The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Public Programs is accepting applications for the Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations program.
Donor Name: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/28/2023
Size of the Grant: $25,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations (PIP) helps cultural organizations enhance their interpretive skillset and develop public humanities programming. The goal of PIP is to help you identify the interpretive potential of your humanities collections, support your staff’s interpretive ability, or launch public programs that connect with new and existing audiences. Successful projects should demonstrate how the humanities matter to audiences and communities.
NEH encourages proposals from first time applicants and those who have not received prior NEH funding. For the purposes of this program, NEH has established the following criteria to designate an organization as small- to mid-sized. The agency especially welcomes proposals from organizations that meet at least two of the following criteria:
- Your annual operating budget is under $1,000,000
- You are in a community with a population of fewer than 300,000 people
- Your employed staff totals 50 people or fewer
- You rely on volunteers and/or part-time staff to perform the majority of daily operations
- Your core mission is to interpret under-told stories and/or your core audience is drawn from underserved populations (e.g., communities of color, LGBTQ+ communities, residents of rural areas, disability communities, U.S. religious minorities, and persons experiencing persistent poverty)
Allowable activities include:
- consultation with scholars and interpretive consultants to develop new narrative frameworks for your collections or site
- professional development to enhance staff and volunteer skills to present and plan public programing, including attendance at professional conferences or the creation and implementation of interpreter training specifically for your organization
- front-end and formative evaluation
- long-term strategic exhibition or interpretive planning
- visits to other organizations to observe interpretive best practices planning and/or delivery of interpretive public programs
- co-curation projects that engage community members in doing the work of the humanities (e.g., primary research, oral histories, and composing interpretive content), resulting in a publicly available interpretive project, such as an exhibition or website
- development or implementation of programming to amplify the presentation of a traveling exhibition hosted at your institution (exhibition fees and shipping are not allowable costs in this program)
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,250,000
- Award Ceiling: $25,000
Period of Performance
You may request a period of performance up to two years with a start date between March 1, 2024, and May 1, 2024.
Eligible Applicants
To be eligible to apply, you must be established in the United States or its jurisdictions as one of the following organization types:
- 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 If your organization is eligible, you may apply on behalf of a consortium of collaborating organizations. If NEH selects your proposal for funding, you will be programmatically, legally, and fiscally responsible for the award.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
