Only grant opportunities with current, published deadlines will appear on this list. Additional opportunities that are regularly, but not currently, available will appear under ‘Grants by Funder’ and ‘Grants by Program Area.’
May 9, 2018
BNHA: Heritage Investment Grants
Award Range: Up to $15,000 for non-capital programmatic support. Up to $10,000 for general operating support.
Match Required: 1:1 (cash only).
Heritage Investment Grants supports non-capital cultural heritage tourism projects and organizations within the boundaries of the Baltimore National Heritage Area. Eligible activities include planning, interpretation, programming and operating expenses that align with the 2013 Baltimore National Heritage Area Comprehensive Management Plan.
May 14, 2018
IMLS: Activating Community Opportunities Using Museums/Libraries as Assets
Award Range: Up to $150,000.
Match Required: 1:1.
This special call for proposals invites projects that will help library, archive, and museum (LAM) fields and their communities learn together how to build upon the unique abilities of LAMs to achieve positive change. Successful projects will exemplify how LAMs can provide trusted spaces for ongoing community dialog and exploration of the intersections between individual narratives. In addition, successful projects will demonstrate the viability of using and adapting existing approaches gleaned from the collective impact, social well-being, and community development arenas.
May 31, 2018
Award Range: Up to $12,000 (up to 18 months).
Match Required: None.
Common Heritage grants support both the digitization of cultural heritage materials and the organization of public programming at community events that explore these materials as a window on a community’s history and culture.
June 1, 2018
National Trust for Historic Preservation: National Trust Preservation Funds
Award Range: $2,500-$5,000 for 1 year.
Match Required: 1:1 (cash only).
National Trust Preservation Funds are intended to encourage preservation at the local level by providing seed money for preservation projects. These grants help stimulate public discussion, enable local groups to gain the technical expertise needed for particular projects, introduce the public to preservation concepts and techniques, and encourage financial participation by the private sector. Preservation priorities include building sustainable communities; re-imagining historic sites; promoting diversity and place; and protecting historic places on public lands.
June 5, 2018
Award Range: Up to $325,000 (for up to 3 years).
Match Required: None.
Digital Humanities Advancement Grants (DHAG) support digital projects throughout their lifecycles, from early start-up phases through implementation and long-term sustainability. DHAG may involve: (1) creating or enhancing experimental, computationally-based methods or techniques that contribute to the humanities; (2) pursuing scholarship that examines the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital culture and its impact on society, or explores the philosophical or practical implications and impact of digital humanities in specific fields or disciplines; or (3) revitalizing and/or recovering existing digital projects that promise to contribute substantively to scholarship, teaching, or public knowledge of the humanities.
June 6, 2018
NEH: Digital Projects for the Public
Award Range: Discovery Grant: up to $30,000; Prototyping Grant: up to $100,000; Production Grant: up to $400,000.
Match Required: None.
Digital Projects for the Public supports digital projects designed to enhance the public’s interactions with the humanities. This program offers three levels of support: Discovery, Prototyping and Production.
June 7, 2018
Award Range: Tier I (planning and basic research) – up to $75,000 for up to 2 years. Tier II (advanced implementation) – up to $350,000 for up to 3 years.
Match Required: None.
Research & Development grants support projects that offer innovative solutions to the significant challenges faced in preserving or accessing humanities collections and resources. All projects must demonstrate how advances in preservation and access would benefit the cultural heritage community in supporting humanities research, teaching, or public programming.
June 13, 2018
Award Range: Up to $200,000 (for one year).
Match Required: 50%.
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks proposals to publish documentary editions of historical records. Projects may focus on the papers of major figures from American history or cover broad historical movements in politics, military, business, social reform, the arts, and other aspects of the national experience.
June 29, 2018
Note: this is the last call for proposals for this program.
Award Range: $5,000-$50,000.
Match Required: None.
Recordings at Risk is focused on digitally reformatting “at-risk” audio and audiovisual materials of high scholarly value.
July 2018
July 1, 2018
AAM: Museum Assessment Program
Award Range: Services and materials valued at $4,000-$6,000.
Match Required: $750 (sliding scale participation fee).
