Deadline: 31 May 2018
The National Endowment for the Humanities is seeking applications for a program entitled “Common Heritage”.
The Common Heritage program aims to capture this vitally important part of their country’s heritage and preserve it for future generations. Common Heritage will support both the digitization of cultural heritage materials and the organization of outreach through community events that explore and interpret these materials as a window on the community’s history and culture.
Applicant institutions should
- plan the event with community input (and recruit partner institutions, if desired);
- secure a venue for the community event;
- identify the roles of partner institutions (if any); and
- make preparations to announce and promote the event and its programs.
Applicant and/or partner institutions should
- arrange for the purchase or loan of the necessary equipment, such as scanners, digital cameras, and computers, to handle the expected materials;
- identify experienced staff, who would perform the digitization and obtain information from members of the public about their materials, in order to create metadata for digital files;
- coordinate community participation and create a plan to enhance the community heritage day with programming that may be scheduled before, during, and/or after the digitization event, and to identify staff, who would plan and present the public programming;
- select the historical, cultural, or preservation topics to be explored in the public programming; and
- identify the appropriate humanities scholars or cultural heritage professionals to advise on the public programming.
Award information
- Grants of up to $12,000 will be awarded.
- All grants are awarded for a period of eighteen months, although a grantee may complete a project in a shorter period of time.
Eligibility Criteria
- U.S. nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, state and local governmental agencies, and federally recognized Native American tribal governments are eligible to apply.
- Eligible organizations include institutions of higher education.
- Individuals and foreign and for-profit entities are not eligible to apply.
- Eligible applicants may submit multiple applications for separate and distinct projects under this announcement.
- NEH generally does not award grants to other federal entities or to applicants whose projects are so closely intertwined with a federal entity that the project takes on characteristics of the federal entity’s own authorized activities. This does not preclude applicants from using grant funds from, or sites and materials controlled by, other federal entities in their projects.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply online via given website.
For more information, please visit Grants.gov.