Common Heritage
The summary for the Common Heritage 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.
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Common Heritage: America's cultural heritage is preserved not only in libraries, museums, archives, and other community organizations, but also in all of our homes, family histories, and life stories. The Common Heritage program aims to capture this vitally important part of our country's heritage and preserve it for future generations. Common Heritage will support both the digitization of cultural heritage materials and the organization of outreach through community events that explore and interpret these materials as a window on the community's history and culture. The Common Heritage program considers a community to be a city or town (or a part of a city or town) that has been strongly shaped by geographical and historical forces. Members of the public in that community may have diverse family histories and heritage, or they may share a historical, cultural, or linguistic heritage. The program recognizes that members of the public—in partnership with libraries, museums, archives, and historical organizations—have much to contribute to the understanding of our cultural mosaic. Together, such institutions and the public can be effective partners in the appreciation and stewardship of our common heritage. The program supports events organized by community cultural institutions, which members of the public will be invited to attend. At these events experienced staff will digitize the community historical materials brought in by the public. Project staff will also record descriptive information—provided by community attendees—about the historical materials. Contributors will be given a free digital copy of their items to take home, along with the original materials. With the owner's permission, digital copies of these materials would be included in the institutions' collections. Historical photographs, artifacts, documents, family letters, art works, and audiovisual recordings are among the many items eligible for digitization and public commemoration. Projects must also provide community outreach via public events that would expand understanding of the community's history or heritage. Public programs could include lectures, panels, reading and discussion groups, special gallery tours, screening and discussion of relevant films, presentations by a historian, special initiatives for families and children, interpretation by curators about items brought in by the public, workshops on preserving heritage materials, or other activities that bring humanities perspectives on heritage materials to community audiences. These activities must be rooted in the analysis of and engagement with humanities questions. The programs may take place before, during, and/or after the day of the digitization event. Applicants must include in their proposals a humanities topic around which the event and the programs would be organized. Topics proposed for the public programs may also be proposed for the digitization event. The applicant institution must plan, promote, and organize the event and ensure that a wide range of historical materials can be digitized and also contextualized through public programming. Since the help of additional institutions and organizations in the community may be needed to accomplish this work, the applicant must take responsibility for enlisting appropriate organizations or institutions, such as local libraries and museums, to contribute to the project, as needed.
Federal Grant Title: | Common Heritage |
Federal Agency Name: | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) |
Grant Categories: | Humanities |
Type of Opportunity: | Discretionary |
Funding Opportunity Number: | 20180531-PY |
Type of Funding: | Grant |
CFDA Numbers: | 45.149 |
CFDA Descriptions: | Information not provided |
Current Application Deadline: | May 31st, 2018 |
Original Application Deadline: | May 31st, 2018 |
Posted Date: | March 28th, 2018 |
Creation Date: | March 28th, 2018 |
Archive Date: | No date given |
Total Program Funding: | |
Maximum Federal Grant Award: | $12,000 |
Minimum Federal Grant Award: | $1 |
Expected Number of Awards: | |
Cost Sharing or Matching: | No |
Last Updated: | March 28th, 2018 |
- Applicants Eligible for this Grant
- State governments - 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/common-heritage
- Grant Announcement Contact
- Common Heritage
National Endowment for the Humanities
400 Seventh Street, SW
Washington, DC 20506
202-606-8570 or [email protected]
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