearborn 73 $10,685 Awarded in Grants Oakland Niles Wayne Davisburg Wayne $240 Events $600 Berrien Oakland $160 6,654 Attendees Meadowbrook Elementary PTA $180 Port Huron Museum $320 Very Special Arts Committee/ 73 Events Port Huron WELC Novi Northern Lakes Community Mental St Stephen School 21 Benefiting Organizations Oakland Health Saint Clair Saginaw Portage $238 Traverse City $1,400 Saginaw Kalamazoo From top left: Viewing an exhibit; courtesy Madonna University. At the Michigan Historic Preservation Conference. Michigan Festivals & Events Grand Traverse Poupard Elementary School $540 $320 At a one-day conference for Rally of Writers. Melissa Hollingsworth for Michigan Historic Preservation Network. Foundation $788 Harper Woods St. Clair County Community College Washington Elementary School Chesaning Northport Community Arts Center Wayne Port Huron Marysville Saginaw Northport $238 Saint Clair Saint Clair $1,420 Leelanau $600 $1,020 $1,000 2012 Annual Report www.michiganhumanities.org 2012 QUICK Grants 2012 MAJOR Grants “We were thrilled when we learned the Michigan Humanities Council would help us achieve Organization/City/County/Grant Award Organization/City/County/Grant Award our goal of developing a one-of-a-kind interpretive trail! Without the Council’s support, it is unlikely we would have been able to marshal the resources to create the intricate, A Rally of Writers, Inc. Historical Society Of Greater Polish Genealogical Society of Charles H Wright Museum Of Kerrytown BookFest Pewabic Pottery detailed displays, the life-size ‘cultural docents’ who guide visitors along the trail, and Lansing Lansing Michigan African American History Ann Arbor Detroit Ingham Lansing Detroit Detroit Washtenaw Wayne the accompanying audio components. It was a huge project, and we are so grateful to $500 Ingham Wayne Wayne $4,125 $8,500 the Humanities Council who recognized that this was not a project about science and Artworks: Big Rapids $495 $500 $14,500 Lake Superior State University Port Huron Area School Big Rapids Hope College Port Huron Area School City Of Wyandotte Sault Ste. Marie District astronomy, but instead one that reconnects humanity to the stars, the planets and stories Mecosta Holland District Wyandotte Chippewa Port Huron of the night sky.” $500 Ottawa Port Huron Wayne $2,930 Saint Clair Bay City Public Schools $500 Saint Clair $14,500 Library of Michigan $15,000 Beth Ann Piehl, Emmet County on MHC support for Dark Sky Park interpretive trail Bay City Jackson District Library $1,000 Eastern Michigan University Lansing Presque Isle District Library Bay Jackson Reed City Public Library Ypsilanti Ingham Rogers City $500 Jackson Reed City Washtenaw $15,000 Presque Isle Bayliss Public Library $500 Osceola $14,909 Marquette Regional History $14,907 Sault Ste. Marie Madonna University $300 Edsel & Eleanor Ford House Center Saginaw Valley State Chippewa Livonia Underground Railroad Society Grosse Pointe Shores Marquette University Major Grants $200 Wayne of Cass County Macomb Marquette University Center The Michigan Humanities Council Major Grant program is perhaps the one $500 Vandalia $7,500 $3,714 Bay Detroit Historical Society that most-transforms our Michigan communities. From the smaller cultural Detroit Michigan Historic Preservation Cass Emmet County Michigan History Foundation $12,500 Wayne Network $500 Petoskey Lansing Traverse City Area Public organizations to big-city museums, our major grants fund projects that draw $500 Lansing United Daughters of the Emmet Ingham Schools everyone out for cultural opportunities. East Lansing Public Library Ingham Confederacy, Thomas Ryan $12,500 $14,500 Traverse City In 2012, we saw the creation of a discovery trail in one of the world’s few Dark $500 2689 Grand Traverse East Lansing Fiction Writers Review Michigan Maritime Museum Sky Parks, a discussion series in southwest Michigan chronicling maritime wars on Ingham Michigan State Historic Parks White Lake Ann Arbor South Haven $14,500 $500 Livonia Oakland Washtenaw Van Buren University Musical Society the Great Lakes, a literary discussion and festival in Ann Arbor, and exhibit and Fremont Area District Library Wayne $200 $14,980 $4,032 Ann Arbor programming on the history of the canoe in the Upper Peninsula city of Marquette. Fremont $500 Friends of Theodore Roethke Michigan Roundtable for Washtenaw Major grants are open to Michigan nonprofit organizations seeking funds to support Newaygo Model T Automotive Heritage Saginaw Diversity and Inclusion $14,500 $500 Detroit Saginaw Detroit Western Michigan University quality cultural programming. Projects may include lectures and discussions, Friends of the Cadillac Wexford Wayne $11,981 Wayne Kalamazoo exhibits, performing arts, and much more. All projects should be open to the public Library $500 Grand Valley State University $8,500 Kalamazoo at little or no cost. $10,000 Cadillac Pentwater High School Allendale Michigan State University If