Collections Stewardship
NEH grants support planning or implementation projects that preserve, digitize, describe, or improve access to humanities collections, and may also fund preservation services or collections-stewardship education and training.
⚑ Program funds planning and implementation, not general operating support. · Includes both physical and digital collections; digitization and digital resource enhancement are eligible. · Award ceiling is $500,000.
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 50 partial | technical depth: substantial; funds other (capped) |
| IPPRA | 23 weak | outside portfolio topics; social/behavioral work is minor; funds other — not a research fit |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 10 none | deep-tech content; no commercialization signal |
Description
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Collections & Infrastructure is accepting applications for Collections Stewardship, a program to advance the preservation and availability of physical and digital collections important for research, teaching, and public engagement in the humanities. Planning and implementation projects may include conservation and preservation; digitization and description; enhancement of long-standing digital resources in the humanities; and preservation services or education and training for students and professionals in collections stewardship.
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View on Grants.gov → CONTACT: National Endowment for the Humanities <collections@neh.gov>
Proposal brief SEE AN EXAMPLE →
A one-page internal memo: fit assessment, submission requirements, document scaffold, and next steps dated back from the deadline — tailored to your project idea if you add one.
Proposal shell · Federal (generic) conventions SEE A FEDERAL EXAMPLE →
Funder-faithful document skeletons — Federal (generic)'s document set with section headings, page limits, reviewer guidance, and writing prompts; add a project idea to get [DRAFT] starter bullets. Download as .md for Word or Overleaf.