NEH Funding Opportunities

This article provides an overview of the funding opportunities and proposals offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). It discusses the different programs available, such as Humanities Connection Planning Grants and Awards for Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and provides guidelines for preparing a successful proposal. The article also highlights the importance of these funding opportunities in strengthening the humanities curriculum and promoting research in the field.

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Introduction
The National Endowment for the Humanities was created in 1965 and is an independent
federal agency. All over the United States, NEH is the top most funders of humanities
program(www.neh.gov, 2019). The charter of NEH states “humanities as a study and
interpretation of all the subjects that includes language, both classical and modern; history;
linguistics; literature; philosophy; archaeology; ethics; criticism; comparative religion and theory
of the arts” moreover, all such aspects related to social science with humanistic content and
further employ humanistic method (Arts, 2019). The main mission of NEH is to enhance
progress and provide scholarship in the subjects of humanities.
The fellowship awards from National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
arecompetitive awards that are generally granted to all those scholars, who are pursuing projects
that require exceptional research. NEH informs all the Congressional offices regarding
thefunding and grants that has been awarded to the respective institutions.Fellowship provides
recipients extra time to produce books, e-books, peer-reviewed articles, digital materials and
conducting research (Benneworth, Gulbrandsen & Hazelkorn, 2016). NEH also highlights the
main aspects that how their constituencies affect their institutions with their NEH funds.
There are various programs that an applicant can apply to obtain fund for NEH curriculum,
which are as follows:
1. Humanities Connection Planning Grants:
The Humanities Connection funding program pursues in expanding the humanities
curriculum in undergraduate educational institutions, at all the two- and four- year colleges.

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They support creative curricular approaches that would help in developing fruitful partnership
among the faculties of humanities and their counterparts. It would result in motivating and
creating latest integrative opportunities for the students to learn more efficiently. This maximum
amount of funds given to an institution is $35,000("Humanities Connections Planning Grants",
2019). The grant is open for all kinds of institutions and organizations. The expected outcome
from this funding can be ascertained in all kinds of curricular materials, article, report, course,
teaching resources and faculty development. The grant period required for performance may
include 12 months.This grant is funded at two major levels, namely, Planning and
Implementation (Klein, 2015).
2. Awards for Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities:
The program helps in strengthening the humanities curriculum and teaching methods by
creating new humanities related courses, resources programs or by developing the existing ones.
The maximum award provided is up to $5,000 per month and is open for all individuals and
organizations("Awards for Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities", 2019). The
outcome of this funding program results in the enhancement of curriculum, digital marketing,
publications, teaching resources, faculty development, and community partnership. The
performance period for such program usually ranges from three to twelve months.
3. Awards for Humanities Initiativesat Tribal Colleges and Universities:
This Humanities initiative program provides an award up to $5,000 for the faculty. The time
period for the performances can be part-time, full-time or both. The initiative is taken to bring
changes in curriculum, development of faculty, community partnership and cultural preservation.

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The program period may vary from 2 to 12 months. Each of the humanities project must be made
under a single topic or themes that should be included from the various areas of humanities. The
subjects include philosophy, literature, history, writing skills and compositions. Basic research is
related to the improvements of the entire existing curriculum. Furthermore, the funding can be
used for the research fulfilling interests & goals for the community and institutions (Thelwall et
al., 2016).
NEH Proposal
The application process for Grants under NEH is highly competitive. A demanding peer
review system is applied for determining the most deserving application for federal support. The
curriculum framework needs to have an effective humanities component to shine out among all
the competitors. As NEH does not support any fund if the project is not linked to some topic or
area in humanities. While writing the narrative for the project, it is important to carefully outline
the main content of the proposal.
For various grant programs, the preliminary drafts of the narrative must be submitted within the
six weeks prior to deadline. The narrative must be within three single spaced pages (Sivertsen,
2016). A bibliography within a single space page and the resume of the individual must be
provided within two single spaced pages. As the proposal is reviewed, NEH staff member can
alert if the proposal is eligible or not for the funding.
Guidelines required for the proposal preparation as an institution are as follows:

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 The College is to belisted with the grants.gov, while the Dean of the institution or the
college CFR personnel should be designated as AOR or the Authorized Organizational
Representative.
 The CFR personnel of the college submit application in respect of the Dean of the college
(Dee Menning, 2019).
On the other hand, if the grant is provided to an individual, than he or she can get themselves
registered on the Grant.gov, which is the page for applicant registration. Before doing so, the
CFR personnel must be informed by the individual. The grants provided at Carleton are most
commonly in the form of a fellowship or a summer stipend(Dee Menning, 2019). The applicants
eligible for NEH Fellowship should submit a writing sample for the proposed project. Moreover
the scholars can also solicit a recommendation letter from efficient expert in the field related to
their proposal project.
The evaluation of the proposal is done by senior experts. Therefore, good examples are to be
included while writing the proposal. The reviewers actually contextualize the topic, hence the
information provided must be intellectual in nature. According to Mahon, (2018) if the faculty
possesses special language skills beneficial for conducting the research, then their expertise must
be showcased. The proposal is to be presented in such a manner that it should be well qualified
without any doubt.
Recommendation
The curriculum framework is to be highly benefitted by the funding opportunities mentioned
above as it helps in the development of humanities resources. Humanities based curricular is

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created that infuses humanities learning into professional learning. It would help in creating
immense opportunities for the scholars and faculty members to study together. Moreover, digital
humanities projects can be further initiated for curriculum development.
The funding opportunities would support collaborative and partnership projects in the
humanities. Furthermore by initiating a curriculum related to English Language would help in
strengthening the education system of American Public School. The funding opportunity can
bridge programs for non-traditional students or first-generation students and secondary students
of the American Public School.Moreover, the project would help in nurturing the intellectual
skills and efficient habits of all such minds that are cultivated by humanities.
Conclusion
In the recent times, NEH aims to fulfill its mission by nurturing the humanities curriculum
and supporting research work in humanities to each and every American. With the help of NEH
programs the study and teaching of humanities would be strengthen to a great extent. Among all
the projects that NEH supports,the programs and awards for faculty should be continuous,
without any break from the project during the whole tenure. Hence, it can be concluded that
NEH offers a wide variety of grant programs to all the individuals as well as institutions to
promote humanities by performing highest quality work. The curriculum framework would
create learning opportunities for the students of American Public School and encourage them in
future.

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