NEH Next Generation Humanities PhD grants seek to address the disparities between graduate student expectations for a career in academia and eventual career outcomes and to promote greater integration of the humanities in the public sphere. These grants will allow colleges and universities to plan for major changes to PhD programs and then implement programmatic initiatives that will transform understanding of what it means to be a humanities scholar.
Humanities Access Grants offer matching grants toward term endowments for programming at cultural institutions that broadens access to excellent humanities content for underserved groups. Eligible organizations include public libraries, museums, historical societies, community colleges, historically black colleges and universities, tribal colleges, and Hispanic-serving institutions.
It’s unlikely Mannie Jackson dreamed, while attending racially-segregated schools in 1950s downstate Illinois, that one day he would be involved in an educational endowment designed to encourage humanities exploration.
When looking for a new home to replace its cramped office condo in a suburban strip mall far from downtown Austin, Humanities Texas director, Michael Gillette, liked the location of the Texas Oil Company building, just blocks from the state capitoI. But while it had abundant space, access to parking, and a fair price, it was ugly: its cheap stucco façade was only surpassed by a bland interior.
North Haven is a small island community off the coast of Maine, with a history dating back to 1762 when the first permanent settler arrived. Thanks to a $60,000 NEH challenge grant, matched by $180,000 in nonfederal donations, North Haven was able to build an archives building to safeguard the community’s historical documents.
WASHINGTON (December 8, 2014) — The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Office of Challenge Grants announced 15 awards to a diverse group of humanities projects, from endowments for curatorial and librarian staff and humanities programming to construction of new facilities for museums and cultural institutions.
WASHINGTON (December 14, 2015) — The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $21.8 million in grants for 295 humanities projects, including 15 new grants from the Office of Challenge Grants.
The National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Challenge Grants made three offers to institutions following the November 2012 meeting of the National Council on the Humanities.
