Matching grants to stimulate public-private
investment in cultural institutions
WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 16, 2018) —
The National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) today announced a new grant program designed to create and
sustain humanities infrastructure. Cultural institutions are eligible to
receive up to $750,000 grants.
NEH’s 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.
These challenge grants, which
require a match of nonfederal funds, 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.
“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. “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.”
The new grant program includes a
special encouragement to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal
Colleges and Universities, and two-year colleges.
The application deadline for the
first NEH Infrastructure and
Capacity-Building Challenge Grants is March 15, 2018. Interested applicants
should direct questions about grant proposals to challenge@neh.gov or 202-606-8309.
National Endowment for the Humanities: Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the nation. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grant programs is available at: www.neh.gov.
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