The Museum Assessment Program (MAP) is a one year self-assessment program designed to help museums understand their strengths and weaknesses and strengthen their operations and meet the standards. MAP offers three different assessments including Organizational, Collections Stewardship and Community Engagement.
MHT: African American Heritage Preservation Program Grants (for Capital Projects)
Award Range: $10,000 to $100,000.
Match Required: 1:1 (may include in-kind).
The African American Heritage Preservation Program (AAHPP) was established by the General Assembly in 2010 to provide capital grants to assist in the preservation of buildings, sites, or communities of historical and cultural importance to the African American experience in Maryland. The AAHPP is administered as a partnership between the Maryland Historical Trust and the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture (MCAAHC).
Maryland Humanities: Mini Grants
Award Range: Up to $1,200.
Match Required: 1:1 (cash or in-kind).
The Mini Grants Program invites nonprofit organizations and schools to apply for funding in support of public humanities projects, documentary film, and civic education initiatives.
July 9, 2018
MHT: Non-Capital Historic Preservation Grants
Deadline: July 9 (Intent to Apply); September 10 (completed applications).
Award Range: Up to $75,000.
Match Required: None.
Non-Capital grants provide support for a wide variety of research, survey, planning, and educational activities involving architectural, archaeological, or cultural resources.
July 11, 2018
Award Range: Up to $350,000 (one to three years).
Match Required: At least 50%.
The Access to Historical Records – Major Initiatives grant program All types of historical records are eligible, including documents, photographs, born-digital records, and analog audio and moving images. Projects may: (1) Digitize historical records collections, or related collections, held by a single institution and make them freely available online; (2) Provide access to born-digital records; (3) Create new freely-available virtual collections drawn from historical records held by multiple institutions; and (4) Create new tools and methods for users to access records.
July 12, 2018
Award Range: $10,000-$100,000. Average grant award is less than $25,000.
Match Required: 1:1 (non-federal).
ART WORKS: Museums provide support for exhibitions, care of collections, conservation, commissions, public art works, community engagement, education activities, and other museum work. Museum projects funded by the National Endowment for the Arts demonstrate artistic excellence in and across a variety of mediums, movements, eras, and cultures.
July 19, 2018
NEH: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Award Range: Up to $350,000 for up to three years.
Match Required: None.
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources offers planning and implementation funding that supports efforts to extend the useful life of humanities collections and to make them more accessible to the public.
August 2018
August 1, 2018
Award Range: Up to $500,000 (for up to four years).
Match Required: 3:1 (non-federal sources).
The mission of this Challenge Grants program is to strengthen the institutional base of the humanities by enabling infrastructure development and capacity building. Grants aim to help institutions secure long-term support for their core activities and expand efforts to preserve and create access to outstanding humanities materials.
August 8, 2018
NEH: Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions (FPIRI)
Award Range: $4,200/month stipend and up to $7,000 in direct costs related to selecting fellows.
Match Required: None unless federal matching funds are awarded.
FPIRI supports fellowships at institutions devoted to advanced study and research in the humanities. Specifically sponsors fellowships that provide scholars with research time, a stimulating intellectual environment, and access to resources that might not otherwise be available to them.
Award Range: Planning grants ($40,000 to $75,000 for 12 months); Implementation grants (up to $460,000 for 12 to 36 months).
Match Required: None.
Public Humanities Projects grants support projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to illuminate significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art, or to address challenging issues in contemporary life. NEH encourages projects that involve members of the public in collaboration with humanities scholars or that invite contributions from the community in the development and delivery of humanities programming. Applications should follow the parameters set for one of the following three formats: (1) Community Conversations: supports one- to three-year-long series of community-wide public discussions in which diverse residents creatively address community challenges, guided by the perspectives of the humanities; (2) Exhibitions: supports permanent exhibitions that will be on view for at least three years, or travelling exhibitions that will be available to public audiences in at least two venues in the United States (including the originating location); and (3) Historic Places: supports the interpretation of historic sites, houses, neighborhoods, and regions, which might include living history presentations, guided tours, exhibitions, and public programs.
