Updated July 2015
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES TO SUPPORT DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECTS
This list is intended for your planning purposes. It is our hope that you will be able to use it to determine which
agencies might fund your digital project, find more information by visiting their websites, and use what you
learn to develop a personal external funding list that will help you stay on task as you prepare your applications.
To navigate, keep this document in layout view, scroll to the table of contents, then click on the page number of
the agency or program in which you’re interested. This will take you directly to that entry. If you then wish to
learn more, click on the agency’s website address (URL). If clicking doesn’t work, copy the URL, paste it into
the address line of your web browser, and type return. Some agencies had not updated their websites at the time
this document was compiled, so do check the agency websites and read application instructions carefully.
Although this document focuses largely on fellowships for individual work, it includes a few instances of
institutional grants and fellowships. You can submit individual fellowship and grant applications entirely on
your own or though the Humanities Grant Development Office (HGDO). Institutional proposals (those requiring
submission by a 501(c)3 non profit organization) must be submitted on your behalf by the University of Kansas
Center for Research, Inc. (KUCR).
Applicants must make a firm commitment of their time and focus in order to develop competitive grant and
fellowship proposals. Because most agencies have deadlines only once each year and take from three to eight
months to announce awards, this requires long-term planning. A simple individual fellowship or small grant
application can be prepared in four to six weeks. That is not the case for institutional grant proposals. Because of
the complexity of such applications, the frequent need to interface with agency program officers, and the
necessity for institutional approval and submission it is critical to begin working on them a minimum of four
months and preferably six months prior to the agency's deadline in order to compete successfully. If you have
collaborators, especially at other institutions, extend your grant proposal development timeline to accommodate
the interfaces and required agreements between institutions and among collaborators. Federal agencies typically
post guidelines only six to eight weeks before the deadline. In such cases, you can work from the previous year's
guidelines and aim for the last known deadline, then tweak materials as may be necessary after the agency posts
new instructions. HGDO staff will be glad to talk with you about your research funding strategies and help you
create your proposal development timeline, as well as work with you to develop and submit your external
applications, whether directly or through KUCR.
As you plan, please keep in mind that the internal deadline to submit all final materials to the HGDO is five
(5) working days prior to the agency’s deadline. If requesting a full review and comments, the deadline to
submit final drafts is ten (10) working days prior to the agency's deadline. To take full advantage our services,
you need to begin working with us on fellowships a minimum of four weeks prior to the agency's deadline. The
timeline for institutional grants is much longer, as noted above. KUCR also has an internal deadline of five (5)
working days for all final application materials. HGDO can serve as your interface with KUCR, if you begin
working with us early enough to allow us to provide this service.
This list is not exhaustive. If you know of other sources, please let us know. If you find nothing here that might
help you, go to http://pivot.cos.com and conduct a search specific to your needs. Access to this online database
is free to KU scholars (including students) courtesy of KUCR and offers the most comprehensive and
dependable compilation of funding opportunities currently available. You can access it from any KU computer
or, if KU is your service provider, from your computer at home.