you would like to learn more about our major grants, please contact Robbe Wexford Pentwater Ottawa East Lansing White Lake Community Library $500 Oceana $14,500 Ingham Whitehall DiPietro—[email protected] or (517) 372-7770. Grace A. Dow Memorial Library $375 History Center of Traverse City $13,482 Muskegon BY THE NUMBERS Midland Piast Institute Traverse City Michigan Technological $14,500 Midland Pigeon Grand Traverse University Archives Wild Swan Theater $943,911 Leveraged in Cost Share 30 $500 Huron $14,746 Houghton Ann Arbor $350,851 Awarded Grand Valley State University $500 InsideOut Literary Arts Project Houghton Washtenaw 116,352 Attendees* From top (L–R): Re-enactors line Grantees up at the annual Fort St. Joseph Allendale Pinckney Community High Detroit $14,500 $14,500 148 Events* archaeological dig; courtesy Ottawa School Wayne Neutral Zone Teen Center 30 Grantees Western Michigan University. $500 Pinckney $14,500 Ann Arbor Actors perform Shipwrecked!; Hazel Park Memorial Library Livingston John Glenn High School Washtenaw *partial numbers reporting—program ongoing courtesy Wild Swan Theater. Hazel Park $500 Westland $10,000 Visitors explore a literary festival; Oakland Wayne courtesy Kerrytown BookFest. $500 $6,545 Students learn the history of the canoe; courtesy Marquette Regional History Center.

2012 Annual Report www.michiganhumanities.org “We have hosted several major events in the past, but attaching “Our school has been incorporating the Great Michigan Read program selection books into the name ‘Smithsonian’ to our library, community, and our our curriculum since (2007). I cannot express enough my appreciation for the program events gave us exposure and attention that we have not been with its quality, thoughtful selections, student companion websites, supplemental guides, able to achieve by traditional means. So many people who author talks, participating school exhibits and activities, teaching materials, grant have never visited Cromaine District Library or Hartland came programs, and the very supportive Michigan Humanities Council staff. We have enjoyed to see the Smithsonian exhibit. It really was a special time all the program has to offer, and it has provided my students with opportunities for deep, for our community. Young and old visited—and attended our educational, transformational thinking! I highly recommend participation!” programs that related to the exhibit. It expanded our reach into southeastern Michigan.” Dianna Behl, M.E.d., English Language Arts/District Literacy Instructional Coach at Top–Bottom (L–R): L: Carol Taggart, Joan LundBorg, John Beck and Pinckney Community High School Carol Taggart, Marketing Manager, Cromaine District Library in Hartland Terri Cobb at the exhibit opening in Rogers City. A woman looking at 6,152 Attendees* 296 Partners the local work exhibit at Southwestern Michigan College in Dowagiac.

Great Michigan Read The Way We Worked There are plenty of community reads, but in Michigan there’s only one statewide The history of work—our careers, uniforms and daily travel—are how we identify read—the Great Michigan Read! This biennial reading initiative invites all ourselves. Over time, our careers may change but our work history plays a role in Michiganians—from youth to senior—to explore our history, present and future our identities. The Way We Worked, a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition, through a single literary title. brought the history of our American workforce to Michigan’s rural cities in 2012. Selected by a grassroots committee of librarians, teachers, literary professionals Coordinated in Michigan by the Michigan Humanities Council, the family-friendly and more, the title is written by a Michigan author and set in Michigan. With thanks exhibit made stops in six rural cities throughout the 2012-13 years, and explored to our donors, all registered partners receive free supplemental materials—such the importance of work in American culture by tracing the changes that affected as reader’s and teacher’s guides—and select nonprofits are eligible to receive free the workforce and environment over the past 150 years. The exhibit used copies of the book. We’ve teamed up with libraries, high schools, universities, historic images, objects and interactive components to identify work as seen by religious organizations and more to build this successful program. individuals and communities throughout the country. Exhibit hosts included local In 2011-12, the Great Michigan Read engaged nearly 300 partners in 59 of programming—varying from large photo exhibitions to evening lectures. John Beck, Michigan’s 83 counties for discussion on housing segregation and gentrification associate professor in the School of Human Resources and Labor Relations at with Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age written by Michigan State University, served as state scholar. Host/City/County Detroit native and Ohio State University History Professor Kevin Boyle. The exhibit toured the Presque Isle County Historical Museum (Rogers City) and Cromaine District Library/Hartland/Livingston Please contact Carla Ingrando—[email protected] or (517) 372-7770—to Southwestern Michigan College (Dowagiac) in 2012. The tour continued into 2013 Escanaba Public Library/Escanaba/Delta learn more about the Great Michigan Read and our current title, Annie’s Ghosts by at the Cromaine District Library (Hartland), Bay College (Escanaba), Pere Marquette Hart Area Public Library/Hart/Oceana District Library (Clare), and Hart Area Public Library (Hart). 