August 9, 2018
Award Range: $25,000, $50,000, $75,000 or $100,000 (up to two years).
Match Required: 1:1 (non-federal sources)
Our Town is the National Endowment for the Arts’ creative placemaking grants program. Through project-based funding in this area of Our Town, we support projects that build and disseminate knowledge about how to leverage arts, culture, and design as mechanisms for strengthening communities. Ultimately, these projects are intended to introduce creative placemaking knowledge and strategies to national or regional professional networks with work that impacts local communities across a variety of sectors (such as arts and culture, agriculture and food, economic development, education and youth, environment and energy, health, housing, public safety, transportation, and workforce development). Projects should lay the groundwork for systemic changes that sustain the integration of arts, culture, and design into strategies for strengthening communities. We are especially interested in projects where the dissemination of creative place-making strategies and tools ultimately empowers local residents.
September 2018
September 1, 2018
Maryland Humanities: Major Grants
Award Range: Up to $10,000.
Match Required: 1:1 (cash or in-kind).
The Major Grants Program supports innovative projects that use the humanities as the central resource to engage diverse groups and individuals through programming like exhibits, community dialogues, and documentary films, and include a wide variety of perspectives exploring critical issues.
September 13, 2018
Baltimore County Commission on Arts and Sciences: Operating Grants
Note: Deadline to submit is by 4 p.m.
Award Range: Up to 15% of an organization’s total operating budget.
Match Required: None.
Operating Grants provide general operating support for organizations that offer public arts, science and historic programs, performances, exhibitions and lectures that benefit Baltimore County citizens. Organizations located in Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Howard, and Harford Counties are eligible to apply for funding for arts activities that will take place in their jurisdictions, thereby serving Baltimore County residents. It is the Commission’s policy not to be the sole source of funding for any applicant.
Award Range: $50,000-$100,000 (up to three years).
Match Required: None.
Humanities Open Book Program supports projects that provide expansive public access to outstanding out-of-print humanities books using “ebook” technology.
September 14, 2018
Preservation Maryland: Heritage Fund
Award Range: $1,000-$10,000.
Match Required: 10% (cash or in-kind).
Heritage Fund supports projects that protect Maryland’s historic and cultural resources, and that promote innovative demonstration projects that can be successfully replicated to meet Maryland’s historic preservation needs. Successful projects include stabilization or acquisition of endangered historic properties; feasibility studies, architectural plans, structural assessments and historic structure reports; projects benefiting archaeological resources including curatorial services; “bricks and mortar” repairs and restorations; educational, research, and planning efforts related to resource preservation; and organizational development for local preservation organizations (e.g., membership development, marketing plans, etc.).
September 15, 2018
OCLC/ALISE: Library & Information Science Research Grant Program (LISRGP)
Award Range: $25,000 (up to one year).
Match Required: None.
The LISRGP promotes independent research that helps integrate new technologies that offer innovative approaches and contributes to a better understanding of the information environment and user expectations and behaviors. Research related (but not limited) to the following areas is encouraged: (1) OCLC Research themes; (2) impact of digital technology on libraries, museums, and archives; (3) social media, learning, and information-seeking behavior; and (4) new developments in knowledge organization (metadata, social tagging, linked data, etc.). Full-time academic faculty in schools of library and information science or related fields are eligible to apply.
September 18, 2018
NEH: Documenting Endangered Languages
Award Range: Senior Research Projects ($12,000-$150,000; for one to three years). Fellowships ($50,400 is the maximum stipend for a 12-month tenure period; $4,200 per month).
Match Required: None.
Made urgent by the imminent death of roughly half of the approximately 7,000 currently used languages, Documenting Endangered Languages aims to exploit advances in information technology to build computational infrastructure for endangered language research. The program supports projects that contribute to data management and archiving, and to the development of the next generation of researchers. Funding can support fieldwork and other activities relevant to the digital recording, documenting, and archiving of endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases.
NEH: Humanities Connections Planning Grants
Award Range: Up to $35,000 for up to 12 months.
Match Required: None.