Humanities Grant Development Office
Kathy Porsch, Research Development Officer: kporsch@ku.edu • 785/864-7834
Bobbi Rahder, Research Development Specialist: brahder@ku.edu • 785/864-7833
Graduate Assistant Research Development Specialists: hgdo@ku.edu • 785/864-7887
http://hallcenter.ku.edu/humanities-grant-development-office
Table of Contents
INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIPS IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES ......................................................................................... 1
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES (ACLS) ......................................................................................................... 1
Digital Innovation Fellowships ....................................................................................................................................... 1
COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES (CLIR) ........................................................................................... 1
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Academic Libraries ............................................................................................................. 1
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IN THE HUMANITIES ........................................................................................... 1
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ........................................................................................................................................................ 1
The John W. Kluge Center: Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies.................................................................................... 1
ANDREW W. MELLON........................................................................................................................................................... 2
Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography ............................................................................................................. 2
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN RESEARCH ................................................................................................................................. 2
Trinity Long Room Hub: Fellowships in the Arts and Humanities .................................................................................. 2
INSTITUTIONAL GRANTS IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES.............................................................................................. 2
ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION........................................................................................................................................... 2
Program on Digital Information Technology .................................................................................................................. 2
COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES ....................................................................................................... 3
Digitizing Hidden Collections and Archives: Enabling New Scholarship Through Increasing Access to Unique
Materials.......................................................................................................................................................................... 3
EMC HERITAGE TRUST PROJECT ......................................................................................................................................... 3
Information Heritage Initiative ........................................................................................................................................ 3
INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES ................................................................................................................. 3
National Leadership Grants for Libraries ....................................................................................................................... 3
National Leadership Grants for Museums ....................................................................................................................... 3
MACARTHUR FOUNDATION .................................................................................................................................................. 4
Digital Media & Learning Grant..................................................................................................................................... 4
ANDREW W. MELLON PROGRAM .......................................................................................................................................... 4
Scholarly Communications and Information Technology ............................................................................................... 4
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION....................................................................................................... 4
Digital Dissemination of Archival Collections ................................................................................................................ 4
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ................................................................................................................... 4
Digital Humanities Implementation Grants .................................................................................................................... 4
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants ............................................................................................................................... 5
Digital Projects for the Public ......................................................................................................................................... 5
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources .......................................................................................................... 6
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities ............................................................................................... 6
Media Projects: Development and Production Grants.................................................................................................... 7
Museums, Libraries and Cultural Organizations: Planning and Implementation Grants .............................................. 7
National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) .............................................................................................................. 8
Scholarly Editions and Translations Grants.................................................................................................................... 8
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION ........................................................................................................................................ 8
Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies ......................................................................................................... 8
Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDIC) .................................................................................................. 9
Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) ................................................................................................... 9
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Individual Fellowships in Digital Humanities
Note: You can submit individual fellowships proposals on your own or though the Hall Center
Humanities Grant Development Office (HGDO. HGDO requires submission of all final materials
at least five (5) working days before the application deadline. If you would like the HGDO staff to
review and comments on your proposal components prior to submission, please submit your final
draft documents at least ten (10) working days before the agency deadline.
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Digital Innovation Fellowships
This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and
humanities-related social sciences. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance
digital humanistic scholarship by broadening understanding of its nature and exemplifying the robust
infrastructure necessary for creating further such works. ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships are
intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project that takes a digital
form. ACLS will award up to six digital innovation Fellowships in the competition year, including
projects on which two scholars are collaborating. Collaborating scholars should apply separately and
indicate that their project is collaborative. Each fellowship carries a stipend of up to $60,000 towards an
academic year’s leave and provides for project costs of up to $25,000. ACLS Digital Innovation
Fellowships are intended as salary replacement and may be held concurrently with other fellowships and
grants and any sabbatical pay up to an amount equal to the candidates’ current academic year salary.
URL: http://www.acls.org/grants
Deadline: September 24 (last known; Fellowships are not being offered 2015-2016)
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Academic Libraries
CLIR Postdoctoral Fellows work on projects that forge and strengthen connections among library
collections, educational technologies, and current research. The program offers recent PhD graduates the
chance to help develop research tools, resources, and services while exploring new career opportunities.
Host institutions benefit from fellows’ field-specific expertise by gaining insights into their collections’
potential uses and users, scholarly information behaviors, and current teaching and learning practices
within particular disciplines.
URL: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc
Deadline: June 2015
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
Visiting fellowships for non-University of Virginia faculty offer no stipend. These fellowships can take a
variety of forms--a month-long residency in Charlottesville, a year long networked editing project, an
international conference to discuss metadata standards, etc. Fellowships are awarded on an ad hoc basis,
and, although no funding is provided, advice and guidance is offered to help fellowss secure funding.
