Radio Projects: Development and Production Grants

The summary for the Radio Projects: Development and Production Grants grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the National Endowment for the Humanities, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Radio Projects: Development and Production Grants: NEH supports radio programs that address significant figures, events, or developments in the humanities and draw their content from humanities scholarship. Grants are made to public radio organizations and stations as well as to independent radio producers affiliated with non-profit institutions. Development grants enable producers and scholars to develop the content and format and to prepare the programs for production. These grants cover a wide range of activities, including meetings and individual consultation with humanities scholars, field and archival research, preliminary interviews, preparation of program treatments, and, if desired, production of pilots. The product of development grants should be detailed program descriptions or treatments. Production grants enable producers and scholars to continue their engagement with humanities topics, and they support the production and postproduction of programs. Production grants can also be used to support the creation of companion websites for radio programs. Projects should engage diverse public audiences in the ideas, approaches, and resources of the humanities. Producers must collaborate with a team of scholars to ensure that the humanities themes and questions are well conceived and that the project is informed by significant scholarship. These advisers should represent the major areas of scholarship on the subject, have diverse perspectives and approaches, and represent a variety of institutions from across the country. Radio projects may: * develop new humanities content to augment existing radio programming or add the larger historical background or humanities analysis to the subjects of existing programs; * propose new programming models for presenting humanities content on radio or for reaching new audiences; * target the widest possible audiences in national, regional or local markets with stories that explore topics in a broad regional or national context; * feature documentary programs or historical dramatizations; * involve single programs, limited series, or segments to be broadcast within an existing, ongoing program vehicle; and * develop companion websites and digital projects to provide audiences with additional ways to explore a program's content and enhance the audience's understanding of the subject.