Grant - Hometown Helper

General Mills Sales, Inc. and Hamburger Helper are searching for people in your hometown that are raising funds to help the community. Hamburger Helper will fund initiatives to help hometowns across America with monetary grants of up to $15,000.00 per month from September 1, 2006 through May 31, 2007. All requests for funding must be sponsored by a municipal or civic organization or public school. Hamburger Helper will give funds directly to the public school or 501(c) (4) entity, such as civic leagues and social welfare organizations (see list of qualifying organizations below), that sponsors an application for funding. Visit http://www.myhometownhelper.com/ for more information. No Deadline - continual funding

Grant - Programming Grants to Accompany NEH on the Road Exhibitions - CFDA Number: 45.164

These grants support ancillary public humanities programs to accompany NEH on the Road traveling exhibitions. Typical formats involve lectures, reading and discussion programs, film discussion programs, Chautauqua presentations by scholars, family programs, exhibition tours, or other appropriate formats for reaching the general public. Successful applicants will be awarded a grant of $1,000 in outright funds. The grant period should not exceed three months, including the period of time in which the exhibition is actually on display at the host institution. Deadline October 31, 2007 (link to full announcement)

Grant - Archives - Basic Projects

The Commission is particularly concerned that some historical collections in archives and repositories are difficult for most researchers to find because they are not processed or represented in national catalogs. It hopes to encourage repositories to reveal these "hidden collections" by concentrating on materials in their "backlogs." In addition, the NHPRC wishes to continue support for planning for archives, collection development, and appropriate preservation. As a result, the Commission seeks proposals for projects that support backlog processing and collections cataloging, phased preservation, and/or collections development. Proposed projects must employ the best and most cost-effective archival methods. Activities included under Basic Projects may be any one or combination of the following: 1. Basic Processing, 2. Preservation Planning, 3. Collections Development, and 4. Establishing Archives. Although projects focused exclusively on professional development are not eligible in this grant category, we strongly encourage each application to include professional development components necessary for the success of the project. Deadline: October 1, 2007 (link to full announcement)

Grant - Save America's Treasures - currently closed but will probably be re-posted

Save America’s Treasures grants are available for preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant intellectual and cultural artifacts and collections and on nationally significant historic properties. Grants are awarded through a competitive process and require a dollar-for-dollar, non-Federal match, which can be cash, donated services, or use of equipment. The grant and the non-Federal match must be expended during the grant period, generally 2 to 3 years, to execute the project. The minimum grant request for collections projects is $25,000 Federal share; the minimum grant request for historic property projects is $125,000 Federal share. The maximum grant request for all projects is $700,000 Federal share. The Save America’s Treasures Grants Selection Panel may, at its discretion, award less than the minimum grant request. A list of projects funded in 2006 begins on page 6. This list gives examples of the activities supported by these grants. (link to full announcement)

Grant - Interpreting America's Historic Places: Planning Grants - CFDA Number: 45.164 - currently closed but will be reopened in Summer 2007

Planning grants for Interpreting America's Historic Places may be used by organizations to develop in detail the content, interpretive approach, and specific components of projects prior to implementation. Applicants for planning grants should already have defined the appropriate humanities content and themes in consultation with scholars and programming advisers. About Interpreting America's Historic Places Planning grants are being offered as part of the Interpreting America's Historic Places program, which supports public humanities projects that exploit the evocative power of historic places to address themes and issues central to American history and culture. Projects may interpret a single historic site or house, a series of sites, an entire neighborhood, a town or community, or a larger geographical region. The place taken as a whole must be significant to American history and the project must convey its historic importance to visitors. The goals of Interpreting America's Historic Places are to: * enhance lifelong learning in American history by connecting nationally significant events, people, ideas, stories and traditions with specific places; * foster the development of interpretive programs for the public that address central events, themes and issues in American history; and * encourage consultation with humanities scholars and history organizations in the development of heritage tourism destinations. (link to full announcement)

American Masterpieces: Visual Arts Touring - CFDA No. 45.024

American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius is a major initiative to acquaint Americans with the best of their cultural and artistic legacy. Through American Masterpieces, the National Endowment for the Arts will sponsor performances, exhibitions, tours, and educational programs across all art forms that will reach large and small communities in all 50 states. This component of American Masterpieces will celebrate the extraordinary and rich evolution of the visual arts in the United States. Through the creation and touring of major exhibitions, art of the highest quality -- that otherwise would not be available -- will be experienced by Americans in communities across the nation. Exhibitions may focus on schools, movements, traditions, subject areas, and themes that include but are not limited to: The Hudson River School, American Impressionism, Native American Art, American Masterworks from Unique Collections including private collections, Aspects of American Art Post-1945 to the Present, Art of the W.P.A., Latino Art, The Portrait in America, American Naive Art, African American Art, American Photographers and Photography, American Decorative Arts, The Art of the American West, Industrial Design, Architecture, Costume and Textiles, and Folk Arts. The tour of an existing exhibition is eligible. Exhibitions must be: 1) Scaled so they can be shown in small and mid-sized exhibiting institutions. 2) Shown for a period of 8-12 weeks at 2-5 venues which may include the organizing institution. The number of venues should be appropriate to the nature of the works on view. 3) Accompanied by related educational and interpretive components including brochures and catalogues. Educational material for children and youth must ensure the application of national or state arts education standards. 6) Substantial efforts should be made to reach underserved communities. Deadline September 21, 2007. (link to full announcement)

America's Historical and Cultural Organizations Planning Grants - CFDA No. 45.164

Public humanities programs promote the experience of lifelong learning in American and world history, literature, comparative religion, philosophy, and other fields of the humanities for broad public audiences. They invite reflection and conversation about important humanities ideas and questions. They offer new insights into familiar subjects and introduce us to unfamiliar ideas. NEH encourages projects that make creative use of new and emerging technologies to enhance the content of programs or to engage audiences in new ways. Planning grants can be used to plan, refine, and develop the content and interpretive approach of programs that reach broad audiences, including exhibitions, interpretation at historic sites and houses, reading and discussion programs, Web-based or other digital projects, or other public programs that encourage discussion, analysis, and reflection in the humanities. Applicants should have already conducted preliminary consultation with scholars to help shape the humanities content of the project and with other programming advisers appropriate to the project’s format. NEH encourages complex projects that reach exceptionally large audiences in any of the following ways: * Creating collaborations among institutions, especially non-traditional partners, to expand the project's scope and reach. Projects that take advantage of statewide or regional associations (e.g., library networks, museum associations, state humanities councils, etc.) to reach broadly are welcome. * Envisioning diverse and wide-ranging program formats that expand or deepen the audience's engagement with the humanities by extending the project’s scope to larger audiences or engaging the same audience in different ways. Conducting programming at large number of venues across the nation. * Devising a Chairman’s Special Award exhibition. These are traveling, large-scale exhibitions of national visibility that would have exceptional potential for attracting large numbers of visitors. These exhibitions should show unusual promise in terms of disseminating important ideas in the humanities in ways that would be broadly appealing to the public. They should also include a strong companion Web site or other creative digital component that significantly enhances the humanities content of the project or improves its dissemination to audiences. Deadline September 05, 2007 (link to full announcement)