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Please let us know if you have information about grant calls and deadlines that would interest the Digital Scholarship community. If you are seeking funding for your project or are interested in pursuing any of the grants listed on this page, please contact Nikolaus Wasmoen (nlwasmoe@buffalo.edu) for more information about any support or resources the DSSN might be able to provide.
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| Funding Agency | Grant Title | RFP Announcement (*expected date) | Initial or Draft Submission Deadline | Final Deadline | Amount |
| ACLS-Mellon | Digital Justice | Fall 2024 * | December 2024 * | Seed Grants $10,000-$25,000; Development Grants $50,000-$100,000 | |
| This program addresses inequities in access to tools and support for digital work among scholars across various fields, those working with under-utilized or understudied source materials, and those in institutions with less support for digital projects. It promotes inclusion and sustainability by extending the opportunity to participate in the digital transformation of humanistic inquiry to a greater number of humanities scholars and projects at the beginning stages of development. ACLS have recordings of information sessions for the Digital Justice grants program from 2023 on YouTube. Click here to see the General Information Session, the Session on Data Ethics, Capacity Building for Seed Grants, and Capacity Building for Development Grants. | |||||
| CLIR-Mellon | Digitizing Hidden Special Collections & Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices | August 2024 * | November 2023 * | May 2025 * | $50,000-$300,000 |
| Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices, is set to create a groundbreaking opportunity for eligible nonprofit organizations in the US and Canada to digitize materials in any format. By providing essential funding to a diverse cohort of academic, independent, and community-based organizations, CLIR seeks to unlock access to previously unavailable or underutilized collections. This move is expected to foster broader recognition of the immense value in preserving resources that document the history of marginalized people to the advancement of social justice. CLIR hosts an Applicant Support Series currently focused on assembling final applications. You can find information on future webinars, as well as recordings and documents from past sessions on the award information page | |||||
| Humanities New York | Action Grant | March 2024 (1st round); August 2024 (2nd round) | April (round 1) and September (round 2) 2024 * | $6,500-$10,000, awarded in two rounds each year | |
| Action Grants offer $6,500 to $10,000 to implement humanities projects that encourage public audiences to reflect on their values, explore new ideas, and engage with others in their community. All subjects and themes relevant to the communities served are welcome. Humanities NY will host informational webinars for prospective grant applicants on April 10, April 24, May 8, and May 22, 2024. Register here. | |||||
| NEH | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | November 15, 2024* | February 13, 2025* | $250,000 | |
| The Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH) program supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through this program, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars and practitioners using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities. NEH recorded an informational webinar from December 2022. You can view it here. | |||||
| NEH | Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence | September 11, 2024* | December 11, 2024 | up to $750,000 for universities or organizations | |
| This new NEH grant program provides up to $750,000 to universities and independent research organizations to support the creation of humanities research centers focusing on the ethical, legal, or societal implications of artificial intelligence. | |||||
| NEH | Public Humanities Projects | May 14, 2024 * | August 14, 2024 * | Planning Grants up to $75,000; Implementation Grants up to $400,000 (plus an additional $100,000 for Positions in the Public Humanities possible) | |
| The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. Awards support projects that are intended to reach broad and diverse public audiences in non-classroom settings in the United States. Projects should engage with ideas that are accessible to the general public and employ appealing interpretive formats. Click here for a recording of the informational webinar hosted by NEH in 2023. | |||||
| NEH | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | April 16, 2024 * | July 16, 2024 * | Foundation Projects up to $50,000 (plus up to $10,000 in additional support for interinstitutional planning and pilot activities); Implementation Projects up to $350,000 | |
| Projects may address the holdings or activities of a single institution or may involve partnerships between organizations. Collaboration between humanities experts and information professionals is essential to broaden the scope of, and audiences for, proposed collections or reference resources. You should design a project that facilitates sharing, exchange, and the interoperability of humanities information and products, as well as ensures their long-term availability. Projects should expand participation in cultural heritage and promote engagement with primary sources. | |||||