The Humanities Connections grant program seeks to expand the role of the humanities in undergraduate education at two- and four-year institutions. Grants will support innovative curricular approaches that foster productive partnerships among humanities faculty and their counterparts in the social and natural sciences and in pre-service or professional programs (such as business, engineering, health sciences, law, computer science, and other technology driven
fields).
NEH: Humanities Connections Implementation Grants
Award Range: Up to $100,000 for 18-36 months.
Match Required: None.
Humanities Connections grants seek to expand the role of the humanities in the undergraduate curriculum at two- and four-year institutions, offering students in all academic fields new opportunities to develop the intellectual skills and habits of mind that the humanities cultivate. Grants support the development and implementation of an integrated set of courses and student engagement activities focusing on significant humanities content.
September 26, 2018
Award Range: $6,000 (for two months).
Match Required: None.
Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Eligible projects usually result in articles, monographs, books, digital materials and publications, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources.
September Deadlines TBA
Award Range: Planning Grants: up to $50,000 (up to one year). National Forum Grants: up to $100,000 (up to one year). Research Grants: up to $500,000 (up to three years). Project Grants: $50,000–$1,000,000 (up to three years).
Match Required: None for requests up to $250,000; 1:1 match (non-federal sources) for requests above $250,000.
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (LB21) supports professional development, graduate education, and continuing education to help libraries and archives develop a diverse workforce of librarians to better meet the changing learning and information needs of the American public. Projects must designate one of the following project categories: (1) Community Anchors; (2) National Digital Platform; or (3) Curating Collections.
IMLS: National Leadership Grants for Libraries
Award Range: Sparks Grants: up to $25,000 (up to one year). Planning Grants: up to $50,000 (up to one year). National Forum Grants: up to $100,000 (up to one year). Project and Research Grants: up to $2,000,000 (up to three years).
Match Required: None for requests up to $250,000; 1:1 match (non-federal sources) for requests above $250,000.
National Leadership Grants for Libraries (NLG) support projects that address significant challenges and opportunities facing the library and archive fields and that have the potential to advance theory and practice. Successful proposals will generate results such as new tools, research findings, models, services, practices, or alliances that will be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend the benefits of federal investment. Projects must designate one of the following project categories: (1) Community Anchors; (2) National Digital Platform; or (3) Curating Collections.
Maryland State Arts Council: Grants for Organizations
Award Range: $1,000 (minimum request).
Match Required: 3:1 (cash, non-state sources).
Provides general operating and arts programming support. General Operating Grants support nonprofit organizations whose purpose is producing or presenting the arts through public programs or services. Arts Program Grants provide operating support to nonprofit organizations whose primary purpose is other than producing or presenting the arts, but who provide ongoing public arts activities through public programs or services. Applicants are reviewed based on artistic merit, organizational effectiveness, and service to the community.
October 2018
October 1, 2018
NTHP: National Trust Preservation Funds
Award Range: $2,500-$5,000 for 1 year.
Match Required: 1:1 (cash only).
National Trust Preservation Funds are intended to encourage preservation at the local level by providing seed money for preservation projects. These grants help stimulate public discussion, enable local groups to gain the technical expertise needed for particular projects, introduce the public to preservation concepts and techniques, and encourage financial participation by the private sector. Preservation priorities include building sustainable communities; re-imagining historic sites; promoting diversity and place; and protecting historic places on public lands.
October 24, 2018
Award Range: Up to $100,000 (for up to 2 years).
Match Required: None.
The National Endowment for the Humanities offers the Dialogues on the Experience of War program as part of its current initiative, Standing Together: The Humanities and the Experience of War. The program supports the study and discussion of important humanities sources about war, in the belief that these sources can help U.S. military veterans and others think more deeply about the issues raised by war and military service. Although the program is primarily designed to reach military veterans, men and women in active service, military families, and interested members of the public may also participate.
October 25, 2018
Award Range: Maximum amount is $15,000. Typical range is $2,000-$10,000.
Match Required: 1:1 (cash only).
Small Cap Grants provide small and strategic grants to support acquisition, development, preservation and restoration projects within the Baltimore National Heritage Area. All projects must align with the 2013 Baltimore National Heritage Area Comprehensive Management Plan.