URL: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/other_fellows.html
Deadline: Rolling
Library of Congress
The John W. Kluge Center: Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies
This fellowship is open to applicants wishing to examine the impact of the digital revolution on society,
culture and international relations using the Library’s collections and resources. The fellowship carries a
$4,200 per month stipend and is granted for residential research at the Library of Congress only. The
competition is open to scholars worldwide and will be awarded for projects with the promise to generate
deep, empirically-grounded understanding of the consequences of the digital revolution on how people
think, how society functions, and on international relations. Proposals may also explore and analyze
emerging trends and new phenomena that may generate consequential changes in the future. Applicants
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must state the importance of the research to fundamental thinking about the human condition. Fellows are
expected to be in residence at the Library of Congress for up to eleven (11) months. Constraints of space
and the desirability of accommodating the maximum number of Fellows may lead to an offer of fewer
months than requested.
URL: http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships/kluge-digital.html
Deadline: December 6
Andrew W. Mellon
Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography
The aim of this program is to reinvigorate bibliographical studies by providing focused training and
mentorship for doctoral candidates, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty in the humanities. This is a
three-year fellowship tenure, where fellows receive intensive hands-on training at the Rare Book School
(University of Virginia) and will work with mentors from the bibliographical community who will guide
their archivally based scholarship, and help connect them with professionals in allied fields.
URL: http://www.humanities.ufl.edu/funding/december-both-mellon-criitcal-bibliography.html
Deadline: December 1
Trinity College Dublin Research
Trinity Long Room Hub: Fellowships in the Arts and Humanities
Digital Humanities research not only creates and interrogates digital artefacts, but studies how new media
are transforming the disciplines in which they are used, from publication to teaching. Researchers at
Trinity have taken a lead internationally in refining these methodologies and building the infrastructures
to enable Digital Humanities research. Bringing together expertise from the various disciplines of the arts
and humanities as well as from computer science, linguistics, engineering and the library, particular
research strengths within TCD include digital textual scholarship and editing virtual/augmented/mixed
reality performance, data mining and visualization, time-series analysis and historical modeling,
personalization and localization, digital curation, 3D worlds, and music and new media.
URL: http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/Fellowships/
Deadline: The Trinity Long Room Hub is not currently inviting applications for Visiting Research
Fellows. Contact Dr. Caitriona Curtis, the Institute Manager (curtisc@tcd.ie).
Institutional Grants in Digital Humanities
Note: All institutional proposals must be submitted through the University of Kansas Center for
Research, Inc. (KUCR). HGDO requires submission of all final materials at least five (5) working
days before the application deadline. If you would like the HGDO staff to review and provide
comments on your proposal components prior to submission to KUCR, please submit your final
draft documents at least ten (10) working days before the agency deadline.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Program on Digital Information Technology
This program seeks to better our understanding of the relationship between technology, information, and
society, primarily through research on and the development of digital information technology for the
conduct of scholarly research and public engagement with knowledge. Grantmaking focuses on:
1) Data and Computational Research--grants related to how information technology enables new forms
of data-intensive research. Grants help researchers develop tools, establish norms, and build the
institutional and social infrastructure needed to take full advance of developments in data-driven,
computation-intensive research.
2) Scholarly Communication--grants related to how information technology may change the
dissemination and evaluation of scholarship. These grants aim to ease the transition to digitally
mediated forms of scholarship by supporting the development of new models of filtering and curating
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online scholarly materials and by engaging the emerging community of stakeholders and practitioners
tackling similar issues in widely divergent disciplinary contexts.
3) Universal Access to Knowledge--grants related to digitizing knowledge and increasing access to that
knowledge. These grants facilitate the openness and accessibility of all knowledge in the digital age
for the widest public benefit under reasonable financial terms and conditions.
URL: http://www.sloan.org/major-program-areas/digital-information-technology/
Deadline: Submit a letter of inquiry. The Foundation does not accept unsolicited grant proposals.
