Upcoming Grants Related to Arts & Humanities
City of Santa Fe: Global Arts Marketing Support
Deadline: Feb 6, 2020
Global Arts Marketing Support provides larger contract amounts to bigger nonprofit arts organizations for providing marketing/promotional services of major cultural events and year-round institutional programs. Organizations also provide programs and services that support the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission’s work in the areas of youth arts, economic growth, creative spaces, and engagement. To be...
U.S. Department of the Interior: American Battlefield Protection Program
Deadline: Jan 31, 2020
The Battlefield Protection Program will support projects that relate to planning, interpreting, and protecting sites where historic battles were fought on American soil during the armed conflicts that shaped the growth and development of the United States. Types of projects that these grants have funded include: Site Identification and Documentation Projects Historical research Resource surveys...
National Endowment for the Arts: Challenge America
Deadline: Apr 9, 2020
The Challenge America category offers support primarily to small and mid-sized organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations – those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability. Age alone (e.g., youth, seniors) does not qualify a group as underserved; at least one...
National Endowment for the Arts: Grants for Arts Projects
Deadline: Feb 13, 2020
Grants for Arts Projects is the National Endowment for the Arts’ (NEA) principal grants program. Through project-based funding, it supports public engagement with, and access to, various forms of excellent art across the nation, the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, learning in the arts at all stages of life, and...
Righteous Persons Foundation
Deadline: Jan 15, 2020
The Righteous Persons Foundation is dedicated to supporting efforts that build a vibrant, just, and inclusive Jewish community in the United States. The Foundation is currently targeting national-level projects that: Foster Jewish arts, culture, and identity: To revitalize and illuminate Jewish identity today, the Foundation will invest in projects that make the old new. This...
National Trust for Historic Preservation: African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund
Deadline: Jan 15, 2020
Grants from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund are designed to advance ongoing preservation activities for historic places such as sites, museums, and landscapes representing African American cultural heritage. The fund supports work in four primary areas: Capital Projects, Organizational Capacity Building, Project Planning, and Programming and Interpretation. Amount:...
National Archives and Records Administration: Publishing Historical Records in Documentary Editions
Deadline: Jun 10, 2020
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) of the National Archives supports projects that promote access to America’s historical records to encourage understanding of the nation’s democracy, history, and culture. The NHPRC seeks proposals to publish documentary editions of historical records. Projects may focus on broad historical movements in U.S. history, such as politics,...
Craig H. Neilsen Foundation: Creating Opportunity & Independence
Deadline: Jan 10, 2020
The Creating Opportunity & Independence (CO&I) portfolio supports organizations that provide programs and services that enhance the quality of life for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). Areas of focus include: assistive technology, education, employment, independent living, rehabilitation, and arts, sports, and recreation. There are two funding categories in the CO&I portfolio: Community Support Grants...
Institute of Museum and Library Services: Native American Library Services Enhancement Grant
Deadline: May 1, 2020
Native American Enhancement grants seek to carry out activities that advance the programs and services of Native American libraries. Successful Native American Enhancement grant projects should result in measurable changes and outcomes, such as increased understanding, interest, and confidence among participants. Native American Enhancement grant projects support the following activities: Support for individuals’ needs for...
D’Addario Foundation
Deadline: Mar 31, 2020
The D’Addario Foundation provides monetary and product support to high-quality sustainable music instruction programs on the frontline to improve access to music education. It supports programs that bring music back into communities and schools and get kids playing as early and as frequently as possible. The Foundation believes in the transformative power of music and...
National Endowment for the Humanities: Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
Deadline: Jan 30, 2020
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections (SCHC) program seeks to help cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting sustainable conservation measures that mitigate deterioration, prolong the useful life of collections, and support institutional resilience: the ability to...
Kerr Foundation
Deadline: Jan 17, 2020
The Kerr Foundation supports nonprofit organizations, programs, and institutions that provide new or enhanced opportunities to those within the granting areas, particularly the young. The Foundation believes that this is best accomplished in the areas of education, health, cultural development, and community service as follows: Education: Institutions of higher learning and pre-collegiate organizations including health...
National Endowment for the Humanities: Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions
Deadline: Jan 15, 2020
Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized institutions—such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, cultural organizations, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities—improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections. These may include special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound...
Samuel H. Kress Foundation: History of Art Grants Program
Deadline: Jan 15, 2020
The History of Art program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture. Grants are awarded to projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, including archival projects, development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, museum exhibitions and publications, photographic campaigns, scholarly catalogues and publications, and technical and...
Thoma Foundation
Deadline: Dec 31, 2019
The Thoma Art Foundation recognizes the power of the arts to challenge and shift perceptions, spark creativity, and connect people across cultures. It lends and exhibits artworks from its collection and supports innovative individuals and pivotal initiatives in the arts. The Foundation will fund programs that provide promising new insights into the fields of art...