The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access is accepting applications for the Research and Development program.
Donor Name: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/21/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The Research and Development program supports projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. Projects may seek better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to cultural heritage and to organize, search, discover, and use such materials.
The program supports projects at all stages of development, from early planning and standalone studies to advanced implementation. The program benefits the cultural heritage community by supporting work on the entire range of humanities collection types, including moving image and sound recordings, archaeological artifacts, born-digital and time-based media, rare books and manuscripts, archival records, material culture, and art.
Projects may focus on, but are not limited to, the following:
- Furthering theory and practice in core heritage collections work such as appraisal, arrangement, description, cataloging, knowledge organization, and digital curation.
- Preserving audiovisual and digital heritage collections, especially those in formats most at risk of obsolescence.
- Applying artificial intelligence to collections-based activities by heritage institutions such as libraries, museums, and archives.
- Conserving the material past by supporting scientific work to improve the conservation treatment and preventive care of cultural heritage materials.
- Protecting imperiled cultural heritage affected by armed conflict, war, looting, natural disasters, economic development, or tourism.
- Stewarding collections by and with underrepresented communities, including minoritized and Indigenous communities and persons with disabilities.
- Responding to the impact of climate change on the sustainability and resilience of heritage collections, institutions, or communities
Funding categories
The Research and Development program offers two funding tiers to address projects at all stages of development and implementation.
Tier I: Planning, Basic Research, or Prototyping
Tier I provides awards up to $100,000 for a period of performance of up to two years. This tier supports activities such as:
- Planning and preliminary work for large-scale research and development projects.
- Discrete research projects such as case studies or laboratory experiments. While such projects may or may not involve planning or preliminary research for a larger project, they must address research issues or problems in the cultural heritage field.
- Prototype or modest updates to established or emerging standards, methodologies, tools and equipment, or workflows.
Tier II: Advanced Implementation
Tier II provides awards up to $350,000 for a period of performance of up to three years. This level supports activities such as:
- Development of new or existent standards, protocols, practices, methodologies, or workflows for preserving and creating access to humanities collections.
- Applied research addressing preservation and access issues concerning humanities collections.
- Topic or area study in heritage preservation and access. NEH encourages you to involve multi-institutional and community stakeholders working to achieve substantial national or international impact via any combination of convenings, data collection, and analysis.
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.
