AGENCY: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

PROGRAM: America’s Media Makers

OBJECTIVES: This program provides funding to support media projects that explore significant events, figures, or developments in the humanities and offer creative and new approaches to humanities content. America’s Media Makers projects promote active exploration and engagement for broad public audiences in history, literature, archaeology, art history, comparative religion, philosophy, and other fields of the humanities. NEH supports the development of humanities content and interactivity that excites, informs, and stirs thoughtful reflection and urges applicants to consider more than one format for presenting humanities ideas to the public. Grants for America’s Media Makers should enable greater audience engagement with the humanities, encourage dialogue and discussion, and foster discovery-based learning across the age spectrum. NEH offers two categories of grants for media projects:

Development Grants - enable media producers to collaborate with scholars to develop the humanities content and format and to prepare programs for production. The product of development grants should be the refinement of the humanities ideas, a script, or a design document for (or a prototype of) digital media components or projects. Development grant products may also result in a detailed plan for outreach and public engagement in collaboration with partner organizations.

Production Grants - support the preparation of a program for distribution. Applicants must submit a script for a radio or television program or a prototype or storyboard for a digital media project that demonstrates a solid command of the humanities ideas and scholarship about the subject.

DEADLINE: August 26, 2009

FUNDING INFORMATION: The NEH normally awards between $40,000 and $75,000 for development projects over a period of six to twelve months. Awards for production grants may range from $100,000 to $800,000 over a period of one to three years.

AGENCY CONTACT:
Division of Public Programs
National Endowment for the Humanities
Room 426
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20506
202-606-8269
Email: publicpgms@neh.gov 
Web: Development: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/AmMediaMakers_development.html;
Production: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/AmMediaMakers_production.html

REMARKS: Applications may be submitted in hard copy or electronically using the Grants.gov system. Instructions and forms are available on the Grants.Gov website (http://www.grants.gov). Additional information about Grants.gov for BU Investigators can be obtained on the OSP website at:http://www.bu.edu/osp/electronic/index.html. Please contact the OSP Assistant Director assigned to your school or department as soon as possible to coordinate submission through the Grants.gov system.