Grants Alert

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.30165
• Date: 08 February 2018
• Published date: 08 February 2018

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New NEH grant program

supports infrastructure

The National Endowment for the Humanities

(NEH) recently announced a new grant program

designed to create and sustain humanities

infrastructure.

“For decades NEH has played a vital role in

helping build the humanities infrastructure of the

United States,” said NEH Senior Deputy Chairman

Jon Parrish Peede in a statement. “These new

grants expand that role by leveraging federal

dollars to spur increased private investment in our

nation’s libraries, museums, and cultural centers

to ensure the long-term health and growth of these

institutions. The result will be greater access to

historical, cultural, and educational resources for

all Americans.”

NEH said the new Infrastructure and Capacity-

Building Challenge Grants program seeks to

strengthen the institutional base of the humanities

in the United States through matching grants

to libraries, museums, archives, colleges and

universities, historic sites, scholarly associations

and other cultural institutions for efforts that build

institutional capacity or infrastructure for long-

term sustainability.

The grants require a match of nonfederal

funds, NEH said, and may be used toward capital

expenditures such as construction and renovation

projects, purchase of equipment and software,

sharing of humanities collections between

institutions, documentation of lost or imperiled

cultural heritage, sustaining digital scholarly

infrastructure, and preservation and conservation

of humanities collections.

NEH said that historically black colleges and

universities, tribal colleges and universities and

two-year colleges are especially encouraged to

apply.

The application deadline for the rst grants is

March 15, 2018.

To learn more, see the full Grant Alert at

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Grants alert

Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital

Humanities (NEH)

Scope: The National Endowment for the Humanities

seeks applications for the Institutes for Advanced

Topics in the Digital Humanities to increase the

number of humanities scholars and practitioners using

digital technology in their research and to broadly

disseminate knowledge about advanced technology

tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities.

Deadline: March 13, 2018.

Funds: Awards normally range from one to three years

and from $50,000 to a maximum of $250,000 in funds.

Eligibility: Nonprofit organizations and state, local and

Native American tribal governments.

Areas: NEH said possible topics and areas to be

addressed might include but are not limited to: applications

of the Text Encoding Initiative, electronic editing and

publishing; scholarly communication and publishing;

advanced geospatial applications; textual analysis and text

mining; immersive and virtual environments in multimedia

research, including those for mobile platforms; and 3-D

imaging and modeling technology.

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Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge

Grants (NEH)

Scope: The National Endowment for the Humanities

seeks applications for Infrastructure and Capacity

Building Challenge Grants to help institutions secure

long-term support for their core activities and expand

efforts to preserve and create access to outstanding

humanities materials.

Deadline: March 15, 2018.

Funds: $1 million total. A match is required.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; nonprofit

organizations; and state, local, special district and

Native American tribal governments.

Areas: NEH said eligible activities include the

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