The Advancing Knowledge program supports innovative, collaborative humanities projects that use digital technologies for the benefit of the American public, humanities scholarship and the nation’s cultural institutions. These grants require substantive collaborations among libraries, museums, archives, universities, and other cultural organizations. Grants support projects that explore new ways to share, examine and interpret humanities collections in a digital environment, that develop new uses and audiences for existing digital resources, or that result in extensible and transferable methodologies or tools.

Advancing Knowledge is a joint program of the IMLS through its Digital Connections Initiative and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through its Digital Humanities Initiative. Applications must include at least one library, museum or archives as an integral member of the project team. Awards typically range from $50,000 to a maximum of $350,000 for projects of up to two years. The application and award process for this program is managed by NEH. IMLS also provides support for the NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants. For more information see the program guidelines on the NEH Web site.