National Endowment for the Humanities: Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Research Programs is accepting applications for the Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations program to support collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to scholarship but are currently inaccessible or only available in inadequate editions or translations.

Donor Name: National Endowment for the Humanities

State: All States

County: All Counties

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 11/30/2022

Size of the Grant: $450,000

Grant Duration: 3 years

Details:

The program supports continuous full-time or part-time activities during the period of performance of one to three years. At least two scholars must work collaboratively on the project. Typical project expenses include salary for editorial and research activities, travel to collections to verify source material, and consultant fees for translation, editorial work, and the implementation of a digital edition.

In addition to supporting editorial projects at an implementation stage, the program also encourages applications for up to two-year projects at a planning stage that are determining the scope of the corpus, collecting documents, establishing the editorial and translation policies, evaluating the target audiences and determining their needs, selecting collaborators, and planning for dissemination and digital sustainability

Funding Information

• Award Ceiling: $450,000
• Award Floor: $1
• You may request a period of performance of one to three years. If your proposed project is at the planning stage, you may request a period of performance of up to two years.

Eligibility Criteria

• 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 you are an eligible applicant, 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.
• To be eligible, you must not function solely as a fiscal agent for another entity and must make substantive contributions to the success of the project.
• Individuals and other organizations, including foreign and for-profit entities, are ineligible.

For more information, visit Grants.gov.