Opportunity Information: Apply for 20200515 CHA
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Office of Challenge Grants, is offering the Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants program (Funding Opportunity Number 20200515-CHA). This is a discretionary grant opportunity in the humanities (CFDA 45.130) aimed at strengthening the long-term capacity of institutions that support humanities work. The program is designed to help organizations make significant, lasting improvements to the physical and digital foundations that enable humanities research, teaching, preservation, and public engagement.
The opportunity funds two main types of projects. The first is Capital Projects, which can cover major facility-related efforts tied to humanities activities. This includes the design, purchase, construction, restoration, or renovation of buildings and spaces used for humanities work, such as archives, libraries, museums, cultural centers, or academic facilities. The emphasis is on infrastructure that meaningfully improves an institution's ability to carry out humanities programming and stewardship over time, rather than short-term upgrades without a clear long-range purpose.
The second track is Digital Infrastructure, focused on sustaining and improving existing digital scholarly projects and platforms. Instead of funding brand-new digital projects from scratch, the priority here is maintenance, modernization, and long-term sustainability of resources that already exist and serve humanities audiences. This can include efforts like updating outdated systems, improving reliability and access, strengthening preservation and hosting approaches, and ensuring that established digital initiatives remain usable and valuable into the future. Across both tracks, applicants are expected to demonstrate that the proposed expenditures will deliver durable benefits to their institution and contribute to the humanities more broadly, not just to a single program or temporary need.
Eligible applicants include a wide range of public and nonprofit entities: state, county, city or township governments; special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; and nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (excluding higher education institutions where applicable). NEH anticipates making about 30 awards under this opportunity, with a maximum award amount (award ceiling) of $750,000 per grant. The funding instrument is a grant, and the opportunity was originally posted with a creation date of March 10, 2020, and an original application deadline of May 15, 2020.Apply for 20200515 CHA
- The National Endowment for the Humanities in the humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.130.
- This funding opportunity was created on Mar 10, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 15, 2020. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $750,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 30 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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