SC Humanities funds, promotes, counsels, and coordinates humanities programs: exhibits, documentaries, discussion forums, workshops, lectures, & more. South Carolina Humanities is the state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, serving the Palmetto State with inspiring, engaging, and enriching programming encouraging open dialogue. South Carolina Humanities' mission is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of all South Carolinians. Our vision is to be recognized for inspiring, engaging and enriching public humanities programs and initiatives. We seek to increase public understanding of and support for the humanities; telling the human story by awarding grants for high-quality public programs, by generating special humanities initiatives, and by bringing humanities perspectives to bear on contemporary issues.