The Friends Historical Association is pleased to offer funding to support contributions to the field of Quaker history. There are three grant opportunities: project support, publication subventions, and research funds. All opportunities run on the same cycle, and applications are due April 15, 2023. Details about each opportunity and application instruction are provided below.
Friends Historical Association Project Grant Guidelines
The Friends Historical Association (FHA) administers a program for funding projects that help shift the discipline of Quaker history to more richly represent the diversity
and diverse practices of Quakerism. This opportunity is intended for projects that are conceived by and benefit many people. (Individual research grants and subvention support are also available as separate opportunities from FHA).
Details about each opportunity and application instruction are provided at https://www.quakerhistory.org/grants.
Anticipated $5,000 in project grants will be awarded each year, with individual awards ranging from $500 up to a maximum of $5,000.
The FHA Board will prioritize:
• Projects that document or promote the history of Quaker communities beyond traditional centers (Philadelphia, London, and other concentrations in the U.S. and U.K.), and especially Quaker communities in the global South
• Projects that document or promote the stories of Quakers from historically marginalized groups (i.e. BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, etc.)
Previously funded projects include:
• Quaker Religious Education Collaborative, Africa Quaker Archive visiting archivist program, 2019
• Evangelical Friends of Burundi Church, Oral History Project, 2021
• Friends United Meeting, Africa Quaker Archive structural engineering planning, 2021
FHA Subvention Grant Guidelines
The Friends Historical Association administers a program for scholars publishing books on the history of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Publications should encourage–and promote among its members and the broader public–historical reading, research,
and writing in this field.
Anticipated $2,500 in subventions will be awarded each year, with individual awards ranging from $1,000 up to a maximum of $2,500.
While the program is intended to support any project related to Quaker history, priority will be given to first-time book authors who have already secured provisional contracts from established academic presses.
FHA Research Grant Guidelines
The Friends Historical Association administers a program for scholars researching the history of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Approximately $2,500 in funding will be awarded each year, with individual awards ranging from $1,000 up to a maximum of $2,500.
While the program is intended to support any project related to Quaker history, priority will be given to applicants whose identity and background, and/or their research areas, address absences or scarcities in the current landscape of Quaker scholarship particularly with regard to race or ethnicity, gender expression and sexual preference, disability, geographic location outside the historic centers of Quakerism (Philadelphia, London), or other historically marginalized group.