Opportunity Information: Apply for 20210115 HAA
The Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program is a discretionary grant opportunity offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), specifically through its Office of Digital Humanities. It is designed to help move digital humanities work forward at many points in a project lifecycle, whether an idea is still in a start-up or prototyping phase, already being implemented, or entering a stage where long-term maintenance and sustainability planning are the main priorities. The central aim is to support digital projects that push methods, tools, and approaches in ways that are innovative, experimental, and in many cases computationally demanding, with an emphasis on producing work that can meaningfully strengthen humanities research, teaching, and public-facing programming.
A defining feature of this program is its focus on experimentation, reuse, and extensibility. In practical terms, NEH is signaling that it values projects that do not just solve a one-off problem for a single team, but instead generate approaches, data, platforms, or methods that others can build on, adapt, or scale. Projects that are designed so their outputs can be reused across institutions or contexts, and projects that create structures that can grow over time or interoperate with other systems, are a strong fit. The opportunity supports a broad range of digital humanities activity, including digital scholarship and infrastructure, tools and platforms, advanced computational analysis, and other technology-enabled work that expands what humanities scholars and cultural organizations can do.
In addition to project development and implementation, the program also supports humanities scholarship that critically examines digital culture and technology itself. That includes work focused on the history, criticism, or philosophy of digital technology, as well as studies of how digital tools, platforms, and computational practices shape society and culture. This means the opportunity is not limited to building digital products; it can also support interpretive and analytical scholarship about digital life and technological change, provided the work is grounded in humanities questions and methods.
Eligible applicants include a wide set of U.S.-based public and nonprofit entities: state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; and nonprofits with IRS 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education institutions). The funding opportunity is associated with CFDA number 45.169 and falls under the humanities funding activity category (with reference to cultural affairs). For the specific cycle described, the opportunity number is 20210115 HAA, the posting indicates an original closing date of January 15, 2021 (with a creation date of September 11, 2020), and it anticipated making about 15 awards. The maximum award amount listed is $375,000, indicating the program is positioned to fund substantial work, including technically complex builds, multi-phase development, or broader collaborations that require significant staffing and resources.Apply for 20210115 HAA
- The National Endowment for the Humanities in the humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Digital Humanities Advancement Grants" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.169.
- This funding opportunity was created on Sep 11, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jan 15, 2021. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $375,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 15 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: 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.
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