The National Endowment for the Humanities offers planning grants for traveling museum exhibitions, library projects, and digital initiatives that engage audiences with humanities ideas. Projects should go beyond digital archiving to offer interactive ways of exploring humanities content. Applicants should have consulted scholars and advisers to shape the project. Funding can also support adding new digital elements to previous NEH projects or expanding formats to reach new audiences. Applicants are encouraged to use innovative technologies like virtual environments, podcasts, and online discussions. The closing date for applications is Aug 27, 2008.
Opportunity ID: 42175
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | 20080827-GE |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning Grants |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Grant |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Humanities |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | – |
| Assistance Listings: | 45.164 — Promotion of the Humanities_Public Programs |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Jun 30, 2008 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 27, 2008 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 27, 2008 |
| Archive Date: | Sep 26, 2008 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | $75,000 |
| Award Floor: | $0 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | State governments Private institutions of higher education Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education Public and State controlled institutions of higher education Special district governments City or township governments Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | – |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | National Endowment for the Humanities |
| Description: | Americas Historical and Cultural Organizations grants support traveling or long-term museum exhibitions, library-based projects, interpretation of historic places or areas, interpretive Web sites, or other project formats that creatively engage audiences in exploring humanities ideas and questions. Planning grants can be used to plan, refine, and develop the content and interpretive approach of a project. Applicants should have already conducted preliminary consultation with scholars to help shape the humanities content of the project and with other programming advisers appropriate to the projects format. Applications for panel exhibitions are accepted only from organizations other than museums, such as libraries or library systems. Panel exhibitions must travel beyond a single site and must also incorporate at least one other program format. Applications that make innovative use of emerging technologies are encouraged. Projects should do more than simply provide a digital archive of material. They should offer new ways of contextualizing and interpreting information that engages public audiences interactively in exploring humanities ideas and questions. Applications may, for example, include plans to create Web sites, PDA tours and resources, podcasts, virtual environments, wiki formats or others that utilize user-generated content, virtual imaging, GIS mapping, online scholar-led discussions, video on demand, streaming video, games, or other digital components. Digital components should rest on sound humanities scholarship and enhance the projects humanities content for the general public in ways that take unique advantage of the chosen technology. Support is also available to expand previously funded NEH projects through the addition of new, complementary formats, for example, developing a series of reading and discussion programs around an exhibition or film or using digital formats to add new interpretive dimensions to a project. The new formats should complement and expand the projects original humanities content in unique ways and should reach audiences that were not served by the original project. |
| Link to Additional Information: | http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/AHCO_PlanningGuidelines.html |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Division of Public Programs
National Endowment for the Humanities Room 426 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20506 202-606-8269 Email:publicpgms@neh.gov |
Version History
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Related Documents
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Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Division of Public Programs National Endowment for the Humanities Room 426 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20506 202-606-8269 Email: publicpgms@neh.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45.164 | PKG00007688 | Jun 30, 2008 | Aug 27, 2008 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
42175 SF424_Short-1.0.pdf
42175 SupplementaryCoverSheetforNEHGrantPrograms-1.0.pdf
42175 Attachments-1.0.pdf
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