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Grant applications, with completed budget forms, must be received by
October 10, 2011

Email or fax applications to Lizz Sinclair
e-mail: lizz@mainehumanities.org | 207.773.2416 (fax)

PLEASE NOTE:
The requirements have been revised—please read the new guidelines carefully. Changes to the guidelines are in red.

Thanks to donations to our Fund for Literature & Medicine, the Maine Humanities Council is able to offer $500 each to up to 10 Maine health care facilities to support Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care®. MHC support must be used to defray the cost of the facilitator stipend, and each applicant institution must agree to host Literature & Medicine in 2012 and commit to hosting and paying for the cost of the program again in 2013, if possible.

PLEASE READ THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS APPLICATION CAREFULLY; it asks your hospital/ institution to agree to very specific terms, some of which are new. These grants are competitive and we will accept applications from any health care institution in the state. We will review each application carefully and make decisions by October 12th.

Please know that when we evaluate applications we will take into consideration:

• the ability that the applicant has shown in the past and/or its capacity to work closely with MHC staff,
• follow MHC's guidelines in organizing the program,
• and its commitment to the program.

Questions?
Please contact Lizz Sinclair
lizz@mainehumanities.org | 773-5051 ext. 210

SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS will agree to host a Lit & Med group once in 2012 and to make its best effort to host the program again in 2013; and will guarantee that:

• Lit & Med groups will meet four to six times per year for at least two hours per meeting;
• The 2012 program will be completed by September, 2012;
• the Lit & Med groups will be open to ALL health care professionals within the health care facility and host community subject to size limitations;
• Lit & Med groups will have a minimum of 10 participants;
• the Lit & Med groups will be widely publicized within the relevant communities as the “Maine Humanities Council's Literature & Medicine Humanities at the Heart of Health Care® program”;
• Lit & Med groups will be free to participants OR have minimal or sliding scale fees so that cost is not a barrier;
• Meeting space is provided;
• a light supper will be provided if possible (strongly recommended but not required);
• there will be a person designated as the Liaison to work closely with MHC and the facilitator and attend the sessions;
• that the host site pays for the balance of the cost of the program after the $500 granted by MHC has been used to help defray the costs of the facilitator’s stipend in 2012. Host sites will be responsible for the cost of:
  • The remaining balance of the facilitator'’s stipend (Facilitator's are paid $300/ session)
  • Facilitator travel ($ .45/ mile)
  • Readings
  • Supper (optional but strongly suggested)

  The matching funds can come from any or all of the following:

  Host site budget/s, program endowments, grants, donations, and participant fees (PROVIDING THEY ARE NOT PROHIBITIVE FOR A RANGE OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS TO PARTICIPATE).

Please contact Lizz Sinclair with any questions.

Liaison responsibilities include:

• working closely with MHC staff;
• providing publicity for the Lit & Med group within the facility & community;
• working with MHC and the facilitator to select and obtain readings,
• distributing readings to participants;
• assisting in coordinating the administration of program evaluations and organizing focus groups with MHC as needed;
• communicating with participants, facilitator and MHC during the course of the program, as needed;
• attending the group meetings; and
• completing and returning MHC's "in-kind" contribution form.

PLEASE NOTE:
Lit & Med group facilitators are selected by MHC in consultation with the host site. The syllabus is created by the facilitator in consultation with the Maine Humanities Council and the liaison for the hosting site.

Guidelines and application, pdf file | Budget, excel file | Sample Budget, excel file