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NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES

OPEN GRANTS

America's Historical and Cultural Organizations
NEH's America's Historical and Cultural Organizations grants support humanities projects that encourage dialogue, discussion and civic engagement. Planning and implementation grants are available.
America's Media Makers: Development & Production Grants
NEH's America's Media Makers program supports projects in the humanities that explore stories, ideas and beliefs. Both production and development grants are available.
Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges
NEH will make 7-9 grants of $120,000 for projects that use collaboration with humanities institutions to enrich humanities education and scholarship at community colleges.
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
This NEH program awards two levels of grants, both of which support projects that employ digital technology to improve humanities research, education, preservation, access and public programming.
Enduring Questions
This NEH grant program supports the development of a new undergraduate course that will foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question.
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
This NEH program funds efforts to extend the life of important collections of books, photographs, sound recordings, movings images, artifacts, art and material culture and digital objects.
Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
The NEH will grant awards of up to $100,000 for projects that strengthen and enrich humanities education at historically black colleges and universities.
Programming Grants to Accompany NEH On the Road Exhibitions
NEH will award grants of $1,000 for activities to accompany the NEH on the Road traveling exhibitions. Stations should consider partnering with eligible humanities organizations.

UPCOMING, ROLLING, CLOSED

Bridging Cultures Initiative: Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle
NEH will award up to $1,200 to 500 organizations to host community programming events and discussions on the history of civil rights in America. Deadline is extended to 5/15/13.
Bridging Cultures through Film
This NEH program supports projects that examine international and transnational themes in the humanities through documentary films.
Bridging Cultures: Implementation Grants for Public Programs on "Civility and Democracy" or "The Muslim World and the Humanities"
This NEH program funds proposals to implement a national or regional program for public audiences on one of two humanities themes: "Civility and Democracy" or "The Muslim World and the Humanities."
Challenge Grants for Two-year Colleges
This NEH program funds proposals to strengthen humanities programs and resources at two-year colleges.
Collaborative Research Grants
NEH will make grants of up to $100,000 for research projects with an emphasis on disseminating findings to scholarly and public audiences.
Digital Humanities Implementation Grants
This new NEH program funds innovative digital humanities projects. Awards will range from $100,000 to $325,000, and NEH expects to make three to five awards.
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
NEH will award grants of up to $250,000 to host workshops on the digital humanities to increase the number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their research and teaching.
Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers
National Endowment for the Humanities offers up to $180,000 to host teacher workshops on landmarks of American history and culture.
National Digital Newspaper Program
NEH is seeking participants for the National Digital Newspaper Program, a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published 1836 - 1922. Deadline: 1/17/13.
NEH Challenge Grant
NEH challenge grants help institutions and organizations secure long-term improvements and support for their humanities programs and resources while strengthening their commmitment to the humanities.
Picturing America School Collaboration Projects
This NEH program fosters collaboration between K-12 teachers and humanities scholars to encourage engagement with the Picturing America images.
Preservation and Access Education and Training
The purpose of this NEH program is to preserve and establish access to cultural heritage resources including books, manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings, electronic records and digital objects.
Preservation and Access Research and Development Grant
The NEH will grant up to $350,000 to support projects that address challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources.
Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions
This NEH program provides funds to help small and mid-sized institutions improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections.
Scholarly Editions and Translations
This NEH program supports the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts and documents that are currently inaccessible or available in inadequate editions. Deadline: 12/6/12.
Small Grants to Libraries and Nonprofits
NEH offers 50 grants up to $2,500 to host documentary film screenings and scholar-led discussions of 20th century American popular music.
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
This NEH program helps cultural institutions preserve large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting preventive conservation measures. Deadline: 12/4/12.