Grant programs offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities are administered by divisions and offices that work with prospective applicants, recruit and oversee peer-review panels, provide analysis of panel results to members of the National Council on the Humanities and the agency’s senior staff, conduct site visits of projects that have received NEH support, and represent NEH at regional, national, and international conferences in the humanities. Additional information about each of these divisions and offices is available via the links below.

• Division of Education Programs
• Division of Preservation and Access
• Division of Public Programs
• Division of Research Programs
• Federal/State Partnership
• Office of Challenge Grants
• Office of Digital Humanities

NEH grants support a wide range of humanities activities through different divisions and offices. To get a sense of these different activities, and the divisions and offices that sponsor them, consider some of the following possibilities.

If you are seeking to

• raise money to build the capacity of your home institution to support humanities activities, including enhancement of the infrastructure for the digital humanities, you should look at the programs offered by the Office of Challenge Grants;
• explore ways of applying digital technologies to the humanities, you should look at the programs offered by the Office of Digital Humanities, the Division of Education Programs, the Division of Preservation and Access, the Division of Public Programs, and the Division of Research Programs;
• enhance your classroom teaching by obtaining advanced training in humanities subjects, or to train teachers to enhance their classroom teaching of humanities subjects, you should look at the programs offered by the Division of Education Programs;
• preserve collections of and enhance access to humanities materials, you should look at the programs offered by the Division of Preservation and Access;
• provide advanced training in preservation methods and materials, you should look at the programs offered by the Division of Preservation and Access;
• develop a reference work or research tool, you should look at the programs offered by the Division of Preservation and Access and the Division of Research Programs;
• plan or implement an exhibition or interpretative program at a cultural institution, or to host a traveling exhibition at a library, you should look at the programs offered by the Division of Public Programs;
• develop or produce a radio or television broadcast or a digitally delivered program about a humanities subject, you should look at the programs offered by the Division of Public Programs;
• conduct research on a humanities subject, you should look at the programs offered by the Division of Research Programs;
• improve humanities teaching or conduct humanities research at a Historically Black College or University, an Institution with High Hispanic Enrollment, or a Tribal College or University, you should look at programs offered by the Division of Education Programs and the Division of Research Programs.