Want to be a participant?
Check out the
list of workshops being offered this summer.
To obtain a
printed version of these |
guidelines, call
202-606-8446, send an |
e-mail to info@neh.gov, or
write to |
NEH, Office of Public
Affairs, |
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW, |
Washington, DC
20506. |
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Date posted: January 14, 2008
Draft Proposals (optional):
Program staff recommend that draft proposals be submitted four weeks before the deadline.
Time constraints may prevent staff from reviewing draft proposals submitted after that date.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 45.163
Questions?
Contact the staff of NEH's Division of Education Programs at 202-606-8463
or sem-inst@neh.gov. Hearing-impaired applicants can
contact NEH via TDD at 1-866-372-2930.
As part of NEH's We the People program, the Landmarks of American History and Culture
program supports series of one-week residence-based workshops for K-12 educators that use
historic sites to address central themes and issues in American history, government, literature,
art history, or other related subjects in the humanities. The goals of the workshops are to:
- provide teachers with training and experience in the use and interpretation of historical sites and the material resources and archival evidence of American history and culture,
- increase knowledge and appreciation of places significant to American history and culture, and
- encourage historical sites to develop greater capacity and scale for professional development programs.
Workshops should be held at or near sites important to American history and culture
(e.g., presidential residences or libraries, Colonial-era settlements, major battlefields,
historic districts, and sites associated with major writers or artists). Applicants should
make a compelling case for the historical significance of the site, the material resources
available for use, and the ways the site will enhance the workshop.
Workshops should be academically rigorous and focus on key primary sources, documents, and works
relevant to major themes of American history and culture. Leading scholars should serve as
lecturers or seminar leaders. Workshops should also include interactions with master teachers to
help participants work with primary documents and develop lesson plans, classroom resources,
or a research paper. Institutions or organizations that may host workshops include community
colleges, universities, four-year colleges, learned societies, libraries or other repositories,
centers for advanced study, cultural organizations, or professional associations. NEH expects host
institutions to provide facilities conducive to scholarly research, discussion, and interaction.
Host institutions should arrange adequate housing for participants, which participants pay for
from the stipends provided to them as part of the Landmarks Workshop grant.
Workshops, which should be repeated two to three times during the summer, should accommodate forty teachers at each one-week session.
Grants for Landmarks of American History and Culture may not be used for:
- empirical social scientific research;
- specific policy studies;
- educational or technical impact assessments;
- work undertaken in the pursuit of an academic degree;
- the preparation or publication of textbooks;
- projects that focus on cognitive psychology, pedagogical theory, research on educational methods, tests, or measurements; or
- projects devoted to advocacy.
The Endowment currently sponsors one agency-wide program, We the People, and two special initiatives, Rediscovering Afghanistan and the Digital Humanities Initiative. Below is information on each.
The NEH encourages applications in these three special areas of interest. Proposals will be evaluated through NEH's established review process and will not receive special consideration.
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We the People Grant Program |
To help Americans make sense of their history and of the world around them, NEH has established
the We the People program. NEH encourages applications that explore significant events and themes in
our nation's history and culture and that advance knowledge of the principles that define America.
To learn more about We the People, visit the program's Web site.
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Picturing America |
NEH’s new Picturing America program introduces young people to some
of America’s great art treasures. As part of the NEH's We the People program,
Picturing America promotes the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture in K-12 schools. NEH encourages proposals for Landmarks of American History and Culture that focus on one or more of the Picturing America artists and their work and their physical context, including the homes and studios of the artists and the settings depicted in their works.
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Rediscovering
Afghanistan |
NEH invites applications for projects that focus on Afghanistan's history and culture.
The special initiative is designed to promote research, education, and public programs
about Afghanistan and to encourage United States institutions to assist
Afghanistan in efforts to preserve and document its cultural resources. Learn
more about the initiative.
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Digital Humanities Initiative |
NEH is interested in receiving applications for projects that use or study
the impact of digital technology. Digital technologies offer humanists new
methods of conducting research, conceptualizing relationships, and presenting
scholarship. Digital humanities projects deploy these technologies and methods
to enhance our understanding of a topic or issue. NEH is also interested
in projects that study the impact of digital technology on the humanities—exploring
the ways in which it changes how we read, write, think, and learn. Learn
more about the initiative.
Successful applicants will be awarded a grant of outright funds, matching funds, or a combination
of the two depending on the applicant's preference and the availability of NEH funds.
