Grants will help museums and other cultural institutions foster greater understanding of religion

INDIANAPOLIS – Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded grants to 33 museums, libraries, historic sites and other organizations across the United States to develop exhibitions and education programs and engage in other related activities that provide fair, accurate and balanced portrayals of the role religion has played and continues to play in the U.S. and around the world.

The Endowment made the grants through the latest round of its Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative, a national initiative launched in 2019 that is supporting efforts to improve the public understanding of religion and, as a result, foster greater knowledge of and respect for people of diverse religious traditions.

Totaling nearly $79 million, the grants will support a broad mix of organizations that will launch a wide range of projects on religion and religious themes. The organizations include, among others, the American Writers Museum in Chicago, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Mass., and Kiewit Luminarium in Omaha, Neb. | More

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