Deadline: 15 May 2019
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is seeking applications for its Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants program to strengthen the institutional base of the humanities by enabling infrastructure development and capacity building.
Awards aim to help institutions secure long-term support for their core activities and expand efforts to preserve and create access to outstanding humanities materials. Applications are welcome from colleges and universities, museums, public libraries, research institutions, historical societies and historic sites, scholarly associations, state humanities councils, and other public and nonprofit humanities entities. Programs that involve collaboration among multiple institutions are eligible as well, but one institution must serve as the lead applicant of record that will be legally, programmatically, and fiscally responsible for the award.
Activities
Activities supported by the Challenge Grant program include
- capital expenditures to support the following activities:
- the design, purchase, construction, restoration, or renovation of facilities and historic landscapes; and
- the purchase of equipment and software for humanities facilities, including but not limited to storage systems, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment, and climate control, lighting, security, and fire prevention systems.
- investment in a restricted, short-term endowment or other investment fund to support the following activities:
- the preservation and conservation of collections; and
- the sustaining of existing digital infrastructure for the humanities.
Award Information
- Award Ceiling:$750,000
- Award Floor:$1
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, provided that they work wholly or in part with the humanities: they must support research, education, preservation, or public programming in the humanities.
- Eligible organizations include institutions of higher education. Affiliated institutions (for example, a university museum) with separate 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status are also eligible to apply.
- In addition, the following entities are eligible to apply and are subject to the one-to-one matching requirement:
- public and 501(c)(3) nonprofit community colleges and post-secondary two-year institutions of higher education;
- public and nonprofit 501(c)(3) U.S. historically black colleges or universities. Eligible institutions are those included in the Department of Education’s list of HBCUs.
- public and nonprofit 501(c)(3) Hispanic-serving institutions of higher education
- Individuals and foreign and for-profit entities are not eligible to apply.
How to Apply
All organizations must submit their applications via the given website.
For more information, please visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=313804