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NEH Public Humanities Projects Grants for Exhibitions, Historic Places, and Public Programs

The National Endowment for the Humanities is offering grants to bring humanities scholarship to public audiences through exhibitions, historic-place interpretation, and public programs. - Government buyer: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Division of Lifelong Learning. - Opportunity: Public Humanities Projects grants support exhibitions, historic-place interpretation, and public lectures and discussion forums; no products are being purchased. - Funding and scale: NEH anticipates approximately 20 grants from about $6 million in program funding. Matching funds are not required. - Grant categories: Planning awards for exhibition and historic-place projects may be up to $75,000; implementation awards may be up to $500,000, with single-site temporary exhibitions capped at $100,000. Chairman’s Special Awards for exceptional implementation projects may be up to $2 million. - Supported work: Planning may include refining content and interpretation, consultation, preliminary design, testing, evaluation, and curatorial research. Implementation grants support exhibitions, historic places, and public lectures or discussion forums. - Priority topics: Western civilization and America’s place in it; significant works of literature, history, philosophy, and theology and their relevance to current questions; the American Revolution’s 250th anniversary; civic education; civil discourse; cultural literacy; and close reading. Public lectures and discussion forums must address a priority topic. - Eligible applicants: Qualifying 501(c)(3) nonprofits, accredited public or nonprofit higher-education institutions, state and local governments and their agencies, and federally recognized Native American tribal governments. - Vendors and OEMs: No commercial vendors or manufacturers are identified.

Description

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Lifelong Learning is accepting applications for grants supporting public humanities projects in exhibitions, historic site interpretations, and public lectures and discussions. Projects should bring humanities ideas and scholarship to life; for 2027, the NEH highlights topics including Western civilization, the American Revolution’s 250th anniversary, civic education, civil discourse, cultural literacy, and close reading. Public Lectures and Discussion Forums must address one of the listed interest areas. Planning awards are up to $75,000 and implementation awards are generally up to $500,000, with up to $2,000,000 available for Chairman’s Special Awards; matching funds are not required.

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