Deadline: 16-May-23
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access is accepting applications for the Cultural and Community Resilience program.
This program supports community-based efforts to mitigate climate change and COVID-19 pandemic impacts, safeguard cultural resources, and foster cultural resilience through identifying, documenting, and/or collecting cultural heritage and community experience. The program prioritizes projects from disadvantaged communities in the United States or its jurisdictions, and NEH encourages applications that employ inclusive methodologies.
The CCR program contributes to the continuity of cultural heritage and its availability for future generations by supporting community-based projects that empower people to define, collect, and use cultural and historical resources. In addition, the CCR program recognizes the importance of documenting contemporary experiences with climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic and of deepening their understanding of their social, economic, and emotional impact on individuals and communities.
The CCR program supports activities such as:
- identifying and capturing cultural and historical resources, including through digital means, in communities potentially endangered by climate events, such as wildfires, drought, hurricanes, or rising sea levels;
- safeguarding cultural resources to mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic;
- collecting oral histories from individuals impacted by extreme weather events or the COVID-19 pandemic, including survivors and first responders;
- documenting traditional knowledge, memories of elders, practices, or technologies;
- engaging in collaborative planning efforts to prepare communities for rapid response collecting; and
- applying insights from cultural heritage identification and documentation projects to inform local and regional community resilience strategies.
Funding Information
- You may request up to $150,000. NEH will award successful applicants outright funds, which are not contingent on additional funding from other sources.
- NEH anticipates awarding approximately $1,500,000 among an estimated ten to fifteen recipients per deadline.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to apply, you must be established in the United States or its jurisdictions as one of the following organization types:
- a nonprofit organization recognized as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code
- an accredited institution of higher education (public or nonprofit)
- a state or local government or one of their agencies
- a federally recognized Native American Tribal government
For more information, visit NEH.