Deadline: 17-May-23
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Challenge Programs is accepting applications for Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants: Capital Projects.
This program supports the purchase, design, construction, restoration, or renovation of buildings or sites of national, historical, architectural, or cultural significance and facilities that house humanities collections or are used for humanities activities. Projects are financed through a combination of federal matching funds and related fundraising from nonfederal third parties. Proposals must enhance the institution’s long-term impact on the humanities and build on careful strategic planning.
This notice solicits applications for Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants: Capital Projects. The program strengthens the institutional base of the humanities by helping organizations secure and sustain their core buildings, sites, collections, and/or humanities activities for the long term. The program supports capital projects through a combination of federal matching funds and related fundraising from nonfederal third parties. Proposed projects must enhance the institution’s long-term impact on the humanities and build on careful strategic planning.
Awards support the purchase of real property or equipment and the design, construction, restoration, or renovation of buildings or sites of historical, architectural, or cultural significance and other facilities that house humanities collections or are used for humanities activities. Activities may include:
- hiring consultants who specialize in fundraising, historic preservation, and project planning
- planning and conceptual design
- developing schematics and construction drawings
- construction
- purchasing and installing related permanently affixed or moveable equipment for monitoring and protecting collections (whether on exhibit or in storage)
- purchasing and installing critical building systems, such as electrical, climate control, security, life safety, lighting, utilities, telecommunications, and energy management
- developing historic preservation plans
- site and infrastructure assessments.
Funding Information
- NEH anticipates approximately $6,500,000 to fund an estimated 15-20 recipients.
- You may request up to $150,000 for Level 1 awards. You may request between $150,001 and $500,000 for Level 2 awards.
- In rare circumstances, NEH may make Chair’s Special Awards between $500,001 and $1,000,000 for projects that will have a particularly significant impact on the humanities.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible to apply, your organization must be established in the United States or its jurisdictions as one of the following organization types:
- a nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status
- an accredited institution of higher education (public or 501(c)(3))
- a unit of state or local government
- a federally recognized Native American Tribal government
- Applicants must work wholly or in part in the humanities, and must support research, education, preservation, or public programming in the humanities.
- If your organization is eligible, you may apply on behalf of a consortium of collaborating organizations. If NEH selects your proposal for funding, you will be programmatically, legally, and fiscally responsible for the award.
- To be eligible, you must not function solely as a fiscal agent for another entity and must make substantive contributions to the success of the project.
- Individuals and other organizations, including federal, foreign and for-profit entities, are ineligible.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.