Council on Library and Information Resources
Digitizing Hidden Collections and Archives: Enabling New Scholarship Through Increasing Access to
Unique Materials
This program funds projects in which locally executed protocols contribute to a national good, using
methods that are cost efficient and subject to wider adoption. It supports the creation of digital
representations of unique content of high scholarly significance that will be discoverable and usable as
elements of a coherent national collection. Awards are from $50,000-$250,000, and $500,000 for
collaborative projects. Time period is for 12 months.
URL: http://www.clir.org/hiddencollections/about-the-program
Deadline: September 30
EMC Heritage Trust Project
Information Heritage Initiative
The EMC Heritage Trust Project recognizes and supports digital stewardship of the world's information
heritage in local communities. Using the same criteria for excellence that guide the EMC Information
Heritage Initiative, EMC seeks people and projects that practice and inspire stewardship locally. Three
cash grants are awarded in the amounts of $5,000, $10,000, and $15,000. Award recipients are selected on
the following criteria: potential size of the audience that would benefit from access to this information;
the at-risk status of the information and why it is urgent to digitize it, and how beneficial the EMC grant
would be to the project. Projects may include applications from local libraries, museums, or historical
society collections; significant private collections of music, letters, or art; archives and records of local
cultural or educational institutions; and businesses.
URL: http://www.emc.com/corporate/sustainability/strengthening-communities/heritage.htm
Deadline: March 31
Institute of Museum and Library Services
National Leadership Grants for Libraries
This grant supports projects that address challenges faced by the library and archives fields and that
have the potential to advance practice in those fields. Successful proposals will generate results such
as new tools, research findings, models, services, practices, or alliances that can be widely used,
adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend the benefits of federal investment. There are two project
categories/funding priorities: 1) National digital platform and 2) Learning spaces in libraries. Grant
funds can be requested for Project and Research grants of $10,000-$2,000,000 for up to three years;
Planning grants up to $50,000 for up to one year; and National Forum grants up to $100,000 for up to
one year.
URL: http://www.imls.gov/applicants/detail.aspx?grantid=14
Deadline: February 2
National Leadership Grants for Museums
This grant supports projects that address critical needs of the museum field and that have the potential
to advance practice in the profession so that museums can improve services for the American public.
There are three project categories: 1) Learning Experiences that empower people of all ages through
experiential learning and discovery; 2) Community Anchors that promote the role of museums as
essential partners in addressing the needs of their communities by leveraging their expertise,
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knowledge, physical space, technology, and other resources; and 3) Collections Stewardship that
support the exemplary management, care, and conservation of museum collections. These grants can
be requested for $50,000-$500,000 for grant periods of up to three years.
URL: http://www.imls.gov/applicants/detail.aspx?GrantId=22
Deadline: December 1
MacArthur Foundation
Digital Media & Learning Grant
Grants focus on establishing a new approach to learning research and design experimentation. Foundation
funded research includes ethnographic studies, surveys, interdisciplinary research networks--one on youth
and participatory politics and another on connected learning--and other projects that examine what young
people are doing online, their views on such activities, and the knowledge, skills, and competencies they
are gaining.
URL: https://www.macfound.org/info-grantseekers/grantmaking-guidelines/learning-grant-guidelines/
Deadline: The Foundation is not accepting unsolicited proposals at this time. Recipients are
identified through staff consultations with current grantees and others in the field.
Andrew W. Mellon Program
Scholarly Communications and Information Technology
This program assists research libraries, archives, museums, universities, presses, and arts organizations
that seek to use technologies that have the potential to expand and equalize access to cultural and
scholarly resources across sectors of society. Grants support the creation, dissemination, use, and
preservation of original sources, interpretive scholarship in the humanities, and other scholarly materials.