| NEH | Digital Projects for the Public | March 12, 2024 * | June 12, 2024 * | Discovery Grants up to $30,000; Prototyping Grants up to $100,000; Production Grants up to $400,000 | |
| The Digital Projects for the Public program supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats, such as websites, mobile applications and tours, interactive touch screens and kiosks, games, and virtual environments. Click here to view a recording of the 2023 informational webinar held by NEH. | |||||
| NEH | Preservation and Access Education and Training | March 4, 2024 | April 9, 2024 | May 21, 2024 | $350,000 |
| This program supports projects that develop and implement educational programs for professionals who preserve and provide access to humanities collections. Such materials include but are not limited to paper-based, photographic, archaeological, ethnographic, artistic, audiovisual, digitized, and born-digital collections. Advancing long-term access to these materials for scholars, students, and the public requires skilled professionals from varied backgrounds and communities working in organizations large and small. Click here to view a recorded informational webinar hosted by NEH and posted March 2024. | |||||
| NEH | Cultural and Community Resilience | March 18, 2024 | April 11, 2024 | May 21, 2024 | up to $150,000 |
| The Cultural and Community Resilience program supports community-based efforts to mitigate climate change and COVID-19 pandemic impacts, safeguard cultural resources, and foster cultural resilience through identifying, documenting, and/or collecting cultural heritage and community experience. The program prioritizes projects from disadvantaged communities in the United States or its jurisdictions, and NEH encourages applications that employ inclusive methodologies. Click here for the recorded informational webinar held by NEH and posted March 2024. | |||||
| NEH | Research and Development | Feburary 29, 2024 | April 9, 2024 | May 21, 2024 | Tier I Grants up to $100,000; Tier II Grants up to $350,000 |
| The Research and Development program supports projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. These challenges include the need to find better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to the nation’s cultural heritage—from fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to technological obsolescence—and to develop advanced modes of organizing, searching, discovering, and using such materials. Click here for the 2024 pre-recorded informational webinar from the NEH. | |||||
| NEH | Collaborative Research | August 27, 2024 * | November 27, 2024 * | up to $250,000, or up to $300,000 for collaborations that include a community college or certain minority-serving institutions | |
| The Collaborative Research program aims to advance humanistic knowledge by supporting teams of scholars working on a joint endeavor. NEH encourages projects that incorporate multiple points of view, pursue new avenues of inquiry in the humanities, and lead to manuscripts for print publication or to scholarly digital projects. Collaborators may come from one or more institutions. They may propose research in a single field of study or interdisciplinary work. NEH encourages partnerships with researchers from the natural and social sciences, but projects must focus on humanistic content and employ humanistic methods. International collaboration is welcome, but scholars at U.S. institutions must contribute significantly to the project. Click here for a recording of the 2023 pre-application webinar hosted by NEH. | |||||
| NEH | Scholarly Editions and Translations | August 27, 2024 * | November 27, 2024 * | up to $65,000 in outright funds for projects at a planning stage for a period of up to two years; $300,000 in outright funds and up to $450,000 may be available if requesting at least $150,000 in matching funds for projects at an advanced stage. | |
| The Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations program provides grants to organizations to support collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to scholarship but are currently inaccessible or only available in inadequate editions or translations. Typically, the texts are significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials, but works in other humanities fields may also be the subject of an edition. The program supports continuous full-time or part-time activities during the period of performance of one to three years. At least two scholars must work collaboratively on the project. Typical project expenses include salary for editorial and research activities, travel to collections to verify source material, and consultant fees for translation, editorial work, and the implementation of a digital edition. Click here for a recording of the informational webinar from 2023 hosted by NEH. Click here for a recorded Q&A session. | |||||
| NEH | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities | July 2023 | September 12, 2024 | up to $75,000 for individual reseearchers; up to $150 for collaborative teams | |
| The Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (DOT) program supports research that examines technology and its relationship to society through the lens of the humanities, with a focus on the dangers and/or opportunities presented by technology. NEH is particularly interested in projects that examine the role of technology in shaping current social and cultural issues. Click here for a recording of the informational webinar from 2023. | |||||
| NEH | Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Research | June 25, 2024 * | September 25, 2024* | up to $150,000 | |