October Deadlines TBA
Award Range: n/a
Match Required: n/a
The National Medals are designed to recognize outstanding libraries and museums that contribute significantly to the wellbeing of their communities. For 2018, IMLS was particularly interested in museum and library programs that build community cohesion and serve as a catalyst for positive community change, including programs that provide services for veterans and military families, at-risk children and families, the un- and under-employed, and youth confronting barriers to STEM-related employment.
Selected institutions demonstrate extraordinary approaches to serving their constituents; they exceed expected levels of community outreach. These organizations have established themselves as community anchor institutions.
Award Range: $10,000-$100,000.
Match Required: 1:1 (non-federal sources).
Based on its 2017-2021 research agenda, the NEA is interested in research seeking to identify and to examine: Factors that enhance or inhibit Arts Participation or Arts/Cultural Assets; Detailed characteristics of Arts Participation or Arts Cultural/Assets, and their interrelationships; Individual-level outcomes of Arts Participation; and Societal or community-level outcomes.
NHPRC: Access to Historical Records – Archival Projects
Award Range: Up to $100,000 (up to two years).
Match Required: At least 25%.
The Access to Historical Records – Archival Projects grants program All types of historical records are eligible, including documents, photographs, born-digital records, and analog audio and moving images. Projects may preserve and process historical records to: (1) Create new online Finding Aids to collections, and (2) Digitize historical records collections and make them freely available online.
Award Range: $50,000 to $150,000 (up to 3 years).
Match Required: 50% of total direct project costs.
Public Engagement with Historical Records grants support create models and technologies that other institutions can freely adopt. Projects might create and develop programs to engage people in the study and use of historical records for institutional, educational or personal reasons. For example, an applicant can: (1) Enlist volunteer “citizen archivists” in projects to accelerate access to historical records, especially those online. This may include, but is not limited to, efforts to identify, tag, transcribe, annotate, or otherwise enhance digitized historical records; and (2) Develop educational programs for K-12 students or community members that encourage them to engage with historical records already in repositories or that are collected as part of the project.
November 2018
No grant program deadlines at this time.
December 2018
December 5, 2018
NEH: Collaborative Research Grants
Award Range: Up to $250,000 (up to three years).
Match Required: None.
Collaborative Research Grants support the following projects: research that significantly adds to knowledge and understanding of the humanities; conferences on topics of major importance in the humanities that will benefit scholarly research; and archaeological projects that include the interpretation and dissemination of results.
Award Range: $50,000-$100,000 (up to three years).
Match Required: None.
Scholarly Editions and Translations grants support the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts of value to the humanities that are currently inaccessible or available in inadequate editions. Typically, the texts and documents are significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials; but other types of work, such as musical notation, are also eligible.
December 12, 2018
Award Range: Planning grants (up to $40,000); Implementation grants (up to $350,000).
Match Required: None.
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting sustainable conservation measures that mitigate deterioration, prolong the useful life of collections, and support institutional resilience: the ability to anticipate and respond to natural and man-made disasters.
December Deadlines TBA
Award Range: $5,000-$500,000 (up to 3 years).
Match Required: None (for requests up to $25,000) ; 1:1 (for requests over $25,000).
Museums for America supports projects that strengthen the ability of an individual museum to serve its public. Project categories include: (1) Learning Experiences: projects that position museums as teaching and inquiry-focused institutions within today’s formal and informal learning ecosystem; (2) Community Anchors: projects that strengthen museums’ capacities for civic engagement; and (3) Collections Stewardship: projects that help the museum field address state-of-the-art collections care and collections-information management, curation, preventive conservation, conservation treatments, database creation and enhancement, digitization, and the use of digital tools to facilitate discovery and deepen engagement with museum collections.
IMLS: National Leadership Grants for Museums
Award Range: $5,000-$1,000,000 (up to 3 years).
Match Required: 1:1 (non-federal sources).