(Learn more about different types of grant funding.)
NEH expects to make twenty awards of up to $225,000 each, assuming that a one-week session costs approximately $75,000.
Cost Sharing
No cost sharing is required.
Award Period
The award period is fifteen months: October 1, 2008 to December 31, 2009
Any U.S. nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) tax exempt status is eligible, as are state and local governmental agencies and tribal governments.
Individuals are not eligible to apply.
NEH generally does not award grants to other federal entities or to applicants whose projects are so closely
intertwined with a federal entity that the project takes on characteristics of the federal entity’s own authorized
activities. This does not preclude applicants from using grant funds from, or sites and materials controlled by,
other federal entities in their projects.
Ineligible applications will not be reviewed.
Application advice and proposal drafts
Applicants are encouraged to contact program officers who may offer advice about preparing the proposal
and review preliminary proposal drafts if they are submitted at least one month before the deadline.
Responses to late-arriving drafts cannot be guaranteed. Although this preliminary review is not
part of the formal process and has no bearing on the final outcome of the proposal, previous
applicants have found it helpful in strengthening their applications.
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You will prepare your application for submission via Grants.gov just as you would
a paper application. Your application should consist of the following parts:
- Table of contents
List all parts of the application and page numbers.
- Narrative
Limit the narrative to fifteen double-spaced pages with one-inch margins and a font size no
smaller than eleven points. Use appendices to provide supplementary material.
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Provide a detailed description of the project consisting of the following
sections:
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- Intellectual rationale
Provide an intellectual justification for the workshop, addressing the importance of the subject for understanding American history and culture. Explain the significance of the selected site and how its resources will contribute to the workshop's goals. Identify topics participants will explore in the workshop and put them in their scholarly and educational contexts. Describe the intended impact on school teachers and their students.
- Content and design
Describe the structure of the workshops and what is expected of participants. Identify assigned and recommended readings, field trips, scholars' presentations, and discussion topics. Provide a detailed daily schedule. Maps and diagrams may be included to explain how the workshop will make use of the landmark. Describe plans for facilitating participants' individual projects (e.g., lesson plans, new curricula, or research papers) and for providing feedback.
- Faculty and staff
Identify the principal faculty, visiting lecturers,
master teachers, and support staff. Describe their roles, responsibilities,
and qualifications. In an appendix, provide up-to-date letters of
commitment and brief résumés (two pages). Individuals who bear primary
intellectual responsibility for the project must provide their full
résumés.
- Selection of participants
Fair review of applications requires that a selection committee be appointed. Explain who will be on the committee and how they will choose the participants. Although NEH will provide guidelines for general eligibility and selection criteria, applicants should indicate any special criteria pertinent to the proposed workshop. (For additional information about the eligibility requirements for participants in Landmarks Workshops for School Teachers, please see the listing of the 2008 workshops.)
- Professional development
NEH recognizes that many teachers will want to obtain continuing education units (CEUs) or in-service credit for their participation in a workshop. If the workshop has the potential for conveying professional development credit equivalency, the application should discuss how the program will provide documentation for teachers interested in obtaining such credit from their school district or state.
- Institutional context
Provide specific details about the availability, quality, and costs of housing. Describe the options for meals. Discuss the academic and technological resources available for the workshop.
- Dissemination and evaluation
Describe any plans, including listservs and Web sites, to facilitate discussion among participants after the workshop. NEH encourages extending the impact of the workshop to those who are unable to attend through project Web sites or other distance learning opportunities.
Applicants should describe their plan for both interim and final evaluations of their workshops.
- Project budget
Provide a budget for the workshop. A sample budget (1-page PDF) is available for guidance.
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All of the items listed must be reasonable, necessary to accomplish project objectives, allowable in terms of the applicable federal cost principles, auditable, and incurred during the grant period. Charges to the project for items such as salaries, fringe benefits, travel, and contractual services must conform to the written policies and established practices of the applicant organization. When indirect costs are charged to the project, care should be taken that expenses included in the organization's indirect cost pool are not charged to the project as direct costs.
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- Participant stipends
Workshops, which should be repeated two to three times during the summer, should accommodate forty teachers at each one-week session. Each participant will receive a $750 stipend, which is intended to help cover housing, meals, and other living expenses, as well as basic books and other research expenses. NEH expects the sponsoring institution to make provision for suitable housing for participants at reasonable rates. For information on participant travel allowances, see item 6 below.