URL: https://mellon.org/programs/scholarly-communications/inquiries-and-guidelines/
Deadline: Send a letter of inquiry to sc@mellon.org. (Only institutional grants not individual)
National Archives and Records Administration
Digital Dissemination of Archival Collections
Funds are offered to support projects aimed at making historical records of national significance to the US
broadly available by disseminating digital surrogates on the Internet. Projects may focus on the papers of
major figures from American life or cover broad historical movements in politics, military, business,
social reform, the arts, and other aspects of the national experience. The historical value of the records
and their expected usefulness to broad audiences justify the costs of the project. Grants are awarded for
digitizing documentary source materials. Applicants may digitize a single collection or set of collections
for online dissemination. Such publications should provide basic access to collections. Collaborations
among repositories are encouraged. A grant normally is for 1 to 2 years and up to $150,000.
URL: http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/digital.html
Deadline: Draft (optional) August 3, 2015; Final Deadline October 8, 2015
National Endowment for the Humanities
Digital Humanities Implementation Grants
This program is designed to fund the implementation of innovative digital humanities projects that
have successfully completed a start-up phase and demonstrated their value to the field. Such projects
might enhance our understanding of central problems in the humanities, raise new questions in the
humanities, or develop new digital applications and approaches for use in the humanities. The
program can support innovative digital humanities projects that address multiple audiences, including
scholars, teachers, librarians, and the public. These projects may involve research that brings new
approaches or documents best practices; implementation of computationally-based methods or
techniques; implementation of new digital tools for use in humanities research; efforts to ensure the
completion and long-term sustainability of existing digital resources; scholarship that examines the
history, criticism and philosophy of digital culture and its impact on society; scholarship or studies
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that examine the philosophical or practical implications of emerging technologies; and
implementation of new digital modes of scholarly communication. Awards are for 1-3 years and
range from $100,000-$325,000.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesimplementation.html
Deadline: February 17
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
This program awards small grants to support the planning stages of digital projects in the humanities,
both new projects in early stages of development and efforts to reinvigorate existing or dormant
projects in innovative ways. Requests should be for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives
in any area of the humanities. Activities may involve creating or enhancing experimental,
computationally-based methods or techniques for humanities research, teaching, preservation, or
public programming; pursuing scholarly work that examines the history, criticism and philosophy of
digital culture and its impact on society, or explores the philosophical or practical implications and
impact of digital humanities in specific fields or disciplines; or revitalizing and/or recovering existing
digital projects that promise to contribute substantively to scholarship, teaching, or public knowledge
of the humanities. Experimentation, reuse, and extensibility are hallmarks of this grant category,
which incorporates the “high risk/high reward” paradigm often used by funding agencies in the
sciences. Therefore, proposals for projects that take some risks in the pursuit of innovation and
excellence are encouraged. Funding is available at two levels:
1) Level I awards are small grants of up to $40,000 designed to fund brainstorming sessions,
workshops, early alpha-level prototypes, and initial planning.
2) Level II awards are larger grants that can be used for more fully formed projects that are ready to
start the first stage of implementation or demonstrate proofs of concept.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html
Deadline: September 16
Digital Projects for the Public
This program supports projects that significantly contribute to the public’s engagement with the
humanities. Digital platforms such as websites, mobile applications and tours, interactive touch
screens and kiosks, games, and virtual environments can reach diverse audiences and bring the
humanities to life for the American people. Projects should aim to deepen public understanding of
significant humanities stories and ideas; incorporate sound humanities scholarship; involve
humanities scholars in all phases of development and production; include appropriate digital media
professionals; reach a broad public through a realistic plan; create appealing digital formats for the
general public; and demonstrate the capacity to sustain themselves.
1) Discovery Grants: (up to $30,000) may be used for content research and narrative development;
consultation with humanities scholars; platform research and selection; identification or
digitization of production assets; preliminary design; audience evaluation; user experience
mockups; and storyboarding.
2) Prototyping grants: (up to $100,000) support the creation of proof-of-concept prototype.
