The Long Island Public Humanities Opportunity is a Humanities New York (HNY) initiative funded by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation. The initiative will partner with history presenting institutions and community-based organizations in Long Island to enhance networks and programming that resonate with traditionally underserved audiences and communities. To do so, HNY will first conduct four focus groups in Suffolk County – one each in Huntington, Port Jefferson, Riverhead, and Rockville Center – with historians, humanities practitioners, institutional leaders, other key community stakeholders. Starting in January, these focus groups will identify topics and challenges that these participants face, which will then be used to inform the planning and implementation of a series of capacity-building workshops and "clinics" that HNY will run later in the year for those participants and the Long Island humanities community at-large.