- Operating costs
Item 1: Salaries and wages
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Item 1a: Project directors are generally compensated for the time required to conduct the residential portion of the project during the summer and for the time required to oversee all arrangements and to recruit and select the participants. The following percentages of the base annual academic salary (the salary for the academic year prior to the summer of the project) are recommended as appropriate compensation: 15% for three one-week sessions and 12% for two one-week sessions. If there is more than one director, each should receive 80% of these amounts.
In some instances, compensation may be reduced if an administrative assistant, project coordinator, or co-director will carry out many project tasks. Directors or co-directors should assume no other commitments during the time the participants are in residence.
Item 1b: List other project faculty or lecturers or professional administrative staff employed by the applicant institution. Depending on their assignments and duties, their compensation may be calculated on the basis of an appropriate percentage of their full-time academic year or administrative salary or on a per diem basis. The role and duties that the project staff performs should justify the costs charged to the workshop budget.
Item 1c: List clerical and secretarial support, as well as any support graduate assistants will provide.
Item 2: Fringe benefits
Calculate fringe benefits for those individuals employed by the applicant institution and listed on lines 1 a, b, or c. Fringe benefits may include contributions for such items as social security, employee insurance, and pension plans. Only those benefits that are not included in an organization's indirect cost pool may be shown as direct costs. Also, fringe benefits for clerical, administrative, and part-time personnel may be calculated at different rates than for employees on academic year appointments. The breakdown shown in the budget form should reflect these calculations.
Item 3: Supplies and materials
A request may be made to cover reasonable administrative and project charges for consumable supplies (e.g., computer diskettes, instructional materials, educational software, etc.) and expendable equipment (i.e., equipment items costing less than $5,000 and with an estimated useful life of less than one year). Please note that these costs may be included only if they are not part of the indirect cost pool.
Item 4: Services
Services include the cost of duplication and printing, long-distance telephone charges and postage, rental of films and equipment, and subcontracts of any kind. All charges must be essential to the project. (See the section on inadmissible budget items.) Justify these modest requests in the budget narrative. Include an itemization of subcontract costs.
Note. The budget should include sufficient funds for duplicating and mailing information and materials about the project for those persons who do not wish to receive them electronically. If a grant is awarded, NEH will publicize the slate of Landmarks Teacher Workshops on its Web site. To supplement this general publicity, project budgets should include a modest amount of funds (up to $1,000) for publicity efforts to constituencies unique to the specific project.
Item 5: Consultant fees
List those individuals who will contribute to the project as visiting lecturers, leaders of study sessions, and master teachers, but who are not employed by the applicant institution. Programs may pay honoraria for distinguished visiting faculty up to $750 per person per day. Enter travel and subsistence reimbursement for consultants on line 6.
Item 6: Professional travel and subsistence
List travel and accommodation expenses for visiting consultants listed in Item 5. Include costs for the project director’s travel to a 2-day project directors’ meeting held in Washington, D.C. The project director’s travel to and from a workshop site is allowed, as are accommodation expenses at that site. Calculate costs in conformity with the applicant institution's policy.
Calculate participant travel allowances at a total of $12,000 for each week-long workshop session.
Item 7: Total direct costs are calculated by adding items
1 through 6.
- Indirect costs (overhead)
These costs are incurred for common or joint objectives and therefore cannot be readily identified with a specific project or activity of an organization. Examples of indirect cost items are the salaries of executive officers, the costs of operating and maintaining facilities, local telephone service, office supplies, and accounting and legal services.
Calculate indirect costs by applying a negotiated indirect cost rate to a distribution base (typically a portion of the direct costs of the project). Organizations that wish to include overhead charges in the budget but do not have a current federally negotiated indirect cost rate or have not submitted a pending indirect cost proposal to a federal agency may choose one of the following options:
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- NEH will not require the formal negotiation of an indirect
cost rate, provided the charge for indirect costs does not exceed
10 percent of direct costs, less distorting items (e.g., capital
expenditures, participant stipends, major subcontracts), up
to a maximum total project charge of $5,000 per year. (Applicants
who choose this option should understand that they must maintain
documentation to support overhead charges claimed as part of
project costs.)