National Leadership Grants for Museums support projects that address critical needs of the museum field and that have the potential to advance practice in the profession so that museums can improve services for the American public. Project categories include: (1) Learning Experiences: projects that position museums as teaching and inquiry-focused institutions within today’s formal and informal learning ecosystem; (2) Community Anchors: projects that strengthen museums’ capacities for civic engagement; and (3) Collections Stewardship: projects that help the museum field address state-of-the-art collections care and collections-information management, curation, preventive conservation, conservation treatments, database creation and enhancement, digitization, and the use of digital tools to facilitate discovery and deepen engagement with museum collections (includes cross-collaboration with libraries).
NHPRC: Archives Leadership Institute
Award Range: Up to $250,000 (for three years).
Match Required: Limited to indirect costs.
First funded in 2008, the Archives Leadership Institute seeks to bring to tomorrow’s leaders the insights and understanding necessary for increasing public use and appreciation of archives.
January 2019
January 10, 2019
Award Range: Up to $325,000 (two-year period).
Match Required: None.
NEH is soliciting proposals from institutions to participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP is creating a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1836 and 1922, from all the states and U.S. territories.
January Deadlines TBA
ACLS: Digital Extension Grants
Award Range: Varies; capped at $150,000.
Match Required: none.
ACLS Digital Extension Grant Program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. It is hoped that these grants will help advance humanistic scholarship by enhancing established digital projects, extending their reach to new communities of users, and supporting teams of scholars at all career stages as they participate in digital research projects.
Award Range: Up to $50,000 for non-capital and programming projects and up to $100,000 for capital projects (two-year period).
Match Required: 1:1 (may include in-kind).
Capital and Non-Capital Project grants support heritage tourism-related projects involving historical, cultural, or natural resources, events, or properties. Non-capital projects can include planning and design as well as interpretive projects, such as exhibits, signage, and other materials. Capital projects include acquisition, development, new construction, rehabilitation, restoration, and pre-development costs (such as architectural designs). Grants can also fund programming, such as seminars, conferences, performances, reenactments, commemorations, and festivals (must be a pilot program or new programming).
NCPTT: Preservation Technology and Training
Award Range: $5,000-$40,000.
Match Required: None.
2017 Preservation Technology and Training (PTT) Grants are intended to create better tools, better materials, and better approaches to conserving buildings, landscapes, sites, and collections. PTT Grants will support the following activities: (1) Innovative research that develops new technologies or adapts existing technologies to preserve cultural resources (typically $25,000 to $40,000); (2) Specialized workshops or symposia that identify and address national preservation needs (typically $15,000 to $25,000); (3) How-to videos, mobile applications, podcasts, best practices publications, or webinars that disseminate practical preservation methods or provide better tools for preservation practice (typically $5,000 to $15,000). Grants are not for brick and mortar projects.
NTHP: African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Grants
Award Range: $50,000 – $150,000.
Match Required: None; however, projects that leverage additional investments are strongly preferred.
Grants from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund are designed to advance ongoing preservation activities for historic places such as sites, museums, and landscapes representing African American cultural heritage. The fund supports Capital Projects, Organizational Capacity Building, Project Planning, and Programming and Interpretation.
February 2019
February 1, 2019
NTHP: National Trust Preservation Funds
Award Range: $2,500-$5,000 for 1 year.
Match Required: 1:1 (cash only).
National Trust Preservation Funds are intended to encourage preservation at the local level by providing seed money for preservation projects. These grants help stimulate public discussion, enable local groups to gain the technical expertise needed for particular projects, introduce the public to preservation concepts and techniques, and encourage financial participation by the private sector. Preservation priorities include building sustainable communities; re-imagining historic sites; promoting diversity and place; and protecting historic places on public lands.
February 6, 2019
Award Range: $50,400 (maximum for a 12-month period; $4,200 per full-time month)
Match Required: None.
The Public Scholar Program supports well-researched books in the humanities intended to reach a broad readership. This program aims to encourage scholarship that will be of broad interest and have lasting impact. Such scholarship might present a narrative history, tell the stories of important individuals, analyze significant texts, provide a synthesis of ideas, revive interest in a neglected subject, or examine the latest thinking on a topic.The program is open to both individuals affiliated with scholarly institutions and independent scholars or researchers. Projects may be at any stage of development.
