Grants & Revenue - Grants Opportunities
September
| Due Date | Program | Amount |
|---|---|---|
September 5 |
America's Historical and Cultural Organizations Planning Grants - This grants program from the National Endowment for the Humanities replaces the Museums, Libraries, or Special Projects: Planning Grants. NEH encourages projects that make creative use of new and emerging technologies to enhance the content of programs or to engage audiences in new ways. | $40,000 max |
September 15 |
Documenting Endangered Languages - This multi-year funding partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF) National Endowment for the Humanities supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Funding will support fieldwork and other activities relevant to recording, documenting, and archiving endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. | $12,000 to $150,000 |
September 17 |
Faculty Humanities Workshops - Funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities for Faculty Humanities Workshops that support local and regional professional development programs for faculty by providing such faculty with the opportunity to engage in vigorous intellectual inquiry with visiting scholars on significant topics in the humanities. Proposals to provide workshops for college faculty with limited access to professional development in the humanities are encouraged. | $30,000 max |
October
| Due Date | Program | Amount |
|---|---|---|
October 1 |
Archives- Detailed Processing Projects grants are administered by the The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) which promotes the preservation and use of America's documentary heritage essential to understanding our democracy, history, and culture. This grant category supports detailed processing and preservation of collections of national significance. |
$40,000 - $200,000 |
October 1 |
Archives - Basic Projects grants are administered by the The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) which promotes the preservation and use of America's documentary heritage essential to understanding our democracy, history, and culture. The Commission is particularly concerned that some historical collections in archives and repositories are difficult for most researchers to find because they are not processed or represented in national catalogs. It hopes to encourage repositories to reveal these "hidden collections" by concentrating on materials in their "backlogs." |
$200,000 max |
October 1 |
Publishing Historical Records grants from the The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) support projects to publish historical records of national significance. Grants are awarded for collecting, describing, preserving, compiling, editing, and publishing documentary source materials. | $80,000 to $130,000 |
October 1 |
Research in Historical Records Issues grants are administered by the The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) which promotes the preservation and use of America's documentary heritage essential to understanding our democracy, history, and culture. The goal of this project is to measure the ways and means of public access to archives and historical records. |
$150,000 max |
October 1 |
Strategies and Tools for Archives and Publishing Historical Records grants are administered by the The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) which promotes the preservation and use of America's documentary heritage essential to understanding our democracy, history, and culture. The goal is to develop new strategies and tools that can improve the preservation, public discovery, or use of historical records. | $50,000 to $150,000 |
October 1 |
Grants for Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development - Funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support projects that improve specific areas of humanities education and serve as national models of excellence. As part of a project, applicants may design, produce, and test interactive educational software and other electronic technologies. |
$100 K (Curr) $200 K (Mats) |
October 1 |
The Grammy Foundation awards grants to organizations and individuals to support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded sound heritage of the Americas. The Archiving and Preservation area has two funding categories, preservation implementation and planning, assessment, and/or consultation. | $10,000 to $40,000 and $5,000 to $10,000 |
October 2 |
Preservation and Access Grants for Stabilizing Humanities Collections - Funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities to help museums, libraries, archives, and historical organizations preserve their humanities collections through support for improved housing and storage, environmental conditions, security, lighting, and fire protection. | $30,000 to $600,000 |
October 2 |
Summer Stipends - Funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support individuals pursuing advanced research that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the public's understanding of the humanities. Applicants may be faculty or staff members of colleges, universities, or primary or secondary schools, or they may be independent scholars or writers. | $6,000 |
October 15 |
The NEA Foundation Learning and Leadership Grants - Funds from the National Education Association for professional development activities that improve practice, curriculum, and student achievement. Grants to individuals fund participation in high-quality professional development experiences, such as summer institutes or action research. Grants to groups fund collegial study, including study groups, action research, lesson study, or mentoring experiences for faculty or staff new to an assignment. | $2000 indiv $5000 groups |
October 16 |
Digital Humanities Start-up Grants - Funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives in all areas of the humanities including research into the study of the humanities through digital means and exploration of digital means preserving, archiving, and accessing humanities resources. | $30,000 max |
November
| Due Date | Program | Amount |
|---|---|---|
November 1 |
Challenge Grants - Funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities to secure long-term improvements in and support for their humanities programs and resources, including faculty and staff positions, fellowships, lecture or exhibition series, visiting scholars or consultants, publishing subventions, maintenance of facilities, faculty and staff development, acquisitions, and reservation/ conservation programs. | $30,000 to $1 Mil |
November 1 |