- If your organization wishes to use a rate higher
than 10 percent or claim more than $5,000 in indirect costs
per year, provide an estimate of the indirect cost rate and the charges
on the budget form. If the application is
approved for funding, you will be instructed to contact the
NEH office of Inspector General to develop an indirect cost
proposal.
- Amount requested from NEH
Amount requested includes items A, B, and C.
Budget Narrative
A brief budget narrative may be included when requested costs are unusual or not obviously related to the proposed project. Clarification of requested compensation levels may be useful here. If released time from teaching duties is proposed, indicate clearly how it will be used. Provide justifications for equipment rentals and purchases in the narrative.
Inadmissable budget items
The following costs are not allowable and may not appear in project budgets:
- The cost of replacement teachers or compensation for faculty members performing their regular duties.
- The rental of recreational facilities and costs related
to social events (e.g., banquets, receptions, and entertainment).
- Tuition fees for participants. (Credit may be awarded to participants seeking it at the discretion of the applicant institution. If any filing fee or tuition must be charged, fix it at the lowest possible rate and charge it directly to those participants wishing to receive credit. Do not deduct such fees from the participants' stipends.)
- Appendices
Limit your appendices to essential materials only, including:
- expanded study plans,
- detailed reading lists,
- résumés, and
- letters of commitment.
Number the pages of the appendices and refer to items included in the appendices in the proposal narrative.
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REGISTER OR VERIFY REGISTRATION WITH GRANTS.GOV
Applications for this program must be submitted via Grants.gov. Before using Grants.gov for the first time, each organization must register with the Web site to create an institutional profile. Once registered, your organization can then apply for any government grant on the Grants.gov Web site.
If your organization has already registered and you have verified that your registration
is still valid, you may skip this step. If not, please see our
handy checklist
to guide you through the registration process. We strongly recommend
you complete or verify your registration at least two weeks before the application
deadline, as it takes time for your registration to be processed. If
you have problems registering with Grants.gov, call the Grants.gov help
desk at 1-800-518-4726.
DOWNLOAD THE FREE ADOBE READER SOFTWARE
To fill out a Grants.gov application package, you will need to download
and install the current version of Adobe Reader. (Please note: NEH grant programs
with deadlines on or after March 1, 2008, will no longer require applicants to download
the PureEdge Viewer from the Grants.gov Web site.) The latest version of Adobe Reader,
which is designed to function with PCs and Macintosh computers using a variety of popular
operating systems, is available at no charge from the Adobe Web site
(www.adobe.com).
Once installed, the current version of Adobe Reader will allow you to
view and fill out Grants.gov application packages for any federal agency.
If you have a problem installing Adobe Reader, it may be because you do
not have permission to install a new program on your computer. Many organizations
have rules about installing new programs. If you encounter a problem,
contact your system administrator.
DOWNLOAD APPLICATION
PACKAGE
To submit your application, you will need to download the application
package from the Grants.gov Web site. You can download the application
package at any time. (You do not have to wait for your Grants.gov
registration to be complete.) Click the button to the right to download
the package.
Save the application package to your computer's hard drive. To open |
| the application package, select the file and
double click. You do not have to be online to work on it.
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You can save your application package at any time by clicking the "Save" button at the top of your screen.
Tip: If you choose to save your application package before you have completed it, you may receive
an error message indicating that your application is not valid if all of the forms have not been completed.
Click "OK" to save your work and complete the package another time. You can also use e-mail to share the
application package with members of your organization or project team.
The application package contains three forms that you must complete in order to submit your application:
- Application for Federal Domestic Assistance - Short Organizational (SF-424 Short)—this
form asks for basic information about the project, the project director, and the institution.
- Supplementary Cover Sheet for NEH Grant Programs—this form asks for additional information
about the project director, the institution, and the budget.
- NEH Attachment Form—this form allows you to attach your narrative, budget, and the other
parts of your application.
HOW TO FILL OUT THE APPLICATION FOR FEDERAL DOMESTIC
ASSISTANCE SF-424 SHORT FORM
Select the form from the menu and double click to open it. Please provide the following information:
- Name of Federal Agency: This will be filled in automatically with "National Endowment
for the Humanities."
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: This will be filled in automatically with
the CFDA number and title of the NEH program to which you are applying.
- Date Received: Please leave blank.
- Funding Opportunity Number: This will be filled in automatically.
- Applicant Information: In this section, please supply the name, address, employer/taxpayer
identification number (EIN/TIN), DUNS number, Web site address, and congressional district of the institution.