Proposals for prototyping grants must include a design document that describes the project’s
platform, user interface, design, and the ways in which the project’s central humanities ideas will
be conveyed. These grants should result in a digital prototype that explains the key digital
features and humanities content of the project. These grants may be used to refine humanities
content; consult with scholars and digital media experts; finalize platform; scripting; creating or
digitizing of audiovisual assets; using interface and backend development, testing and debugging; final design, audience evaluation; and other activities to advance the project to the
production stage.
3) Production grants: (up to $400,000) support the production and distribution of humanities
projects that have a primarily digital format. Applicants must submit a design document and a
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prototype that demonstrate a solid command of the humanities ideas and scholarship related to the
subject. The prototype must show how the narrative, audiovisual, and interactive elements
function to bolster an audience’s experience of the project’s humanities ideas. Production grants
may be used for ongoing consultations; additional research and writing; fine-tuning the hardware,
software and platform; final design, production, and distribution of digital media projects;
finalizing of script and audiovisual assets; rights and licensing fees; production of complementary
components; publication of complementary materials; publicity, and project evaluation.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/digital-projects-the-public
Deadline: June 8
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
This program supports projects that provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, education, and
public programming in the humanities. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical
organizations across the country maintain important collections and this funding strengthens efforts to
extend the life of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through
the use of digital technology. Awards are also made to create various reference resources that
facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that
synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation.
1) Implementation Grants: may be used to arrange and describe archival and manuscript collections;
catalog collections of printed works, photographs, recorded sound, moving images, art, and
material culture; providing conservation treatment for collections, leading to enhanced access;
digitizing collections; preserving and improving access to born-digital sources, including
updating existing digital resources; creating oral history interview collections about war and
military service; developing databases, virtual collections and other digital resources to codify
information on a subject to provide integrated access to selected humanities materials; creating
encyclopedias; preparing linguistics resources; producing resources for spatial analysis and
representations of humanities data; and developing digital tools to facilitate use of specific
humanities collections or resources. This award is for $350,000 for up to 3 years.
2) Foundation grants: These grants support collaborative planning, assessment, and pilot activities
that incorporate expertise from a mix of professional domains. Drawing upon the cooperation of
humanities scholars and technical specialists, projects might encompass efforts to prepare for
establishing intellectual control of collections, to solidify collaborative frameworks and strategic
plans for complex digital reference resources, or to produce preliminary versions of online
collections or resources. Projects may include analyzing and evaluating humanities content
strengths; identifying and prioritizing humanities materials for digitization; developing plans and
protocols for ensuring the preservation of previously digitized or born-digital humanities content;
or creating editorial plans, locating and assembling resources, or devising strategies for
technological and programmatic sustainability for reference resources such as encyclopedias,
databases, virtual archives, etymological dictionaries, or online atlases. Amount: $40,000.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/humanities-collections-and-reference-resources
Deadline: July 21
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
This program supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars and advanced
graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. The projects may be a
single opportunity or offered multiple times to different audiences. Institutes may be as short as a few
days and held at multiple locations or as long as six weeks at a single site. NEH strongly encourages
applicants to develop proposals for multidisciplinary teams of collaborators that will offer the
necessary range of intellectual, technical, and practical expertise. This program is designed to bring
together humanities scholars, advanced graduate students, librarians, archivists, museum staff,
computer scientists, information specialists, and others to learn new tools, approaches, and
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technologies and to foster relationships for future collaborations in the humanities. Institutes may be
hosted by colleges, universities, learned societies, centers for advanced study, libraries, other
repositories, and cultural or professional organizations. The host site(s) must be appropriate for the
project, providing facilities for scholarship and collegial interaction. Projects that will be held more
than once at different locations are permissible.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/IATDH.html
Deadline: March 15
Media Projects: Development and Production Grants
This program supports projects in the humanities that explore stories, ideas, and beliefs that deepen
our understanding of our lives and our world. Grants for Media Projects should encourage dialogue,
discussion, and civic engagement, and they should foster learning among people of all ages. To that
end, the Division of Public Programs urges applicants to consider more than one format for
presenting humanities ideas to the public. NEH offers two categories of grants for media projects:
Development Grants and Production Grants:
1) Development grants support film, television, and radio projects for general audiences that
encourage active engagement with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. All projects
must be grounded in humanities scholarship in disciplines such as history, art history, film
studies, literature, drama, religious studies, philosophy, and anthropology. Projects must
demonstrate an approach that is thoughtful, balance, and analytical, going beyond the mere
presentation of factual information to explore its larger significance and stimulate critical
thinking. These awards range from $40,000-$75,000, depending on the complexity of the project,
and are usually made for a period of 6-12 months.
