Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants
The summary for the Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants grant is detailed below.
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Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants: The mission of this Challenge Grants program is to strengthen the institutional base of the humanities by enabling infrastructure development and capacity building. Grants aim to help institutions secure long-term support for their core activities and expand efforts to preserve and create access to outstanding humanities materials. Applications are welcome from colleges and universities, museums, public libraries, research institutions, historical societies and historic sites, scholarly associations, state humanities councils, and other nonprofit humanities entities. Programs that involve collaboration among multiple institutions are eligible as well, but one institution must serve as the lead agent and formal applicant of record. Through these grants organizations can increase their humanities capacity with spend-down funds that generate expendable earnings to support and enhance ongoing program activities. Eligible activities include the documentation of cultural heritage materials that are lost or imperiled; the preservation and conservation of humanities materials; and the sustaining of digital scholarly infrastructure. Challenge grants may also provide capital directly supporting the purchase of equipment and software; the design, purchase, construction, restoration, or renovation of facilities needed for humanities activities; and collections sharing. Such direct expenditures bring long-term benefits to the institution and to the humanities more broadly. Grantee institutions may also expend up to 10 percent of total grant funds (federal funds plus matching funds) to defray costs of fundraising to meet the NEH challenge. Challenge grant funds (both federal and nonfederal together) must enhance the humanities in the long term. Challenge grant funds should not merely replace funds already being expended, but instead should reflect careful strategic planning to strengthen and enrich an institution's humanities activities. Institutions may use challenge grant funds to meet both ongoing and one-time humanities-related costs, provided that the long-term benefit of the expenditure can be demonstrated.
Federal Grant Title: | Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants |
Federal Agency Name: | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) |
Grant Categories: | Humanities |
Type of Opportunity: | Discretionary |
Funding Opportunity Number: | 20180315-CHA |
Type of Funding: | Grant |
CFDA Numbers: | 45.130 |
CFDA Descriptions: | Information not provided |
Current Application Deadline: | March 15th, 2018 |
Original Application Deadline: | March 15th, 2018 |
Posted Date: | January 16th, 2018 |
Creation Date: | January 16th, 2018 |
Archive Date: | No date given |
Total Program Funding: | |
Maximum Federal Grant Award: | $1,000,000 |
Minimum Federal Grant Award: | $1 |
Expected Number of Awards: | |
Cost Sharing or Matching: | Yes |
Last Updated: | January 16th, 2018 |
- Applicants Eligible for this Grant
- County governments - City or township governments - Special district governments - Public and State controlled institutions of higher education - Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) - Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education - Private institutions of higher education
- Link to Full Grant Announcement
- https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/infrastructure-and-capacity-building-challenge-grants
- Grant Announcement Contact
- Division of Preservation and Access
National Endowment for the Humanities
400 Seventh Street, SW
Washington, DC 20506
202-606-8309
[email protected]
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