Recent Grants

Digital Humanities Advancement Grant

 
  • Grants Office Grantwriting service fee is currently unavailable for this grant
    Get more information on grantwriting

    CFDA#

    45.169
     

    Funder Type

    Federal Government

    IT Classification

    B - Readily funds technology as part of an award

    Authority

    National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

    Summary

    Digital Humanities Advancement Grants (DHAG) support digital projects throughout their life cycles, from early start-up phases through implementation and long-term sustainability. Experimentation, reuse, and extensibility are hallmarks of this grant category, leading to innovative work that can scale to enhance research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities.


    This program is offered twice per year. Proposals are welcome for digital initiatives in any area of the humanities.


    Through a special partnership, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) anticipates providing additional funding to this program to encourage innovative collaborations between museum or library professionals and humanities professionals to advance preservation of, access to, use of, and engagement with digital collections and services. Through this partnership, IMLS and NEH may jointly fund some DHAG projects that involve collaborations with museums and/or libraries.


    Digital Humanities Advancement Grants may involve:

    • creating or enhancing experimental, computationally-based methods, techniques, or infrastructure that contribute to the humanities;
    • pursuing scholarship that examines the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital culture and its impact on society; or
    • conducting evaluative studies that investigate the practices and the impact of digital scholarship on research, pedagogy, scholarly communication, and public engagement.

    Grants are available for early-stage planning, development, and implementation. Applicants must state in their narrative which funding level they seek. Applicants should carefully choose the funding level appropriate to the needs of the proposed project.

    Level I:

    • Level I awards (up to $75,000 and up to 24 months) support small research projects or early stages of larger projects, including activities such as:
      • developing a research agenda or strategy
      • identifying appropriate methods or technologies for new and existing digital humanities projects
      • convening planning sessions with stakeholders or conducting audience research to determine user needs and priorities
      • designing experimental alpha-level prototypes
      • facilitating convenings to address field-wide questions
    • Outcomes for Level I projects may include:
      • reports and position papers (especially for projects involving evaluative studies)
      • new consortia or partnerships
      • plans for future research and technical development, design documents, and/or data integration
      • articles, essays, books, edited volumes, or reports
      • testing and assessment reports from alpha-level prototypes

    Level II:

    • Level II awards (from $75,001 to $150,000 and up to 24 months) support projects that have completed an initial planning phase and are poised to scale up based on prior research and development with a well-defined work plan, including activities such as:
      • technical development and/or user experience design for beta-stage prototypes of open-source tools or software
      • data curation
      • meetings with advisory board members or collaborators
      • evaluation and refinement of the project's methods, workflows, or tools to teach humanities concepts or to support humanities research
      • development of virtual/in-person workshops or tutorials to disseminate project results
    • Outcomes for Level II projects may include:
      • release of add-ons, code libraries, or working prototypes of tools
      • implementation of new workflows through humanities-based case studies
      • training data or models
      • workshops, online tutorials, and other forms of documentation
      • publications or conference presentations to share project results

    Level III:

    • Level III awards (from $150,001 to $350,000 and up to 36 months) support the expansion of mature projects with an established user base and strong dissemination plans beyond the applicant institution. To apply for a Level III award, you must have completed a planning or prototyping phase. In addition, your application must demonstrate prior success, including documenting how many users or visitors your current project has or a summary of prior internal or external evaluations of your current project. Earlier phases of the project's development may or may not have been supported by NEH or other funders. Level III awards support activities such as:
      • implementation of technical plans and user experience design, including transformation of a prototype into a usable resource
      • testing with targeted user communities
      • code review and bug fixing
      • development of training materials and documentation to promote wide use of the project
      • preparation of presentations and publications to disseminate project results
      • preparation of data, software, or websites for future preservation
      • accessibility compliance review
    • Outcomes for Level III projects may include:
      • launch of the digital project
      • public release of final software, code, or datasets
      • publication and presentation of research and results
      • community engagement and outreach events, including workshops
      • documentation and tutorials in multiple formats
      • implementation of data management and sustainability plans

    Level III applicants may request up to $100,000 in federal matching funds (for a total award of up to $450,000) to leverage external funding.

     

    History of Funding

    Past funded projects may be found here: https://www.neh.gov/our-work/listing?f%5B0%5D=content_type%3Aproject&f%5B1%5D=our_work_division_office%3A346

    Additional Information

    Digital Humanities Advancement Grants may not be used for

    • projects that mainly involve digitization, unless the applicant is proposing an innovative method for digitization;
    • the creation or conversion of a scholarly journal (although the implementation of new modes of scholarly publication is permitted);
    • recurring maintenance costs that would support only the day-to-day operations of existing projects rather than substantive changes or upgrades;
    • recurring or established conferences or professional meetings;
    • acquisition of computer equipment or software in excess of 20 percent of the grant total;
    • promotion of a particular political, religious, or ideological point of view;
    • advocacy for a particular program of social or political action;
    • support of specific public policies or legislation;
    • lobbying; or
    • projects that fall outside of the humanities (including the creation or performance of art; creative writing, memoirs, and creative nonfiction; and empirically based social science research or policy studies).

    Contacts

    Office of Digital Humanities (ODH)

    Office of Digital Humanities (ODH)
    400 7th Street, SW
    Washington, DC 20506-0001
     

  • Eligibility Details

    Eligible applicants are:

    • Institutions of higher education (private and public)
    • U.S. nonprofit organizations with IRS tax-exempt status;
    • state and local governmental agencies; and
    • federally recognized Indian tribal governments.

    Deadline Details

    This program has two grant cycles in January and June. The last deadline is January 11, 2024. The next deadline is June 13, 2024. Similar deadlines are anticipated annually.

    Award Details

    The NEH awards approximately $2,200,000 per deadline, funding between 10-15 grants per deadline. Awards for Level I and Level II grants are for up to two years. Awards for Level III Grants are for up to three years. Digital Humanities Advancement Grants have three levels of funding:

    • Level I grants up to $75,000 in outright funding.
    • Level II grants range from $75,001 to $150,000 in outright funding.
    • Level III grants range from $150,001 to $350,000 in outright funding.

    Applicants for Level III grants can also request up to an additional $100,000 in matching funds specifically allocated toward their sustainability or data management plans. Cost sharing is not required for Level I and Level II projects. Level III projects that request a Sustainability Match must report the contributions raised to release NEH matching funds as cost sharing.

    Related Webcasts Use the links below to view the recorded playback of these webcasts



 

You have not selected any grants to Add


Please select at least one grant to continue.


Selections Added


The selected grant has been added to your .



  Okay  

Research Reports


One of the benefits of purchasing an UPstream® subscription is
generating professional research reports in Microsoft® Word or Adobe® PDF format
Generating research reports allows you to capture all the grant data as
well as a nice set of instructions on how to read these reports


Watchlists and Grant Progress


With an UPstream® subscription you can add grants to your
own personal Watchlist. By adding grants to your watchlist, you will
receive emails about updates to your grants, be able to track your
grant's progress from watching to awards, and can easily manage any
step in the process through simplified workflows.

Email this Grant


With an UPstream® subscription, you can email grant details, a research report,
and relevant links to yourself or others so that you never lose your
details again. Emailing grants is a great way to keep a copy of the
current details so that when you are ready to start seeking funding
you already know where to go