Opportunity Information: Apply for 20180809 CHA
The Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants program, administered by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), is designed to strengthen the long-term foundation of humanities work by helping organizations build durable infrastructure and expand institutional capacity. The core idea behind this opportunity is sustainability: awards are meant to help recipients secure stable, ongoing support for essential humanities functions while also improving the ability to preserve, protect, and provide access to high-value humanities resources. Rather than funding short-lived projects, these grants emphasize investments that keep paying off over time, either by generating future income or by improving facilities, systems, and tools that underpin humanities programming and stewardship.
A defining feature of the program is its “challenge grant” structure, meaning NEH funds are provided as matching funds tied to required nonfederal contributions (certified gifts). Recipients can use the combined federal and nonfederal funds to build humanities capacity through a restricted, short-term endowment or another investment fund, including a spend-down fund, with the goal of producing expendable earnings that can support core activities into the future. This approach is intended to help institutions develop a reliable stream of support for ongoing operations and program enhancements, not just cover immediate costs. Importantly, NEH expects these funds to add to and strengthen what an institution can do, not simply replace dollars that are already being spent.
The program supports a broad range of capacity-building activities tied to humanities collections and infrastructure. Eligible work includes documenting cultural heritage materials that are lost or imperiled, preserving and conserving humanities materials, and sustaining digital scholarly infrastructure. It can also cover tangible investments such as purchasing equipment and software, as well as major facility-related efforts like the design, purchase, construction, restoration, or renovation of spaces needed for humanities activities and for sharing or caring for collections. The common thread across these categories is long-term benefit: applicants must be able to show that the proposed expenditures will strengthen humanities work in a lasting way for both the institution and, more broadly, the public and the field.
Eligibility is intentionally wide to accommodate the diverse ecosystem that supports humanities in the United States. Applicants may include public and private institutions of higher education, museums, public libraries, research institutions, historical societies and historic sites, scholarly associations, state humanities councils, and other public or nonprofit humanities organizations. Government entities at multiple levels are listed as eligible as well, including state, county, city or township, and special district governments, along with federally recognized Native American tribal governments. Nonprofits must generally hold 501(c)(3) status if applying as nonprofit entities. Collaborative projects that involve multiple institutions are allowed, but NEH requires that one organization serve as the lead institution and submit the application as the formal applicant of record.
The opportunity is categorized as a discretionary grant under the humanities funding activity area (CFDA/Assistance Listing number 45.130). The listed award ceiling is $750,000. The source data provided also includes an original closing date of August 9, 2018, and a creation date of June 8, 2018. While those dates are specific to the referenced posting, the program description highlights general priorities and rules that are central to how NEH frames these challenge grants: projects should be grounded in strategic planning, should create lasting improvements, and should demonstrate how the funds will enhance humanities activities for the long term. Up to 10 percent of total grant funds (counting both the federal matching funds and the certified gifts) may be used for fundraising costs during the project period, recognizing that assembling the required match can be a significant undertaking.Apply for 20180809 CHA
- The National Endowment for the Humanities in the humanities sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.130.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2018-06-08.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2018-08-09. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $750,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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