- American Alliance of Museums (AAM)
- American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS)
- Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA)
- Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
- Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
- National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT)
- National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
- National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
- National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
- National Park Service (NPS)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP)
Deadline: There are two deadlines each year – July 1 and December 1.
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.
American Council for Learned Societies
Collaborative Research Fellowships
Deadline: This program will not be offered in 2018-19. Deadline is typically in September.
Award Range: Varies based on number of collaborators; capped at $201,000.
Match Required: none.
ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowships support small teams of two or more scholars collaborating intensively on a single, substantive project in the humanities and related social sciences. The goal of the project should be a tangible research product (such as joint print or web publications) for which at least two collaborators will take credit. The program is funded by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Deadline: Annually in January. Exact 2019 date TBA.
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.
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
Risk Assessment and Emergency Preparedness Program
Deadline: Annually in March. Exact 2019 date TBA.
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.
Preservation Needs Assessment Program
Deadline: Annually in March. Exact 2019 date TBA.
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.
Council on Library and Information Resources
Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives
Deadline: Annually in March/April. Exact 2019 date TBA.
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.
Deadline: June 29, 2018 for fourth (and last) call for proposals.
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.
Activating Community Opportunities Using Museums/Libraries as Assets
Deadline: May 14, 2018.
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.
Deadline: Applications accepted annually from November to February. Exact 2018/2019 dates 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.
Deadline: Annually in September (pre-proposal); Annually in February (full proposal, invitation only). Exact 2018 and 2019 dates 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.
Museums Empowered: Professional Development and Capacity Building Opportunities for Museums
Deadline: Annually in March. Exact 2019 date TBA.
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.
Deadline: Annually in December. Exact 2018 date 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.
National Leadership Grants for Libraries
Deadline: Annually in September (pre-proposal); Annually in January (full proposal, invitation only). Exact 2018 and 2019 dates TBA.
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.
National Leadership Grants for Museums
Deadline: Annually in December. Exact 2018 date TBA.
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).
Deadline: Annually in October. Exact 2018 date 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.
Preservation Technology and Training
Deadline: Annually in January. Exact 2019 date TBA.
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.
Next Deadline: July 12, 2018 (SF-424 form to Grants.gov); July 24, 2018 (full application).
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.
Deadline: Annually in April. Exact 2019 dates 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.
Next Deadline: August 9, 2018 (SF-424 form to Grants.gov); August 21, 2018 (full application).
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 placemaking strategies and tools ultimately empowers local residents.
Deadline: Annually in October. Exact 2018 dates TBA.
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.
Deadline: December 5, 2018.
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.
Deadline: May 31, 2018.
Award Range: Up to $12,000 (for 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.
Deadline: 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.
Deadline: 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.
Deadline: June 6, 2018.
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.
Deadline: September 18, 2018.
Award Range: Research Projects – up to $150,000 (for up to 3 years). Fellowships – up to $50,400 (for up to 12 months).
Match Required: None.
The Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) program is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Awards support fieldwork and other activities relevant to recording, documenting, and archiving endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases.
Deadline: 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.
Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions (FPIRI)
Deadline: August 8, 2018.
Award Range: $4,200/month stipend and up to $5,000 in direct costs related to selecting fellows.
Match Required: None unless the grant is awarded as a federal match.
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.
Deadline: July 19, 2018.
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.
Humanities Connections Planning Grants
Deadline: September 18, 2018.
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).
Humanities Connections Implementation Grants
Deadline: September 18, 2018.
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.
Deadline: September 13, 2017.
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.
Deadline: 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.
Deadline: 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.
Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers
Deadline: February 14, 2019.
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.
Deadline: 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.
NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication
Deadline: April 10, 2019.
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.
Deadline: Annually in May. Exact 2019 date TBA.
Award Range: $100,000 (per year, for up to two years).
Match Required: None.
Preservation and Access Education and Training grants are awarded to organizations that offer national or regional (multistate) education and training programs. Grants aim to help the staff of cultural institutions, large and small, obtain the knowledge and skills needed to serve as effective stewards of humanities collections. Grants also support educational programs that prepare the next generation of conservators and preservation professionals, as well as projects that introduce the staff of cultural institutions to new information and advances in preservation and access practices.
Deadline: 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.
Deadline: May 1, 2018.
Award Range: Up to $7,000 (for 18 months).
Match Required: None.
Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized institutions—such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, cultural organizations, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities—improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections. These may include special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine art objects, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, historical objects, and digital materials. Applicants must draw on the knowledge of consultants whose preservation skills and experience are related to the types of collections and the nature of the activities on which their projects focus.
Deadline: August 8, 2018.
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.
Deadline: 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.
Deadline: 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.
Deadline: December 5, 2018.
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.
Summer Seminars and Institutes
Deadline: February 14, 2019.
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.
Deadline: 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.
Access to Historical Records – Archival Projects
Deadline: Annually in October. Exact 2018 date TBA.
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.
Deadline: First Deadline: January 18, 2018 (Required Preliminary Proposal). Second Deadline: July 11, 2018 (Full Proposal)
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.
Deadline: Annually in December. Exact 2018 date TBA.
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.
Deadline: Annually in October. Exact 2018 date TBA.
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.
Next Deadline: 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.
Deadline: Annually in February. Exact 2019 date TBA.
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).
Each year, NSF provides more than $5.5 billion in funding to colleges, universities and academic consortia through more than 11,000 award programs. Links to relevant research/funding areas are listed below:
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Active Funding Opportunities
The Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering has four goals:
-To enable the U.S. to uphold a position of world leadership in computing, communications, and information science and engineering
-To promote understanding of the principles and uses of advanced computing, communications and information systems in service to society
-To support and provide advanced cyberinfrastructure to enable and accelerate discovery and innovation across all disciplines
-To contribute to universal, transparent and affordable participation in an information-based society.
Education and Human Resources Active Funding Opportunities
The mission of EHR is to achieve excellence in U.S. science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education at all levels and in all settings (both formal and informal) in order to support the development of a diverse and well-prepared workforce of scientists, technicians, engineers, mathematicians and educators and a well-informed citizenry that have access to the ideas and tools of science and engineering. The purpose of these activities is to enhance the quality of life of all citizens and the health, prosperity, welfare and security of the nation.
Integrative Activities Active Funding Opportunities
The Office of Integrative Activities (OIA) works across disciplinary boundaries to lead and coordinate strategic programs and opportunities that: advance research excellence and innovation; develop human and infrastructure capacity critical to the U.S. science and engineering enterprise; and promote engagement of scientists and engineers at all career stages.
Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Active Funding Opportunities
NSF’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic (SBE) Sciences supports basic research on people and society. The SBE sciences focus on human behavior and social organizations and how social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental forces affect the lives of people from birth to old age and how people in turn shape those forces.
National Trust for Historic Preservation
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Grants
Deadline: Annually in January. Exact 2019 date TBA.
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.
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fund for Historic Interiors
Deadline: Annually in March. Exact 2019 date TBA.
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.
Johanna Favrot Fund for Historic Preservation
Deadline: Annually in March. Exact 2019 date TBA.
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.
National Trust Preservation Funds
Deadline: Three annual deadlines – February 1, June 1, and October 1.
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.