2) Production grants support film, television, and radio projects for general audiences that encourage
active engagement with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. These projects should
have completed research on the subject, including archival work and preliminary interviews;
involve scholars in creating and interpreting the project’s content; completed the project’s
script(s) for film or television projects, or detailed treatments for radio projects; and designed the
plans for distribution, outreach, and partnerships. Chairman’s Special Awards (up to $1 million)
are offered for projects of exceptional significance, audience reach, and complexity. This kind of
project should examine important humanities ideas in new ways and promise to reach extremely
large audiences. These goals can often be accomplished through combining a variety of program
formats, forming creative collaborations among diverse institutions, and significantly expanding
the scope and reach of the project. These awards are offered only at the production stage--not at
the development stage.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/media-projects-development-grants
http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/media-projects-production-grants
Deadline: August 12
Museums, Libraries and Cultural Organizations: Planning and Implementation Grants
This program supports projects for general audiences that encourage active engagement with
humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. Many different formats are supported, including
permanent and traveling exhibitions, book, or film discussion programs, historic site or district
interpretations, living history presentations, and other face-to-face programs in public venues. NEH
encourages projects that explore humanities ideas through multiple formats.
1) Planning grants are used to refine the content, format, and interpretive approach of a humanities
project; develop the project’s preliminary design; test project components; and conduct audience
evaluation. Awards up to $75,000 are available for the planning of exceptionally ambitious
exhibitions and for more complex projects with the potential to reach extremely wide audiences
through collaboration with multiple partners; wide-ranging combination of diverse formats; or
programming at a large number of venues.
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2) Implementation grants (up to $400,000) are for projects in the final stages of preparation to “go
live” before the public. Grants support final scholarly research and consultation, design
development, production, and installation of a project for presentation to the public.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/americas-historical-and-cultural-organizations-planning-grants
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/AHCO_ImplementationGuidelines.html
Deadline: August 12
National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)
NDNP is creating a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between
1836 and 1922, from all the states and U.S. territories. This searchable database will be permanently
maintained at the Library of Congress (LC) and be freely accessible via the Internet. NEH intends to
support projects in all states and U.S. territories, provided that sufficient funds allocated for this
purpose are available. One organization within each U.S. state or territory will receive an award to
collaborate with relevant state partners in this effort. Previously funded projects will be eligible for
continued support, but the program will give priority to new projects. Applications that involve
collaboration between previously funded and new projects are welcome. Such collaborations might
involve, for example, arranging with current awardees to manage the creation and delivery of digital
files; offering regular and ongoing consultation on managing aspects of the project; or providing
formal training for project staff at an onsite institute or workshop. Successful applicants will select
newspapers—published in their state or territory in English between 1836 and 1922—and convert,
primarily from microfilm, over a period of two years, approximately 100,000 pages into digital files
according to the technical guidelines outlined by the Library of Congress. NEH expects to award
cooperative agreements of up to $325,000 each for a 2-year period.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html
Deadline: January 14
Scholarly Editions and Translations Grants
This program supports the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts and documents
of value to the humanities that are currently inaccessible or available in inadequate editions.
