The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access is accepting applications for the Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program.
Donor Name: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/16/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
HCRR advances scholarship, education, and public engagement in the humanities by helping libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country steward important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. The program strengthens efforts to make the content of such materials accessible through digitization and description. Awards also support the creation of reference resources that facilitate the use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation.
The HCRR program encourages open access, collaboration, and sustainable strategies for managing digital collections and resources. To the extent that the condition of the materials, intellectual property rights, and privacy and cultural considerations allow, you should make the resources you develop publicly available. NEH encourages collaboration between smaller and larger repositories, as well as between humanities experts, information professionals, and community stakeholders to expand participation in cultural heritage and promote engagement with primary sources. You should prioritize methods that allow for sharing and the interoperability of information and resources to ensure their long-term availability.
Funding Information
NEH anticipates awarding approximately $7,500,000. Awards are available at two levels: Planning and Implementation.
- Planning
- Planning-level awards (up to $50,000 for up to two years) support assessment, planning, and pilot projects that incorporate cross-disciplinary expertise in the foundational stages of preserving and creating access to humanities collections or producing reference resources. Experts may include humanities scholars, curators, archivists, librarians, collections and preservation specialists, local historians, and community elders or knowledge bearers, depending on your project goals.
- Implementation
- Implementation level awards (up to $350,000 for up to three years) support projects that preserve and create access to humanities collections or produce reference resources.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to apply, your organization must be established in the United States or its jurisdictions as one of the following:
- a nonprofit organization recognized as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code
- an accredited institution of higher education (public or nonprofit)
- a state or local government or one of their agencies
- a federally recognized Native American Tribal government
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
