Deadline: 12-Jan-23
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access is accepting applications for the Cultural and Community Resilience program to support 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 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
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Special district governments
- State governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344138
