Upcoming Grants Related to Arts & Humanities
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...
National Geographic: Enduring Impacts – Archaeology of Sustainability
Deadline: Apr 22, 2020
The Enduring Impacts – Archaeology of Sustainability initiative focuses on the gathering and analysis of archaeological, paleoenvironmental, and paleoclimatological data for the purposes of increasing understanding of human-environmental interactions over time, to ultimately contribute to mitigating contemporary environmental and climatic crises. Current issues like climate change, overpopulation, disruptions in food security, and loss of habitat...
American Council of Learned Societies: Digital Extension Grants
Deadline: Jan 8, 2020
The Digital Extension Grants program will support digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. It is hoped that these grants will help advance humanistic scholarship by enhancing established digital projects, extending their reach to new communities of users, and supporting teams of scholars at all career stages as...
Bloomberg Philanthropies: Asphalt Art Initiative
Deadline: Dec 12, 2019
Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Asphalt Art Initiative responds to the growing number of cities around the world embracing art as an effective and relatively low-cost strategy to activate their streets. The initiative will provide support to small and medium sized U.S. cities to implement “asphalt art” interventions, defined as visual interventions on roadways (intersections and crosswalks), pedestrian...
National Endowment for the Humanities: Public Humanities Projects
Deadline: Jan 8, 2020
The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences through in-person programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. This program supports projects in three categories: Exhibitions (permanent, temporary, or traveling);...
Council on Library and Information Resources: Recordings at Risk Grant Program
Deadline: Jan 31, 2020
Recordings at Risk is a national regranting program that will support the preservation of rare and unique audio and audiovisual content of high scholarly value through digital reformatting. Awards cover costs of preservation reformatting for fragile and/or obsolete time-based media content by qualified external service providers. Eligible media may include, but are not necessarily limited...
Libraries and Autism: Autism Welcome Here
Deadline: Dec 2, 2019
The Autism Welcome Here: Library Programs, Services and More grant honors the work of Meg Kolaya for her contributions in promoting inclusion, connecting libraries and the autism community, and bringing awareness of the needs of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their families to the library community. The grants will fund projects and services for...
National Endowment for the Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants
Deadline: Jan 15, 2020
Digital Humanities Advancement Grants (DHAG) support innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects at different stages of their lifecycles, from early start-up phases through implementation and sustainability. Experimentation, reuse, and extensibility are hallmarks of this program, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. Proposals are...
National Endowment for the Humanities: Short Documentaries
Deadline: Jan 8, 2020
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Short Documentaries program supports the production and distribution of documentary films up to 30 minutes that engage audiences with humanities ideas in appealing ways. The program aims to extend the humanities to new audiences through the medium of short documentary films. Films must be grounded in humanities scholarship...
National Endowment for the Humanities: Media Projects – Production Grants
Deadline: Jan 8, 2020
The Media Projects – Production Grants program supports the production and distribution of radio, podcast, television, and long-form documentary film projects that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. All projects must be grounded in humanities scholarship. Projects must also demonstrate an approach that is thoughtful, balanced, and analytical. The approach...
National Endowment for the Humanities: Media Projects – Development Grants
Deadline: Jan 8, 2020
The Media Projects – Development Grants program supports the collaboration of media producers and scholars to develop humanities content and to prepare documentary film, television, radio, and podcast projects that engage public audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. Awards should result in a script (for documentary film or television programs) or a...
The Atlantic and Allstate: Renewal Awards
Deadline: Dec 10, 2019
The Renewal Awards are a program from the Atlantic and Allstate that recognizes the social innovation demonstrated by thousands of nonprofits that are finding creative solutions to America’s most pressing problems. Nominated nonprofits will be judged on: 501(c)(3) status and an online presence, including a Facebook account, Twitter account, YouTube channel, or website Score on...
Society of American Archivists Foundation
Deadline: Dec 1, 2019
The Society of American Archivists (SAA) Foundation provides resources to enhance the work of the archival community. To that end, the SAA Foundation will support: Research and reporting about the profession, its practice, and its practitioners Development of professional growth opportunities Recognition of archivists via scholarships, travel assistance, and awards Programs to enhance the performance...
Daughters of the American Revolution: Historic Preservation Grants
Deadline: Dec 31, 2019
Since its founding in 1890, the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) has supported historic preservation as one of its three main mission areas (along with patriotism and education). In tens of thousands of locations around the world, the DAR has saved historic properties, erected historic markers, digitized documents, and helped...
Classics for Kids Foundation
Deadline: Dec 31, 2019
The mission of Classics for Kids Foundation is to empower young people to shape positive futures through music, build sustainable stringed instrument music programs, and provide grants for high-quality instruments. The Foundation strengthens strings programs through matching grants, which encourage partnership with local philanthropy. Students with beautiful new instruments are more engaged, tend to practice...