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NEH Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges Would your faculty like to strengthen humanities programs and/or humanistic approaches to non-humanities programs? This project must be organized around a core theme or set of topics. Goal of grant: Support community colleges in helping students achieve career paths by fostering the humanities Award: $100,000 Deadline: June 26, 2018 […]

College presidents, the federal government won’t fund your portrait, I’m afraid. But they might give your visual and performing artists $10K – $100K. NEA’s Art Works is due in July. Wissen listens to your needs, describes the details, and writes the grant for you. natashagoldman.com  

Revised guidelines posted today!

*NEW* NEH Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants Do you have humanities collections or programs that need new buildings, software, or renovation? Perhaps a museum, a library, or an architectural gem with historical significance that needs renovation? If your institution is already doing fundraising for major programs to support the humanities–or plans to do such […]

DOJ Releases Grant for Reducing Sexual Violence on Campus. Revised guidelines, due 3/7, can be found here. In the wake of #MeToo, this is a great year to get your campus faculty, staff, and students excited about and committed to reducing sexual violence on campus.This grant allows a campus to hire a Project Director to […]

Today Betsy Devos made it clear that she is listening to the accused in cases of rape on campus. What will this mean for the Dept. of Justice/OVW grant for “Reducing Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking on Campus”)? My guess is that we are going to see a new goal in the […]