Opportunity Information: Apply for 20170720 PW
The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR) program is a discretionary grant opportunity from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) designed to strengthen the core infrastructure that makes humanities scholarship, teaching, and public programming possible. It focuses on the real-world work that libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations do every day to care for, preserve, and share humanities materials. In practical terms, the program supports projects that extend the usable life of important collections and broaden public and scholarly access to the information and cultural value contained in them, often by using digital methods to improve discovery and availability.
HCRR is aimed at collections that are central to understanding history, culture, language, and society, including books and manuscripts, photographs, audio recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic materials, art and other forms of material culture, and born-digital or digitized objects. The program recognizes that these resources are widely distributed across institutions nationwide and that many collections face preservation risks or access barriers. Funding is intended to help organizations take concrete steps to stabilize materials, reduce deterioration, and make collections easier to find, interpret, and use, whether through improved description, digitization, or other access-oriented work.
In addition to collections-focused work, HCRR also funds the creation of reference resources that help people navigate and use cultural materials more effectively. These reference outputs can range from tools that deliver basic facts quickly to more advanced resources that organize, synthesize, and codify knowledge for deeper research. The underlying idea is that strong reference resources multiply the value of collections by making them more legible and usable for researchers, educators, and the public.
The program offers two main award tracks. One track supports implementation projects, meaning applicants are ready to carry out a defined set of activities that directly preserve collections and/or expand access and usability. The second track supports planning, assessment, and pilot efforts, referred to as HCRR Foundations grants. This Foundations category is geared toward organizations that need to evaluate needs, test methods, refine workflows, or otherwise lay the groundwork before moving into full implementation. Together, these tracks cover both early-stage preparation and later-stage execution, allowing institutions to enter at the point that best matches their readiness.
Eligible applicants include a broad mix of public and nonprofit organizations: state, county, and 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 when applying under the nonprofit category). The funding activity category is humanities, and the program is listed under CFDA number 45.149. The opportunity uses the grant funding instrument type.
For the specific opportunity instance provided, the funding opportunity title is Humanities Collections and Reference Resources, with funding opportunity number 20170720 PW. The agency is the National Endowment for the Humanities. The original closing date was July 20, 2017, and the opportunity was created on May 16, 2017. The maximum award amount (award ceiling) listed is $350,000.Apply for 20170720 PW
- The National Endowment for the Humanities in the humanities sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Humanities Collections and Reference Resources" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.149.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2017-05-16.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-07-20. (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 $350,000.00 in funding.
- 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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