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Advice for Applicants to Upcoming NEH Grant Competitions
Some applicants for NEH grants report that they have recently had difficulty submitting their applications through Grants.gov; they found that the system has periodically been slow and unresponsive. This problem exists because Grants.gov—the system used by applicants to the grant programs of most federal government agencies—has recently had to deal with an unusually high volume of applications. The system has therefore been overloaded. Unfortunately, the problem is expected to continue at least through mid-summer, when system upgrades are scheduled to be installed.
In response to this problem, NEH offers the following advice to prospective applicants. We strongly urge you not to submit your application on the day of the deadline, but instead to submit your application early. If applications are submitted over a period of time, the load of applications should be more manageable for Grants.gov. Applying early will also give you a margin for error, should you need help from Grants.gov to resolve a technical problem when you attempt to submit your application. If possible, you should also plan to submit your application outside of normal business hours on the East Coast. Grants.gov tends to work more smoothly in the early morning, in the evening, and especially on weekends.
Successfully receiving your application is very important to us, so we hope that this advice will be helpful to you. And if you continue to have problems with Grants.gov, please contact NEH division or office staff, using the contact information provided in the program guidelines. We apologize for any inconvenience that you may encounter in submitting your application.
To check on the current status of Grants.gov, please consult the Grants.gov blog.
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The table below provides an alphabetical listing of the grants NEH offers. A list of grant programs and deadlines organized by division is also available.
Guidelines: To obtain application materials, click on the name of the grant program.
Forms: Links to the forms you will need to complete an application are noted at the beginning of each guideline. In order to download all of the necessary materials, you will need to have the free Adobe Reader installed.
Grant Programs
Program |
Receipt Deadline |
Projects
Beginning |
America's Historical and
Cultural Organizations:
Implementation Grants |
January 28, 2009
August 26, 2009 |
September 2009
April 2010 |
America's Historical and
Cultural Organizations:
Planning Grants |
January 28, 2009
August 26, 2009 |
September 2009
April 2010 |
America's
Media Makers: Development Grants |
January 28, 2009
August 26, 2009 |
September 2009
April 2010 |
America's
Media Makers: Production Grants |
January 28, 2009
August 26, 2009 |
September 2009
April 2010 |
Challenge
Grants |
May 5, 2009
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Collaborative Research Grants |
November 5, 2008
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July 2009
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DFG/NEH Bilateral Symposia and Workshops
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November 4, 2008
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May 2009
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DFG/NEH Joint Digitization Projects
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October 15, 2008
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July 2009
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Digging into Data Challenge: Requests for Proposals |
March 15, 2009 (Letter of intent) July 15, 2009 (Application deadline)
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December 2009 |
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants |
April 8, 2009
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September 2009
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Documenting Endangered Languages |
September 15, 2008 |
May 2009 |
Enduring Questions:
Pilot Course Grants |
November 13, 2008 |
July 2009 |
Faculty Research Awards for Historically Black and Tribal Colleges and Universities and Institutions with High Hispanic Enrollment |
May 5, 2009 |
January 2010 |
Family and Youth Programs |
January 28, 2009
August 26, 2009 |
September 2009
April 2010 |
Fellowship
Programs at Independent Research Institutions |
August 20, 2009 |
July 2010 |
Fellowships |
May 5, 2009 |
January 2010 |
Fellowships at Digital Humanities Centers |
September 15, 2009 |
June 2010 |
Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan |
May 5, 2009 |
January 2010 |
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources |
July 15, 2009 |
May 2010 |
Humanities Initiatives at Institutions with High Hispanic Enrollment
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January 15, 2009 |
July 2009 |
Humanities
Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
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January 15, 2009 |
July 2009 |
Humanities
Initiatives at Tribal Colleges and Universities
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January 15, 2009 |
July 2009 |
Institutes
for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities |
February 18, 2009 |
July 2009 |
Interpreting
America's Historic Places: Implementation Grants |
January 28, 2009
August 26, 2009 |
September 2009
April 2010 |
Interpreting
America's Historic Places:
Planning Grants |
January 28, 2009
August 26, 2009 |
September 2009
April 2010 |
JISC/NEH
Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants |
March 26, 2009 |
September 2009 |
Landmarks
of American History and Culture: Workshops for Community College
Faculty |
March 17, 2009 |
Summer 2010 |
Landmarks
of American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers
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March 17, 2009 |
Summer 2010 |
National
Digital Newspaper Program: Request for Proposals |
November 4, 2008
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July 2009
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NEH/CNR Fellowships for Research on Italian Cultural Heritage |
May 5, 2009 |
January 2010 |
NEH/DOE Humanities High Performance Computing Program |
July 15, 2008 |
January 2009 |
Picturing
America |
November 14, 2008 |
March 2009 |
Picturing
America School Collaboration Projects |
October 1, 2008 |
April 2009 |
Preservation
and Access Education and Training |
July 1, 2009 |
January 2010 |
Preservation and Access Research and Development
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July 30, 2009
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May 2010
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Preservation
Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions |
May 14, 2009 |
January 2010 |
Rediscovering
Afghanistan |
All deadlines |
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Save
America's Treasures (administered by the National Park Service) |
May 22, 2009
May 22, 2009 |
Early 2010 |
Scholarly
Editions Grants |
November 5, 2008
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July 2009
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Small Grants to Libraries: Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War |
January 30, 2009 |
July 2009 |
Summer
Seminars and Institutes |
March 3, 2009 |
Summer 2010 |
Summer
Stipends |
October 1, 2009 |
May 2010 |
Teaching Development Fellowships |
October 1, 2008 |
June 2009 |
We the People Bookshelf on "Picturing America" |
January 30, 2009 |
May 2009 |
We
the People Challenge Grants in United States History, Institutions
and Culture |
February 3, 2009 |
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We
the People Project Grants for State Humanities Councils
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March 17, 2009
May 5, 2009 |
July 2009
September 2009 |
We
the People Program |
All program deadlines |
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