The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Challenge Programs is accepting applications for Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants: Capital Projects and Capacity Building Challenge Grants: Digital Infrastructure.
Donor Name: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/17/2022
Size of the Grant: $1,000,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The purpose of the program is to strengthen the institutional base of the humanities by enabling infrastructure development and capacity building. Awards of federal matching funds aim to help institutions secure long-term support for their core activities and expand efforts to preserve and create access to outstanding humanities materials. The program supports two distinct types of projects, each with its own Notice of Funding Opportunity:
- Capital Projects support the purchase, design, construction, restoration, or renovation of facilities for humanities activities. This includes costs related to planning as well as the purchase and installation of related moveable and permanently affixed equipment for exhibiting, maintaining, monitoring, and protecting collections (whether on exhibit or in storage), and for critical building systems, such as electrical, heating ventilation and air conditioning, security, life safety, lighting, utilities, telecommunications, and energy management.
- Digital Infrastructure supports the maintenance, modernization, and sustainability of existing digital scholarly projects and platforms.
Funding Information
You may request up to $150,000 for Level 1 awards. You may request between $150,001 and $500,000 for Level 2 awards. You may request between $500,001 and $1,000,000 for Level 3 awards.
Period of Performance
- Level 1: Up to two years.
- Levels 2 and 3: Two to five years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants must be established in the United States or its jurisdictions and be one of the following:
- Applicants must work wholly or in part in the humanities and must support research, education, preservation, or public programming in the humanities.
- An eligible applicant may apply on behalf of a consortium of collaborating organizations. If selected for funding, the applicant will be programmatically, legally, and fiscally responsible for the award.
- Eligible applicants acting solely as fiscal agents or fiscal sponsors may not apply on behalf of ineligible applicants.
- Individuals and other organizations, including foreign, federal, and for-profit entities, are ineligible
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