Collaborative Research Grant - Funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support: original research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars; or research coordinated by an individual scholar that, because of its scope or complexity, requires additional staff and resources beyond the individual's salary. | $25,000 to $100,000 |
November 1 |
National Digital Newspaper Program - Request for Proposals - The National Endowment for the Humanities is soliciting proposals from institutions to participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). The cooperative agreement will take the form of partnership between the award recipients and NEH with technical support provided by the Library of Congress. | $400,000 max |
November 1 |
Scholarly Editions Grants - Funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the preparation by a team of at least two editors and staff of texts and documents that are currently inaccessible or available in inadequate editions. In keeping with the goals of the NEH Digital Humanities Initiative, the Scholarly Editions Program requires that applicants for online projects employ digital technology in the preparation and management of their critical and documentary editions. | $50,000 to $100,000 |
November 5 |
The Carnegie-Whitney Awards are administered through the American Library Association and provide funds for the preparation and publication of popular or scholarly reading lists, indexes and other guides to library resources that will be useful to users of all types of libraries. |
$5,000 max |
November 26 |
Arizona Humanities Council funds are competitive awards available for community-initiated projects that have as their primary purpose to help Arizonans understand and appreciate the humanities. The interpretation of the humanities must be central to all AHC-funded programs. | $6,000 max |
December
| Due Date | Program | Amount |
|---|---|---|
December 1 |
The Alibris Collection Award is an annual grant of up to $3000 worth of books to an academic, public, special, or K-12 library supporting specific collection development projects that advance the mission, priority areas, and goals of the selected library. The purpose of the Award is to help provide materials for libraries with replacement projects, retrospective collection development projects, or routine collection building needs. |
$3,000 |
December 8 |
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections - This grant is awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting preventive conservation measures that mitigate deterioration and prolong the useful life of collections. As they strive to be effective stewards of humanities collections, cultural repositories are increasingly interested in sustainable preservation strategies. NEH therefore invites proposals that explore and implement energy-efficient and cost-effective preventive conservation measures designed to mitigate the greatest risks to collections. |
up to $40,000 |
December 15 |
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program - This grant program from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supports projects that develop faculty and library leaders, to recruit and educate the next generation of librarians, and to conduct research on the library profession and support early career research on any area of library and information science by tenure-track, untenured faculty in graduate schools of library and information science. It also supports projects to attract high school and college students to consider careers in libraries, to build institutional capacity in graduate schools of library and information science, and to assist in the professional development of librarians and library staff. | $50,000 to $1 mil |
January
| Due Date | Program | Amount |
|---|---|---|
February
| Due Date | Program | Amount |
|---|---|---|
February 1 |
National Leadership Grants - Funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to support projects that have the potential to elevate museum and library practice. The Institute seeks to advance the ability of museums and libraries to preserve culture, heritage and knowledge while enhancing learning. | $50,000 to $1 mil |
February 15 |
The NEA Foundation Learning and Leadership Grants - Funds from the National Education Association for professional development activities that improve practice, curriculum, and student achievement. Grants to individuals fund participation in high-quality professional development experiences, such as summer institutes or action research. Grants to groups fund collegial study, including study groups, action research, lesson study, or mentoring experiences for faculty or staff new to an assignment. | $2000 indiv $5000 groups |
February |
We the People Challenge Grants in United States History, Institutions and Culture - Funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities to help institutions and organizations secure long-term improvements in and support for humanities activities that explore significant themes and events in American history. The Endowment particularly welcomes proposals for programming at America's historic places as well as applications that address this theme through the use of digital technologies. | $1 mil (max) |
March
| Due Date | Program | Amount |
|---|---|---|
March |
Summer Seminars and Institutes - Funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support national faculty development programs in the humanities for school teachers, and for college and university teachers. Seminars and institutes may be hosted by colleges, universities, school systems, learned societies, centers for advanced study, libraries or other repositories, and cultural or professional organizations. | $45,000 to $200,000 |
March |
The Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) administered by the Arizona State Library provides funds to help libraries develop central roles as community builders. LSTA funds are used to promote improvements in services to all types of libraries; to facilitate access to, and sharing of, resources; and to achieve economical and effective delivery of service for the purpose of cultivating an educated and informed citizenry. LSTA has five areas of funding Community Focal Point |
$200,000 max |
March |
Advancing Knowledge - The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) partnership invites proposals for innovative, collaborative humanities projects using the latest digital technologies for the benefit of the American public, humanities scholarship, and the nation's cultural institutions. We encourage projects that explore new ways to share, examine, and interpret humanities collections in a digital environment and to develop new uses and audiences for existing digital resources. | $50,000 to $350,000 |
