The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities is accepting applications for the Digital Humanities Advancement Grants Program.
Donor Name: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/09/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The Digital Humanities Advancement Grant program supports work that is innovative, experimental, and contributes to the critical infrastructure that underpins scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. In addition to the program’s emphasis on experimentation and innovation, DHAG values extensibility, reuse, replicability, and accessibility. If your project is funded, you must analyze your workflow and publish your results in a white paper that NEH will share widely. This body of work contributes to the digital humanities’ research base.
Funding Levels
Awards are available at three funding levels to allow you to identify a level appropriate to the scope and maturity of your project.
Level I
- Up to $75,000 and up to 24 months
- Supports smaller-scale projects or experimental or exploratory stages of larger projects
- Activities might include developing research agendas, piloting new methods, convening planning sessions with stakeholders or conducting audience and user experience research, designing prototypes, and facilitating convenings to address field-wide questions
Level II
- $75,001 to $150,000 and up to 24 months
- For projects that can demonstrate completion of an initial planning phase but are not yet ready for Level III funding; should include plans for extending work beyond the applicant institution
- Activities might include developing beta prototypes of open-source tools or software; evaluating and refining methods and workflows; conducting workshops or tutorials to disseminate project results
Level III
- $150,001 to $350,000 and up to 36 months
- For scaling up and expanding mature projects
- Must document completion of a planning or prototyping stage, current user statistics, and dissemination plans beyond the applicant institution
- Activities might include code review and bug fixing; creating training materials and documentation to promote wide use of the grant products; preparing data, software, or websites for future preservation; conducting accessibility compliance review
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.
