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Challenge Grant Offers, Fall 2012

The National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Challenge Grants made fifteen grant offers to institutions following the November 2012 meeting of the National Council on the Humanities.

Posted: December 5, 2012

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Call for Proposals: Challenge Grants for Two-year Colleges

The National Endowment for the Humanities invites two-year colleges to apply in a special Challenge Grant competition to strengthen their long-term humanities programs and resources. Two-year colleges are major educational assets that have too often been overlooked, even though over half of students in post-secondary education attend two-year institutions.

Posted: November 28, 2012
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Challenge Grant Offers, Summer 2012

The National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Challenge Grants made six grant offers to two-year colleges following the July 2012 meeting of the National Council on the Humanities.

Posted: September 8, 2012
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Challenge Grant Offers, Fall 2011

The National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Challenge Grants made twenty-one grant offers following the fall meeting of the National Council on the Humanities:

Posted: January 19, 2012

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Guiding Principles for Independent Status

Whether an affiliated or consortial organization may apply for a challenge grant, independent of its parent or member organizations, depends on three criteria for assessing the autonomy of the appl

Posted: January 19, 2012

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How Challenge Grants Differ from Other NEH Awards

The Challenge Grants program, like others at NEH, supports scholarship, education, public programming, and preservation in the humanities, but it differs from other NEH programs in how humanities activities are supported, including a substantial matching-funds requirement.

Posted: June 30, 2011