America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations Implementation Grants

Post Date

November 18th 2008

Application Due Date

January 29th 2009

Funding Opportunity Number

20090128-GI

CFDA Number(s)

45.164

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Humanities

Eligibility Categories

State Governments
County Governments
Federally Recognized Native American Tribal Governments
Non-Profits With 501 (c) (3) Status With The IRS (Except Higher Education Institutions)

Funding

• Award Range:

  $0 - $1000000

Grant Description

America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations implementation 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. 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 project’s humanities content for the general public in ways that take unique advantage of the proposed format. 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 project’s original humanities content in unique ways and should reach audiences that were not served by the original project. The program also supports Chairman’s Special Award projects. These are more complex projects of national visibility that would be of compelling interest to the general public, show exceptional promise of dealing with important humanities ideas in new ways, and are likely to reach large audiences. These goals can be accomplished through combining a variety of program formats, forming creative collaborations among diverse institutions, and expanding the scope and reach of the project.

Contact Information

• Agency

  National Endowment for the Humanities

• Office:

  None

• Agency Contact:

  Division of Public Programs
  National Endowment for the Humanities
  Room 426
  1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
  Washington, D.C. 20506
  202-606-8269

• Agency Mailing Address:

  publicpgms@neh.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  publicpgms@neh.gov

• More Information:

  http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/AHCO_ImplementationGuidelines.html