Participatory experiences foster active learning and meaningful engagement with issues and ideas
Participation
The humanities strengthen connections within and between communities, enriching the lives of New Yorkers.
Community
Drawing on the riches of the humanities, New Yorkers discover common values and build a more civil society through reading, listening, discussing, posing questions, and seeking answers.
Understanding
Providing the broadest access to the humanities requires reaching across real and perceived barriers wherever they are found.
Access
The humanities can be mobilized quickly, efficiently, and creatively in ways that address emerging, urgent, and changing needs of New Yorkers.
Responsiveness
The mission of Humanities New York is to strengthen civil society and the bonds of community, using the humanities to foster engaged inquiry and dialogue around social and cultural concerns. To realize its mission, Humanities New York has identified three broad goals with attendant objectives to guide its work over the next three years.
Goal One
To expand the outreach and programming impact of HNY so that all New Yorkers may access the tools and experiences of the humanities.
To expand the outreach and programming impact of HNY so that all New Yorkers may access the tools and experiences of the humanities.
Goal Two
Reach vulnerable communities and other new audiences and to create programming to serve those communities.
Reach vulnerable communities and other new audiences and to create programming to serve those communities.
Goal Three
Expand outreach efforts that build the capacity of communities and organizations.
Expand outreach efforts that build the capacity of communities and organizations.
