Deadline: 7-Dec-21
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC), with the support of National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is inviting applications from colleges, universities, and nonprofit humanities research or educational organizations (with 501(c)(3) status) located in the United States Sustaining Humanities Infrastructure Program (SHIP) to support staffing, programming, and operations in order to—in keeping with Congress’s intention—restore, sustain, and recover from the coronavirus.
SSRC / NEH SHIP will award grants of up to $ 100,000 to humanities organizations seeking relief and planning for recovery in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, offering support to the full spectrum of humanities infrastructure — the people, projects, and resources — at the core of humanities scholarship and teaching.
Areas
Applicants must address how they have been adversely impacted by the pandemic in their applications, consistent with the purposes of the American Rescue Plan. Possible areas of support include (but are not limited to):
- Support for staffing, including students or research assistants, at a humanities center or other humanities institution whose activities are under threat due to funding restrictions related to the pandemic
- Departmental, college, or university-level efforts to examine and produce concrete steps, including revised tenure and promotion guidelines and timelines, to address the disproportionate impact the pandemic has had on humanities scholars, particularly women, people of color, caregivers, and other vulnerable populations
- Funds to help sustain critical humanities projects that are used widely by researchers or teachers, particularly those that address inequality or reach underserved populations
- Strengthening college and university instruction by developing, refining, or preserving online or hybrid humanities curricula to build resilience in humanities education
- Providing essential services, programming, and support to sustain the next generation of humanities scholars (such as current humanities PhD students) in the wake of the pandemic, particularly through the lens of strengthening diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Funding to rebuild live or virtual programming to regain or expand access to humanities content for public audiences
Funding Information
Applicants may request no more than $ 100,000 in support for a performance period of no more than one year (12 months). Projects may begin as early as April 1, 2022, and must begin no later than June 1, 2022. Projects must conclude no later than May 31, 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
- SHIP supports humanities organizations seeking relief and planning for recovery in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, consistent with the purposes of the American Rescue Plan.
- Eligible institutions include: accredited public and 501 (c) (3) institutions of higher education and US nonprofit organizations with 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt status. If an American organization located overseas receives an award, funding cannot be used to support non-US citizens. Foreign and for-profit entities are not eligible as subrecipients.
- Organizations must have a record of achievement in the humanities and the proposed projects may not engage in activities outside the humanities (eg, the creation or performance of art).
- Multiple proposals may be submitted from a single institution. However, if more than one proposal is submitted from an institution, the activities must be substantially different and the Principal Investigator and staffing must also be distinctive from any other submitted proposals.
- Organizations that received American Rescue Plan funds directly from NEH are not eligible to be subrecipients under this program. Organizations that received funding through the 2020 CARES Act are eligible to be subrecipients under this program. The 56 state and jurisdictional humanities councils and interim partners are not eligible subrecipients under this notice.
- Priority is given to projects and institutions that emphasize topics, themes, and approaches related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as applications from minority-serving institutions (MSIs).
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