Digital Projects for the Public

Post Date

April 5th 2016

Application Due Date

June 8th 2016

Funding Opportunity Number

20160608-MD

CFDA Number(s)

45.164

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Humanities

Eligibility Categories

State Governments
County Governments
City or Township Governments
Special District Governments
Public and State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
Federally Recognized Native American Tribal Governments
Non-Profits With 501 (c) (3) Status With The IRS (Except Higher Education Institutions)
Non-Profits Without 501 (c) (3) Status With The IRS (Except Higher Education Institutions)
Private Institutions of Higher Education

Funding

• Award Range:

  $1 - $400000

Grant Description

Digital Projects for the Public grants support projects that significantly contribute to the publicмs 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. The program offers three levels of support for digital projects: grants for Discovery projects (early-stage planning work), Prototyping projects (proof-of-concept development work), and Production projects (end-stage production and distribution work). While projects can take many forms, shapes, and sizes, your request should be for an exclusively digital project or for a digital component of a larger project. All Digital Projects for the Public projects should ╢ 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 for development, marketing, and distribution; ╢ create appealing digital formats for the general public; and ╢ demonstrate the capacity to sustain themselves. All projects should demonstrate the potential to attract a broad, general, nonspecialist audience, either online or in person at venues such as museums, libraries or other cultural institutions. Applicants may also choose to identify particular communities and groups, including students, to whom a project may have particular appeal.

Contact Information

• Agency

  National Endowment for the Humanities

• Office:

  None

• Agency Contact:

  Division of Public Programs
  National Endowment for the Humanities
  400 Seventh Street, S.W.
  Washington, DC 20506
  202-606-8269
  publicpgms@neh.gov
  
  
  publicpgms@neh.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  publicpgms@neh.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  publicpgms@neh.gov

• More Information:

  http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/digital-projects-the-public