April
| Due Date | Program | Amount |
|---|---|---|
April 26 |
Save America's Treasures - Funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant intellectual and cultural artifacts and historic structures and sites. Intellectual and cultural artifacts include artifacts, collections, documents, sculpture, and works of art. | $700,000 max |
April |
Arizona Humanities Council funds are competitive awards available for community-initiated projects that have as their primary purpose to help Arizonans understand and appreciate the humanities. The interpretation of the humanities must be central to all AHC-funded programs. | $6,000 max |
May
| Due Date | Program | Amount |
|---|---|---|
May |
Preservation and Access Research and Development Grants - Funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support research and development projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing intellectual access to humanities resources. Applicants should define a specific problem, devise procedures and potential solutions, and evaluate findings. | $50,000 to $350,000 |
June
| Due Date | Program | Amount |
|---|---|---|
October 15 |
The NEA Foundation Learning and Leadership Grants - Funds from the National Education Association for professional development activities that improve practice, curriculum, and student achievement. Grants to individuals fund participation in high-quality professional development experiences, such as summer institutes or action research. Grants to groups fund collegial study, including study groups, action research, lesson study, or mentoring experiences for faculty or staff new to an assignment. | $2000 indiv $5000 groups |
July
| Due Date | Program | Amount |
|---|---|---|
July |
Preservation and Access Education and Training Grants - Funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support national or regional (multi-state) education and training programs on the care and management of, and the creation of intellectual access to, library, archival, and material culture collections. | $50,000 to $525,000 |
July |
Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Resources - Funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support projects that preserve and create intellectual access to such collections as books, journals, newspapers, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, art, and objects of material culture. | $50,000 to $350,000 |
July |
Arizona Humanities Council funds are competitive awards available for community-initiated projects that have as their primary purpose to help Arizonans understand and appreciate the humanities. The interpretation of the humanities must be central to all AHC-funded programs. | $6,000 max |
August
| Due Date | Program | Amount |
|---|---|---|
August 26 |
America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants - Funds from the National Endowment for the Humanitiessupport projects in the humanities that explore stories, ideas, and beliefs that deepen our understanding of our lives and our world. The Division of Public Programs supports the development of humanities content and interactivity that excite, inform, and stir thoughtful reflection upon culture, identity, and history in creative and new ways. Grants for America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations should encourage dialogue, discussion, and civic engagement, and they should foster learning among people of all ages. To that end, the Division of Public Programs urges applicants to consider more than one format for presenting humanities ideas to the public. NEH offers two categories of grants for America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning and Implementation Grants. | $1,000,000 max |
On-Going Grants (no deadlines)
| Program | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation awards grants in several areas including its Research Library Program which aims to improve the ability of research libraries to serve the needs of scholarship in the humanities and the performing arts, and to help make their resources more widely accessible to scholars and the general public. | $10,000 to $40,000 |
| The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation program in Research in Information Technology (RIT) is dedicated to supporting the thoughtful application of information technology to a wide range of scholarly purposes. The Foundation also supports investigations of new technical approaches to the archiving of textual and multimedia materials that require improved search and storage techniques and improvements in user-interfaces. | Varies |
| APS Corporate Giving - Funds projects in the areas including education, arts and culture, and health and human services throughout Arizona. No formal application process. | Varies |
| Phoenix Greyhound Racing Foundation offers over $6 million yearly to organizations throughout Arizona. | Varies |
| The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is currently funding projects that forge partnerships between education institutions and communities to promote learning, academic performance, and workforce preparation among vulnerable young people, ages 0 - 24. All prospective grantees are encouraged to include, as appropriate, one or more Learning Opportunity elements -- Leadership, Information and Communication Technology, when designing their proposal. The Foundation believes these elements can enhance work in all interest/priority areas. | Varies |
| The Kresge Foundation's Capital Challenge Grants program funds non-profits with strong volunteer and board support in the areas of higher education. | $50,000 - $1 million |
| Lumina Foundation seeks to foster significant and lasting improvement in college access and success, particularly among traditionally undeserved student groups | Varies |
| The Getty Foundation has Archival Grants which support the basic arrangement and description of important archival collections of art-historical material in order to make them more accessible to scholars. Most projects result in the creation of an electronic finding aid. | Varies |
| RGK Foundation awards grants in the broad areas of Education, Community, and Medicine/Health. The Foundation's primary interests within Education include programs that focus on formal K-12 education (particularly mathematics, science and reading), teacher development, literacy, and higher education. | $25,000 max |