Deadline: 16-Jul-2020
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Education Programs is accepting applications for the five Humanities Initiatives programs: Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities, Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Humanities Initiatives at Tribal Colleges and Universities, and Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges.
This notice solicits applications for the five Humanities Initiatives programs:
- Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
- The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program supports projects that provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. This program strengthens efforts to extend the life of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology. Awards are also made to create various reference resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation.
- Proposed projects may address the holdings or activities of a single institution or may involve collaboration between institutions. However, even in the case of single-institution projects, working with specialists in other offices or departments or colleagues in other institutions often helps ensure that proposed activities are achievable and will have maximum impact for the humanities. Collaboration can be crucial in providing the appropriate mix of humanities content and methodological expertise and can help broaden the scope of, and audiences for, proposed collections or reference resources.
- Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges
- Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges support community colleges’ commitment to educating students on a variety of educational and career paths. The program funds curricular and faculty development projects that help strengthen humanities programs and/or incorporate humanistic approaches in fields outside the humanities.
- Each project must be organized around a core topic or set of themes, drawn from humanities areas of studies such as history, philosophy, religion, literature, and composition and writing skills. Each project must also incorporate a broader institutional vision for the humanities at a community college.
- Humanities Initiatives at Tribal Colleges and Universities
- Humanities Initiatives at Tribal Colleges and Universities help strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities by developing new humanities programs, resources, or courses, or by enhancing existing ones. Applicants are encouraged to draw on the knowledge of outside scholars who would contribute expertise and fresh insights to the project.
- Each project must be organized around a core topic or set of themes drawn from areas of study in the humanities, such as history, philosophy, religion, literature, and composition and writing skills.
- Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities help strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities by developing new humanities programs, resources, or courses, or by enhancing existing ones. Applicants are encouraged to draw on the knowledge of outside scholars who would contribute expertise and fresh insights to the project.
- Each project must be organized around a core topic or set of themes drawn from areas of study in the humanities such as history, philosophy, religion, literature, and composition and writing skills.
- Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
- Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions help strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities by developing new humanities programs, resources, or courses, or by enhancing existing ones. Applicants are encouraged to draw on the knowledge of outside scholars who would contribute expertise and fresh insights to the project.
- Each project must be organized around a core topic or set of themes drawn from areas of study in the humanities such as history, philosophy, religion, literature, and composition and writing skills. For examples, see the sample project narratives, which are available on the program resource page. Applicants are also encouraged to read the sample project narratives of three closely related programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Humanities Initiatives at Tribal Colleges and Universities; and Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges.
The purpose of these programs is to strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education by developing new humanities programs, resources (including those in digital format), or courses, or by enhancing existing ones.
Projects must be organized around a core topic or set of themes drawn from such areas of study in the humanities as history, philosophy, religion, literature, and composition and writing skills.
NEH welcomes applications for projects that are modest in scope, duration, and budget, as well as applications for expansive, long-term projects.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Annual Available: $3,000,000
- Funding Range: Up to $150,000
- Period of Performance: One to three years, starting as early as February 1, 2021
Eligibility Criteria
- The Humanities Initiatives programs are for U.S. accredited public or 501(c)(3) private institutions of higher education.
- Institutions may apply for more than one Humanities Initiatives program, but cannot submit the same proposal to more than one of the five HI programs.
- Applicant institutions that are eligible to submit a proposal to Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Humanities Initiatives at Tribal Colleges and Universities, or Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges are encouraged to do so.
- Individuals, foreign, and for-profit entities are not eligible to apply.
- Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities
- U.S. accredited public or 501(c)(3) private institutions of higher education are eligible to apply. Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions U.S. accredited public or 501(c)(3) private Hispanic-Serving Institutions of higher education are eligible to apply.
- Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- U.S. accredited public or 501(c)(3) private Historically Black Colleges and Universities, as defined by Executive Order 13532, are eligible to apply.
- Humanities Initiatives at Tribal Colleges and Universities
- U.S. Tribal Colleges and Universities, as defined by Executive Order 13592, whether they are tribally controlled or a nonprofit with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, are eligible to apply.
- Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges
- U.S. accredited public or 501(c)(3) private community colleges and post-secondary two-year institutions of higher education are eligible to apply.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=327436