Funding

Discipline(s): Humanities

This program supports projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences through in-person programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. Public Humanities Projects supports projects in three program categories and at two funding levels.

Public Humanities Projects awards support projects that are intended to reach broad and diverse public audiences in non-classroom settings in the United States. Projects should engage with ideas that are accessible to the general public and employ appealing interpretive formats.

Regardless of proposed activity, NEH encourages applicants to explore humanities ideas through multiple formats. Projects may include complementary components: for example, a museum exhibition might be accompanied by a website or mobile app.

Project topics may be international, national, regional, or local in focus, but locally focused projects should address topics that are of regional or national relevance by drawing connections to broad themes or historical questions. Projects that do not address issues of concern to wider regional or national audiences might consider local sources of funding, such as their state humanities councils. Award amounts offered to successful applicants will reflect the project’s scope and the size of its expected audiences.

Planning grants are up to 24 months with a total budget request not to exceed $75,000. Implementation grants are 12-48 months in length and have budgets in the range of $50,000-$400,000.

Full proposals are due January 11, 2023.

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