Also choose the "type" that best describes your institution (you only need to select one).
If your institution is located, for example, in the 5th Congressional
District of your state, put a "5." If your institution doesn't have a
congressional district (e.g. it is in a state or U.S. territory that
doesn't have districts or is in a foreign country), put a "0" (zero).
All institutions applying to federal grant programs are required to provide a DUNS number, issued by Dun
& Bradstreet, as part of their application. Project directors should contact their institution’s grant
administrator or chief financial officer to obtain their institution’s DUNS number. Federal grant applicants
can obtain a DUNS number free of charge by calling 1-866-705-5711. (Learn more
about the requirement.)
- Project Information: Provide the title of your project. Your title should be brief, descriptive, and substantive. It should also be informative to a non-specialist audience. Provide a brief description of your project. The description should be written for a non-specialist audience and clearly state the importance of the proposed work and its relation to larger issues in the humanities. List the starting and ending dates for your project.
- Project Director: Provide the Social Security Number, name, title, mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone and fax numbers for the project director.
Disclosure of Social Security Numbers is optional. NEH uses them for internal application processing only.
- Primary Contact/Grants Administrator: Provide the contact information for the official responsible for the administration of the grant (e.g., negotiating the project budget and ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions of the award). This person is often a grants or research officer or a sponsored programs official. Normally, the Institutional Grants Administrator is not the same person as the Project Director. If the project director and the grant administrator are the same person, skip to item 9.
- Authorized Representative: Provide the contact information for the Authorized Organization Representative (AOR) who is submitting the application on behalf of the institution. This person, often called an "Authorizing Official," is typically the president, vice president, executive director, provost, or chancellor. In order to become an AOR, the person must be designated by the institution's E-Business Point of Contact. For more information, please consult the Grants.gov user guide, which is available at: http://www.grants.gov/applicants/applicant_help.jsp.
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HOW TO FILL OUT THE SUPPLEMENTARY COVER SHEET FOR NEH
GRANT PROGRAMS
Select the form from the menu and double click to open it. Please provide the following information:
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- Project Director: Use the pull down menu to select the major field of study for the project director.
- Institution Information: Use the pull down menu to select your type of institution.
- Project Funding: Enter your project funding information. Note that applicants
for Challenge Grants should use the right column only; applicants to all other programs should use
the left column only.
- Application Information: Indicate whether the applications will be submitted
to other NEH grant programs, government agencies, or private entities for funding. If so, please
indicate where and when. NEH frequently cosponsors projects with other funding sources. Providing this
information will not prejudice the review of your application.
For Type of Application, check "new" if the application requests a new period of funding,
whether for a new project or the next phase of a project previously funded by NEH. Check "supplement"
if the application requests additional funding for a current NEH grant. If requesting a supplement,
provide the current grant number (applicants should discuss their request with a NEH program officer
before submitting such an application).
For Project Field Code, use the pull down menu to select the humanities field of the
project. If the project is multidisciplinary, choose the field that corresponds to the project's predominant discipline.
HOW TO USE THE NEH ATTACHMENT FORM
You will use this form to attach the various files that make up your application.
Your attachments must be in Portable Document Format (.pdf). We cannot accept attachments in their
original word processing or spreadsheet formats. If you don't already have software to convert your
files into PDFs, there are many low-cost and free software packages available. To learn
more, go to http://www.neh.gov/grants/grantsgov/pdf.html.
When you open the NEH Attachment Form, you will find 15 attachment buttons, labeled "Attachment
1" through "Attachment 15." By clicking on a button, you will be able to choose the file from
your computer that you wish to attach. You must name and attach your files in the proper order
so that we can identify them. Please attach the proper file to the proper button as listed below:
ATTACHMENT 1: To this button, please attach your table of contents. Please name the file "contents.pdf".
ATTACHMENT 2: To this button, please attach your narrative. Please name the file "narrative.pdf".
ATTACHMENT 3: To this button, please attach your budget. Please name the file "budget.pdf".
ATTACHMENT 4: To this button, please attach your appendices. Please name the file "appendices.pdf".
Use the remaining buttons to attach any additional materials (if appropriate). Please give these
attachments meaningful file names and ensure that they are PDFs.