February 14, 2019
NEH: Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers
Award Range: Up to $170,000 for 15 months.
Match Required: None unless the grant is awarded as a federal match.
The Landmarks of American History and Culture program supports a series of one-week workshops for a national audience of K-12 educators that enhance and strengthen humanities teaching at the K-12 level.
NEH: Summer Seminars and Institutes
Award Range: Seminars ($50,000-$135,000; up to 12 months). Institutes ($60,000-$225,000; up to 15 months).
Match Required: None.
NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes support professional development programs in the humanities for school teachers and for college and university faculty. These initiatives may be as short as one week or as long as four weeks. NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes: (1) provide models of excellent teaching; (2) provide models of excellent scholarship; (3) broaden and deepen understanding of the humanities; (4) focus on the study and teaching of significant topics, texts, and other sources; (5) contribute to the intellectual vitality of participants; and (6) build communities of inquiry. An NEH Summer Seminar or Institute may be hosted by a college, university, learned society, center for advanced study, library or other repository, cultural or professional organization, or school or school system. These programs are designed for a national audience of participants.
February Deadlines TBA
Award Range: up to $3,900 cap per assessor.
Match Required: Institution is required to pay remaining assessment fees that exceed the award cap.
The CAP program provides small and mid-sized museums with partial funding toward a general conservation assessment. The assessment is a study of all of the institution’s collections, buildings, and building systems, as well as its policies and procedures relating to collections care. Participants who complete the program receive an assessment report with prioritized recommendations to improve collections care. CAP is often a first step for small institutions that wish to improve the condition of their collections.
MHT: Historic Preservation Capital Grants
Award Range: Up to $100,000.
Match Required: 1:1 (may include in-kind).
The Historic Preservation Capital Grant Program promotes the acquisition, restoration, and rehabilitation of historic properties in Maryland. Eligible properties are limited to those which are listed in or eligible for the Maryland Register, either individually or as a contributing structure within a district.
Award range: $25,000 – $500,000.
Match Required: 1:1.
SAT grants provide preservation and/or conservation assistance to nationally significant historic properties and collections. Grants will be administered by the National Park Service in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
March 2019
March 12, 2019
Award Range: $50,000-$250,000 (up to three years).
Match Required: None.
Institutes for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities grants support national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities.
March Deadlines TBA
Baltimore County Commission on Arts and Sciences: Project Grants
Award Range: Up to 15% of the cost of the proposed arts activities, not to exceed $7,500.
Match Required: None.
Arts and Sciences Project Grants funded by Baltimore County government will help community-based organizations produce and present arts, science, history and humanities programs and activities in local communities in Baltimore County. Project Grants provide funding support for specific projects, such as performances, exhibits, lectures, classes and workshops. Community-based, not-for-profit organizations in Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Howard and Harford Counties are eligible to apply for funding for arts activities that serve Baltimore County residents.
Award Range: Up to $10,000.
Match Required: None.
The Creative Baltimore Fund provides support to artists and organizations through two grants. The Mayor’s Individual Artist Award provides project support of $5,000 for programs that promote public access and encourage the breadth of arts and/or cultural programming in the community. General Operating Support provides core support for established arts or cultural organizations that benefit the public and are artistically or culturally vibrant. Organizations can receive up to $10,000 for general operating support.
CCAHA: Risk Assessment and Emergency Preparedness Program
Award Range: Services values at more than $5,000.
Match Required: $350 per institution.
Through funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), CCAHA is able to offer a limited number of subsidized risk assessments. Institutions selected to participate will receive a site visit from a CCAHA preservation expert. The assessor will spend one full day on-site at the institution. The institution will first receive a written Risk Assessment report. Then, CCAHA staff will work with staff at the institutions to develop a full Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan for the collections.
CCAHA: Preservation Needs Assessment Program
Award Range: Services values at more than $5,000.
Match Required: $350 per institution.
Through funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), CCAHA is able to offer a limited number of subsidized preservation needs assessments. Institutions selected to participate will receive a site visit from a CCAHA preservation expert consisting of a review of the site, an examination of the collections, and interviews with relevant staff. The CCAHA assessor will spend one full day on-site at the institution. The institution will also receive a written report providing observations, recommendations, and resources to serve as a guide in the development of a comprehensive preservation plan for the collections. The report can become a valuable tool for institutional strategic planning and fundraising.