| Projects may be led by individuals with institutional affiliation or by teams of collaborating scholars from the same or multiple eligible institutions. Awards provide up to three years of support for fieldwork and data processing. While the ultimate expectation of such awards is the dissemination of results through publications and other media, this program supports costs related to fieldwork such as travel, accommodation, and equipment as well as compensation for field staff and salary replacement for the project director and collaborating scholars. Applicants interested in publishing the results of field research are encouraged to apply to one of NEH’s individual fellowship programs or Collaborative Research. Click here for a recorded informational webinar from 2023. | |||||
| NEH | Humanities Connections | June 2024 * | September 2024 * | Planning Grants up to $50,000; Implementation Grants up to $150,000 | |
| The Humanities Connections program seeks to expand the role of the humanities in undergraduate education at two- and four-year institutions by encouraging partnerships between humanities faculty and their counterparts in other areas of study. Awards support the planning or implementation of curricular projects connecting the humanities to the physical and natural sciences; pre-service or professional programs, including law and business; computer science, data science, and other technology-driven fields; or other non-humanities departments or schools. Projects must incorporate the approaches and learning activities of both the humanities and the non-humanities disciplines involved. To see the recorded informational webinars about the grant program, click here for Part 1 and here for Part 2. | |||||
| NEH-IMLS | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | August 2024 * | November 2024 (Optional draft submission; expected) | January 2025 * | Level I: up to $75,000; Level II: up to $150,000; Level III: up to $350,000, with an additional $100,000 in matching funds |
| The Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program (DHAG) supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. Click here for a recorded webinar for the 2024 deadline dates. | |||||
| NHPRC | Major Collaborative Archival Initiatives | February 15, 2024 | May 8, 2024 | $150,000-$350,000 for multiple institutions | |
| The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks projects that will significantly improve public discovery and use of major historical records collections. All types of historical records are eligible, including documents, photographs, born-digital records, and analog audio and moving images. All types of historical records are eligible, including documents, photographs, born-digital records, and analog audio and moving images. | |||||
| NHPRC | Archives Collaboratives | February 15, 2024 | May 8, 2024 | Planning Grants up to $25,000; Implementation Grants up to $100,000 | |
| The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks Archives Collaboratives of three or more repositories working together to make their collections more readily available for public discovery and use. Archives Collaboratives must consist of three or more organizations. | |||||
| NHPRC | Publishing Historical Records in Collaborative Digital Editions | February 15, 2024 | May 8, 2024 | up to $125,000 | |
| The goal of this program is to provide access to, and editorial context for, the historical documents and records that tell the American story. Applicants should demonstrate familiarity with the best practices recommended by the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) or the Modern Language Association (MLA) Committee on Scholarly Editions . Because of the focus on historical documentary sources, grants do not support preparation of critical editions of published works unless such works are just a small portion of the larger project. | |||||
| NHPRC | Public Engagement with Historical Records | August 2024 * | November 2024 * | $50,000-$150,000 | |
| The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks projects that encourage public engagement with historical records. The idea behind this program is to form collaborations among archivists, educators, historians (including documentary editors) and people working in community-based archives to involve the public in discovering and using historical records. The NHPRC is looking for collaborative projects that create models, tools, and technologies that other institutions can freely adopt to serve other communities. | |||||
| SUNY IITG | Innovative Instruction Technology Grant | December 12, 2023 | January 17, 2024 | March 17, 2024 | Level I Grants up to $30,000; Level II Grants $30,000-$60,000 (up to $100,000 for multi-campus/multi-sector projects) |
| The Innovative Instruction Technology Grant (IITG) program encourages SUNY faculty and staff to explore “technologies in service of pedagogy” by extending and experimenting beyond departmental and campus boundaries to pilot, share, and scale-up transformative teaching and learning practices. SUNY’s objective is to leverage and promote our shared commitment for leading sustainable, impactful innovations. Click here to view the RFP Informational Webinar from the 2024 cycle. | |||||
| Funding Agency | Grant Title | RFP Announcement (*expected date) | Initial or Draft Submission Deadline | Final Deadline | Amount |
| NEH | Fellowships | January 2024 * | April 2024 * | up to $60,000 ($5,000/month) for individuals | |
| NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Applications must clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. NEH Fellowships are part of the NEH "Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence Initiative," however the NEH encourages researchers with born-digital projects or digital publications apply instead for the NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication program. Click here for a recording of the informational webinar from 2024. | |||||
| NEH | Public Scholars | August 2024 * | November 2024 * | up to $60,000 ($5,000/month) for individuals | |
| The Public Scholars program offers grants to individual authors for research, writing, travel, and other activities leading to the creation and publication of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities written for the broad public. Writers with or without an academic affiliation may apply, and no advanced degree is required. The program encourages non-academic writers to deepen their engagement with the humanities by strengthening the research underlying their books, and it encourages academic writers in the humanities to communicate the significance of their research to the broadest possible range of readers. Click here for the recording of the informational webinar from 2023. | |||||
| NEH | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities | July 2023 | September 12, 2024 | up to $75,000 for individual reseearchers; up to $150 for collaborative teams | |
| See description above under "Collaborative Projects" | |||||
| NEH | Summer Stipends | June 2024 | September 2024 | up to $6,000 for individuals (1-2 months during the summer) | |
| Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research. This program fundis a wide range of individuals, including independent scholars, community college faculty, and non-teaching staff at universities. Click here for a recording of the informational webinar from 2023. | |||||
| NEH | Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Research | June 2024 * | September 2024 | up to $150,000 | |
| See description above under "Collaborative Projects" | |||||
| NEH-Mellon | Fellowships for Digital Publication | January 2024 | February 28, 2024 | April 17, 2024 | up to $60,000 ($5,000/month) for individuals |
| Fellowships for Digital Publication are competitive awards granted to individual scholars to support interpretive research projects that require digital expression and digital publication. To be considered under this opportunity, an applicant’s plans for digital publication must be integral to the project’s research goals. That is, the project must be conceived as digital because the research topics being addressed and methods applied demand presentation beyond traditional print or audio-video publication. Stand-alone documentaries and podcasts are not allowed. Applicants interested in conducting research and writing leading to traditional print or e-book publications should apply to the NEH Fellowships program. Click here for a recording of the informational webinar from 2024. | |||||
| NEH-NSF | Dynamic Language Infrastructure - Documenting Endangered Languages Fellowships | July 2023 | July 10, 2024 | September 11, 2024 | up to $60,000 ($5,000/month) for individuals |
| DLI-DEL Fellowships support individuals who are junior or senior linguists, linguistic anthropologists, and sociolinguists to conduct research on one or more endangered or moribund languages. DLI-DEL Fellowships prioritize scholarly analysis and publication, including but not limited to lexicons, grammars, databases, peer-reviewed articles, and monographs. Awards also support fieldwork and other activities relevant to digital recording, documenting, and sustainable archiving of endangered languages. Click here for a recording of the informational webinar from 2023. | |||||
| Funding Agency | Grant Title | RFP Announcement (*expected date) | Initial or Draft Submission Deadline | Final Deadline | Amount |
| Mellon Foundation | Multiple Programs: Arts and Culture; Higher Learning; Humanities in Place; Public Knowledge; Presidential Initiatives | Letters of inquiry accecpted on a rolling basis per individual program guidelines. | Recent awards by each program can be viewed on the program website. | ||
| Mellon only accepts proposals by invitation. If you have not received an invitation and are interested in funding from Mellon, you can submit an inquiry. | |||||
| Sloan Foundation | Multiple Programs: History of Science and Technology; Higher Education (STEM); Better Software for Science; Data & Computational Research; Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology; Public Understanding: New Media; Scholarly Communication | Letters of inquiry accecpted on a rolling basis per individual program guidelines. | Recent awards by each program can be viewed on the program website. | ||
| The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation makes grants through its various grantmaking programs. Grant applications are made to a particular program. Interested applicants should read carefully through the Foundation's program descriptions in the Programs section of the website. Each program page includes a statement of the program's goals, a description of the strategies employed, a list of recent grants, and a section with information about how to apply. Interested applicants are encouraged to browse through some of the grants made in the program to get a feeling for the kind of projects the program supports. | |||||