Typically, the texts and documents are significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials; but
other types of work, such as musical notation, are also eligible. Projects must be undertaken by a team
of at least one editor or translator and one other staff member. These grants support full-time or parttime activities for periods of 1-3 years. Applicants should demonstrate familiarity with the best
practices recommended by the Association for Documentary Editing or the Modern Language
Association Committee on Scholarly Editions. Awards range from $50,000 to $100,000 per year.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/scholarly-editions-and-translations-grants
Deadline: December 9
National Science Foundation
Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies
This program aims to integrate opportunities offered by emerging technologies with advances in what
is known about how people learn in order to advance innovation, understanding of how people learn
in technology, and promote broad use and transferability of new genres. Proposals that focus on
teachers or facilitators as learners are invited; the aim should be to help teachers and facilitators learn
to make learning experiences more effective. Proposals that focus on making teaching easier will not
be funded. Cyberlearning awards will be made in three categories: 1) Exploration Projects (EXP)
explore the proof-of-concept or feasibility of a novel technology or use of such technology to promote
learning. Projects might explore how existing technologies can promote learning or explore whether
or how a new or existing technology offers opportunities for engaging in learning. 2) Design and
Implementation Projects (DIP) will conduct research in the everyday environments in which people
spend their lives, e.g., schools, homes, museums, parks, and the workplace. Projects might advance
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understanding about how to more broadly or productively use technology that holds promise or how
to coherently integrate several technological innovations that hold promise. 3) Integration and
Deployment Projects (INDP) should also be carried out in the everyday environments in which
people spend their lives, and like other types of projects, they will answer questions about learning
and about design of technology. These projects will build on research that has already shown the
promise of some technology or set of technologies for promoting learning or advancing our
understanding of learning. These projects might advance understanding of how to more broadly or
productively use technology that holds promise or how to coherently integrate several technological
innovations that hold promise. The program also will support small Capacity-Building Projects, e.g.,
conferences, workshops, and partnership-building activities, and will continue to participate in NSF’s
Foundation-Wide programs: EAGER, RAPID, INPIRE, and CAREER.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504984
Deadlines: Capacity-Building: July 31, December 7, and March 25
Exploration Projects: third Friday in December
Development and Implementation: third Monday in January
Integration Projects: July 11
Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDIC)
The is program is to develop and deploy a set of reusable and expandable software components and
systems that benefit a broad set of science and engineering applications. The program supports
software development along two thrust areas: 1) End-to-end High Performance Computer Networking
and 2) Cyber Security. Supported activities include development, testing, experimental deployment,
and trial use of software in relevant settings enabling research and education activities in any area of
science and engineering supported by NSF. A strong emphasis is placed on moving from
infrastructure research to infrastructure capability.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5174
Deadline: January 30 Note: The program is not currently accepting proposals.
Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2)
Software is an integral enabler of computation, experiment, and theory and a primary modality for
realizing the Cyberinfrastructure Framework for the 21st Century Science and Engineering vision.
Scientific discovery and innovation are advancing along fundamentally new pathways opened by
development of increasingly sophisticated software. The goal of this program is transforming
innovations in research and education into sustained software resources that are an integral part of the
cyperinfrastructure. There are three classes of awards: 1) Scientific Software Elements that target
small groups that will create and deploy robust software elements for which there is a demonstrated
need that will advance one or more significant areas of science and engineering; 2) Scientific
Software Integration awards target larger, interdisciplinary teams organized around the development
and application of common software infrastructure aimed at solving common research problems faced
by NSF researchers in one or more areas of science and engineering, resulting in a sustainable
community software framework serving a diverse community or communities; 3) Scientific Software
Innovation Institutes awards will focus on the establishment of long-term hubs of excellence in
software infrastructure and technologies, which will serve a research community of substantial size
and disciplinary breadth.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504865
Deadline: February 4 Note: The program is not currently accepting proposals.
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