$3.5M available for Media Projects program

• Published date: 16 July 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31180
• Date: 16 July 2020

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$3.5M available for Media

Projects program

The National Endowment for the Humanities’

(NEH’s) Division of Public Programs has announced

$3.5 million in FY2021 funding for the Media

Projects program. Funding may be used to support

collaboration between media producers and scholars

to develop humanities content, and to prepare docu-

mentary lm, television, radio and podcast projects

that engage public audiences with humanities ideas

in creative and appealing ways, NEH said.

According to the announcement, Media Projects

categories include:

• Development awards, which may support

activities such as meetings with scholars, research

and preliminary interviews (including scholarly

research and development of humanities themes),

preparation of program treatments and/or scripts,

production of a work-in-progress or trailer, and

creation of partnerships for outreach activities and

public engagement; and

• Production awards, which may support meet-

ings with scholars; script renement; production

and distribution of lms, television programs, radio

programs and podcasts; resources related to the pro-

posed media project that help students and teachers

explore the humanities content and themes central

to the project; and outreach activities and public

engagement related to the proposed media project.

NEH said that within the Production category,

Chairman’s Special Awards of up to $1 million are

also available for projects of exceptional signi-

cance, audience reach and complexity. These pro-

jects should examine important humanities ideas

in new ways and demonstrate the potential to reach

especially large audiences, NEH said.

Eligible applicants include colleges and univer-

sities; nonprot organizations; and state, local and

Native American tribal governments.

The deadline to apply is Jan. 6, 2021.

To learn more, visit www.grants.gov and search

FON# 20200812-TD-TR. To see more NEH grants,

see page 2. ■

Grants alerts

Technical Assistance Center on Transition

for Students and Youth with Disabilities (ED)

Scope: The Education Department’s Office of

Special Education and Rehabilitative Services

seeks applications for the Technical Assistance and

Dissemination To Improve Services and Results for

Children With Disabilities and Demonstration and

Training Programs—National Technical Assistance

Center on Transition for Students and Youth with

Disabilities announcement to expand and improve

the provision of vocational rehabilitation (VR) and

other services authorized under the Rehabilitation

Act of 1973, or to further the purposes and policies

in sections of the Rehabilitation Act by supporting

activities that increase the provision, extent,

availability, scope and quality of rehabilitation services

under the Rehabilitation Act, including related research

and evaluation activities.

Deadline: Aug. 28, 2020.

Funds: $4.1 million for one award.

Eligibility: State Educational Agencies (SEAs);

Local Educational Agencies (LEAs), including public

charter schools that operate as LEAs under state

law; colleges and universities; for-prot organizations;

other public agencies; private nonprot organizations;

freely associated states and outlying areas; and Native

American tribes or tribal organizations.

Areas: ED said the National Technical Assistance

Center will assist SEAs, LEAs, state VR agencies,

and other VR and special education and related

service providers to implement effective practices and

strategies that ensure that students and youth with

disabilities, including those with signicant disabilities,

graduate from high school with the knowledge, skills

and supports needed for postsecondary education,

training and employment. In addition to in-person

services, the center must offer appropriate remote

environment methodologies for these services in light

of the COVID-19 pandemic.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# ED-GRANTS-062920-001

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