NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up grants available

The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) invite applications to the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program. This program is designed to encourage innovations in the digital humanities. By awarding relatively low-dollar grants during the planning stages, the goal is to identify projects that are particularly innovative and have the potential to make a positive impact on the humanities. By having IMLS co-sponsor this grant opportunity with the NEH, our hope is to spark more collaborations among scholars, librarians, museum officials, and computer scientists.

Deadlines: October 16, 2007 & April 2, 2008

The guidelines are available here:

http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html


There is one major change in this grant opportunity from last year to keep in mind. Based on feedback from the digital humanities community, we now have two levels of funding available:

LEVEL I START-UP: Awards of $5000 - $25,000. These are small grants designed to fund brainstorming sessions, basic research, workshops, early alpha-level prototypes, and initial planning.

LEVEL II START-UP: Awards of $25,001 - $50,000. These are larger grants which can be used for more fully-formed projects that are ready to start the first stage of implementation or the creation of working prototypes.


For more information, please contact us at: dhi@neh.gov

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