59 Detroit native and Washington Post Associate Editor Steve Luxenberg. Pere Marquette District Library/Clare/Clare BY THE NUMBERS For more information on our traveling Smithsonian exhibitions, please contact Presque Isle County Historical Museum/Rogers City/ Counties Gina Schreck—[email protected] or (517) 372-7770. Presque Isle 459,962 Newspaper Inserts Southwestern Michigan College/Dowagiac/Cass 135,437 Event Attendees BY THE NUMBERS 31,909 Bookmarks Top–Bottom (L–R): Kevin Boyle, $7,000 Awarded to Sites 2011-12 Great Michigan Read 18,201 Reader’s Guides author. Kathryn Dove, mentioned 6,152 Attendees* 1,768 Teacher’s Guides in the book, with Kevin Boyle. Judge 30 Events* William Whitbeck and Kevin Boyle 642 Events at an author’s event. A youth group 6 Participating Sites 296 Partners with Kevin Boyle after an author’s *partial numbers reporting—program ongoing event. Photos credit Dave Trumpie. 59 Counties 2012 Annual Report www.michiganhumanities.org Statement of Statement of Overall Funding Show Your SUPPORT

8% The Michigan Humanities Council relies on our donors to continue building FINANCIAL POSITION ACTIVITIES For the 12 Months Ending October 31, 2012 a stronger, more cultural state. Thanks to you we are able to provide Program Services nonprofits with the grant funds needed to host important events, for OCTOBER 31, 2012 20.1% 38.4% Grants students to learn and find passion in poetry, for libraries to suppl Assets Revenue Management & General books for statewide discussion, and much more. Will you become a Fundraising Unrestricted Cash...... $396,527 National Endowment for the Humanities...... $966,070 supporter of Michigan culture? Make a donation today by visiting us at 33.5% Investments in Certificates of Deposit...... $46,560 Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs...... $82,497 www.michiganhumanities.org or calling (517) 372-7770 to learn more. Grant Receivables...... $401,970 Donations...... $66,311 Prepaid Expenses...... $7,485 Programs...... $22,448 Endowment Investments...... $40,721 Interest Income...... $508 Join the MAILING LIST Property and Equipment Total Revenue...... $1,137,834 The Michigan Humanities Less Accumulated Depreciation...... $77,982 Program Funding Distribution Council does our best to Expenses Rent Deposit...... $1,000 spread word of exciting Total Assets...... $972,245 Program Services...... $498,819 news and programming Grants...... $435,310 opportunities. If you would Liabilities 16.6% Operating Expenses...... $261,006 Poetry Out Loud like to join our mailing list, 33% Accounts Payable...... $5,588 Fundraising...... $104,572 Prime Time Family Reading Time® or change your current subscription preferences, please visit our Accrued Expenses...... $4,443 Total Expenses...... $1,299,707 Great Michigan Read website at www.michiganhumanities.org, contact Kate Bartig at The Way We Worked Grant Contracts Payable...... $274,539 25% [email protected] or call (517) 372-7770. Total Liabilities...... $284,570 Net Assets 25.7% You can select to receive print, digital or both forms of communication. Beginning of the Year...... $849,548 Net Assets Print options include a quarterly events postcard—specific to your region, End of the Year...... $687,675 and bi-annual print newsletter. Digital options include a monthly e-blast Unrestricted...... $327,623 with statewide calendar of humanities events, and occasional email Temporarily Restricted...... $324,487 A mural painted on the walls of Armory Arts updates of noteworthy news. Permanently Restricted...... $35,565 Village in Jackson. The Grant Awards Distribution Total Net Assets...... $687,675 building once served as Michigan’s first state prison 2% and is now an apartment 2% Find us ONLINE Total Liabilities and Net Assets...... $972,245 building with artist studios. 3% Murals were painted Major Grants Find breaking news, program updates and office happenings by finding us throughout the building Arts & Humanities Touring telling the history of the 17% online at www.michiganhumanities.org, or on Facebook and Twitter. first state prison. The Quick & Planning Grants project grant was awarded 76% Prime Time Family Reading Time® MichiganHumanitiesCouncil to Enterprise Group The Way We Worked Community Ventures Corporation. @mihumanities

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