Opportunity Information: Apply for 20190515 PR
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Research and Development grant opportunity supports projects that tackle high-impact, difficult problems in preserving and improving access to humanities collections and resources. The program is aimed at efforts that move the field forward by developing, testing, or refining methods and tools that help cultural heritage organizations safeguard materials and make them more discoverable and usable for scholars, educators, and the public. It is designed for work that goes beyond routine preservation or standard digitization by focusing on broader challenges that require new approaches, research-driven experimentation, or innovative technical development.
A central focus of the program is preservation of materials that are essential to the nation’s cultural heritage but are at risk due to fragility, degradation, or technological change. This includes physical items such as artifacts and manuscripts, as well as time-based and media formats like analog audio or video recordings that can deteriorate or become difficult to play as equipment becomes obsolete. It also includes born-digital and digitized materials that face ongoing threats from changing file formats, software dependencies, storage failures, and rapid shifts in technology. In addition to preservation, the opportunity supports projects that improve access by creating or advancing methods for organizing, searching, discovering, and using humanities collections, which can include improved metadata practices, discovery systems, computational techniques, or other approaches that make collections easier to find and interpret.
Because these problems are often complex, NEH emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration. Competitive projects typically bring together expertise from the humanities and from technical domains such as preservation science, information science, computer science, and natural sciences. The program expects applicants to build teams whose skills match the specific problem being addressed, rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all staffing model. At the same time, NEH requires a clearly defined humanities perspective to shape the project’s goals and ensure the work remains grounded in humanities needs and use cases. This humanities perspective can be provided through several roles, such as a project co-director, consultants, or an advisory committee, but it must be concrete and actively integrated into decision-making and evaluation.
Projects must clearly explain how the proposed advances in preservation and access will benefit the cultural heritage community and support humanities research, teaching, or public programming. In practical terms, applicants should be able to show who will use the outcomes, how the results can be adopted or adapted by libraries, archives, museums, or related organizations, and what kinds of humanities questions, learning experiences, or public engagement activities the improved preservation or access will enable.
This is a discretionary grant program (Funding Opportunity Number 20190515 PR) under the humanities activity category (CFDA 45.149). Eligible applicants include state, county, and local governments; special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; and nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status other than higher education institutions. The maximum award amount listed is $350,000. The opportunity was created on March 27, 2019, with an original closing date of May 15, 2019.Apply for 20190515 PR
- The National Endowment for the Humanities in the humanities sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Research and Development" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.149.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2019-03-27.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2019-05-15. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $350,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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