UPLOADING YOUR APPLICATION TO GRANTS.GOV
When you have completed all three forms, use the right-facing arrow to move each of them to the
"Mandatory Documents for Submission" column. Once they have been moved over, the "Submit" button will
activate. You are now ready to upload your application package to Grants.gov.
During the registration process, your institution designated one or more AORs (Authorized Organization
Representatives). These AORs typically work in your institution's Sponsored Research Office or Grants Office.
When you have completed your application, you must ask your AOR to submit the application, using the special
username and password that was assigned to him or her during the registration process.
To submit your application, your computer must have an active connection to the Internet. To begin the
submission process, click the "submit" button. A page will appear asking you to sign and submit your
application. At this point, your AOR will enter his or her username and password. When you click the
"sign and submit application" button, your application package will be uploaded to Grants.gov. Please note
that it may take some time to upload your application package depending on the size of your files and
the speed of your Internet connection.
After the upload is complete, a confirmation page, which includes a tracking number, will appear indicating
that you have submitted your application to Grants.gov. Please print this page for your records. The AOR will
also receive a confirmation e-mail.
NEH suggests that you submit your application no later than 5:00 p.m.
Eastern Time on the day of the deadline. That way, should you encounter
a technical problem of some kind, you will still have time to contact
the Grants.gov help desk for support. The Grants.gov help desk is open
Monday to Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time at 1-800-518-4726.
You can also send an e-mail to support@grants.gov.
DEADLINES
Draft proposals (optional): Program staff recommends that draft proposals be submitted four weeks before the deadline. Time constraints may prevent staff from reviewing draft proposals submitted after that date.
Applications must be received by Grants.gov March 17, 2008.
Grants.gov will date/time stamp your application after it is fully uploaded.
Applications submitted after that date will not be accepted.
Proposals for Landmarks in American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers are evaluated according to the following criteria:
- Intellectual quality and significance
- Is the proposal's intellectual rationale clear and persuasive?
- Has the applicant explained the significance of the site?
- Does the study engage topics and texts important for understanding American history and culture?
- Does it draw on sound humanities research?
- Do the principal faculty members have strong scholarly records and a demonstrated commitment to excellent teaching?
- Impact
- Will the project meet its objectives?
- Will the workshop actively engage participants in collegial intellectual inquiry?
- Will it inform participants' teaching skills and scholarship?
- Will it lead to a deeper engagement with the humanities?
- Feasibility
- Are the workshop personnel qualified to carry out their responsibilities?
- Are the workshop activities well planned and described in adequate detail?
- Do letters from visiting scholars and consultants demonstrate interest and commitment?
- Does the institutional setting support the workshop's objectives both in terms of access to scholarly resources
and opportunities for collegial interaction?
- Are the plans for administration sound? Are the costs reasonable?
Late applications will not be reviewed.
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Review and selection process
Knowledgeable persons outside NEH will read each application and advise the agency about its merits.
The Endowment’s staff comments on matters of fact or on significant issues that otherwise would
be missing from these reviews, then makes recommendations to the National Council on the Humanities.
The National Council meets at various times during the year to advise the NEH chairman on grants.
The chairman takes into account the advice provided by the review process and, by law, makes
all funding decisions.
Award notices
Applicants will be notified by mail by October 2008 of the decision.
Institutional grants administrators and project directors of successful
applications will also receive at that time award documents by mail. Applicants
may obtain the reasons for funding decisions on their applications by
sending a letter or e-mail to:
NEH, Division of Education Programs
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Room 302
Washington, D.C. 20506
or sem-inst@neh.gov.
Administrative requirements
Before submitting an application, applicants should review their
responsibilities as an award recipient and the lobbying certification requirement.
Award conditions
The requirements for awards are contained in the General Terms and
Conditions for Awards to Organizations, any specific terms and conditions contained in the award document,
and the applicable
OMB circulars governing federal grants
management.
Reporting Requirements
A schedule of report due dates will be included with the award document.
Interim and final performance reports will be required. Further details
can be found in Performance
Reporting Requirements (formerly Enclosure 2).
A Federal Cash
Transactions Report (2-page PDF) will be due within 30 days after the
end of each calendar quarter. A final Financial Status
Report (2-page PDF) will be due within 90 days after the completion
date of the award period. Further details can be found in Financial
Reporting Requirements (formerly Enclosure 1).
If you have questions about the program, contact:
Landmarks of American History and Culture:
Workshops for School Teachers
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