IMLS: Museums Empowered – Professional Development and Capacity Building Opportunities for Museums
Award Range: $5,000-$250,000 (up to three years).
Match Required: None for requests up to $25,000; 1:1 match for requests above $25,000.
To support and empower museums of all sizes and disciplines in responding to the evolving needs of the museum profession and changes in their communities, this MFA special initiative has four areas of focus for professional development and capacity building: (1) Digital Technology: training and professional development learning opportunities for museum staff to fully explore, understand and optimize the use of digital technology in museums; (2) Diversity and Inclusion: staff professional development and museum capacity building projects that explore proactive and inclusive ways to invite, connect, engage and strengthen ties with diverse communities; (3) Evaluation: training and professional development opportunities in audience research and evaluation for museum staff to help a museum expand its evaluation capacity; and (4) Organizational Management: training and professional development opportunities for museum staff to learn best practices in organizational management, strategic thinking, embracing innovation and managing change in order to foster continued growth, relevancy and vitality.
Potential projects will address one of these four priority areas and help strengthen the capability of an individual museum to better serve its public.
NTHP: Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fund for Historic Interiors
Award Range: $2,500-$10,000 for 1 year.
Match Required: 1:1 (cash only).
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fund for Historic Interiors is intended to assist in the preservation, restoration, and interpretation of historic interiors. Eligible activities include: obtaining professional expertise in areas such as architecture, planning, paint analysis, archaeology, or graphic design; hiring a preservation architect to create an interior restoration plan; hiring a consultant to develop a conservation plan for an interior’s textiles; producing a historic furnishings plan; and sponsoring a workshop on the preservation of historic interiors.
NTHP: Johanna Favrot Fund for Historic Preservation
Award Range: $2,500-$10,000 for 1 year.
Match Required: 1:1 (cash only).
Johanna Favrot Fund for Historic Preservation is intended to save historic environments in order to foster an appreciation of our nation’s diverse cultural heritage and to preserve and revitalize the livability of the nation’s communities. Eligible activities include: obtaining the services of consultants with expertise in areas such as architecture, planning, economics, archaeology, fundraising, media relations, education or graphic design; obtaining professional advice to strengthen management capabilities; designing, producing and marketing print and video communications materials; sponsoring preservation conferences and workshops; and designing and implementing innovative preservation and education programs.
CLIR: Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives
Award Range: $50,000-$250,000 for single-institution projects; $50,000-$500,000 for collaborative projects.
Match Required: None.
Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives supports projects that aim to digitize and provide access to non-digital collections of rare or unique content in cultural heritage institutions.
April 2019
April 10, 2019
Award Range: Fellowships cover periods lasting from 6 to 12 months at a stipend of $5,000 per month. The maximum stipend is $60,000 for a 12-month period. Awarded to individuals, not institutions.
Match Required: None.
Fellowships program supports valuable, individual humanities research. Awards are granted to individual scholars who are expected to produce new scholarly resources.
NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication
Award Range: Fellowships cover periods lasting from 6 to 12 months at a stipend of $4,200 per month. The maximum stipend is $50,400 for a 12-month period. (Awards are given to individuals, not institutions.)
Match Required: None.
Through NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication, the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation jointly support individual scholars pursuing research projects that require digital expression and digital publication. To be eligible for this special opportunity, an applicant’s plans for digital publication must be essential to the project’s research goals. That is, the project must be conceived as digital because the nature of the research and the topics being addressed demand presentation beyond traditional print publication. Successful projects will likely incorporate visual, audio, and/or other multimedia materials or flexible reading pathways that could not be included in traditionally published books.
April Deadlines TBA
Award Range: $10,000-$100,000. Average grant award is less than $25,000.
Match Required: 1:1 (non-federal sources)
The Challenge America category offers support primarily to small and mid-sized organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations — those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability. Project types include: Guest Artist, Cultural Tourism, and Public Art.