AGENCY: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

PROGRAM: America's Media Makers

OBJECTIVES: This program provides funding to support media projects that explore stories, ideas, and beliefs that deepen our understanding of our lives and our world. NEH supports projects that encourage dialogue, discussion, civic engagement and foster learning among people of all ages. 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: January 13, 2010

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. Chairman’s Special Awards of up to $1 million are available for large-scale, collaborative, multiformat projects that will reach broad portions of the public.

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 must be submitted 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/pdf/Grantsgovinfo.pdf. Please contact the OSP Assistant Director assigned to your school or department as soon as possible to coordinate submission through the Grants.gov system.