Grant and Funding Opportunities College of Arts and Letters 1 January 2015
Program: Student Submissions for Photography and Multimedia Competition Agency: Alexia Foundation Deadline: February 2, 2015 The Alexia Foundation provides educational opportunities and cash grants to help students produce bodies of work that share the Foundation s goals of promoting world peace and cultural understanding. Student applicants are encouraged to consider projects that explore cultural understanding in or near their local community. While the Foundation does not discourage proposals on topics outside the students region, no extra weight is given to these topics when determining winning Grant recipients. Rather, the Foundation believes applicants are more likely to complete a story closer to their school or home than one that requires travel. The Foundation welcomes proposals for still photography or multimedia projects. Students are encouraged to submit multimedia pieces with their grant applications. http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rfps/rfp5301-alexia-foundation-invites-student-submissions-for- photography-and-multimedia-competition?utm_campaign=rfps%7c2014-12- 31&utm_source=pnd&utm_medium=email Program: Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Invites Applications Agency: Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Deadline: February 25, 2015 In order to promote dialogue and raise public awareness about the role of architecture in culture and society, the foundation is inviting applications from nonprofit organizations to assist with the production and presentation of significant programs about architecture and the designed environment. To that end, grants of up to $30,000 will be awarded to help organizations with production-related expenses incurred as it takes a project from conceptualization to realization. Projects may include but are not limited to public presentations such as publications, exhibitions, installations, films, new media projects, and conferences/lectures. Preference will be given to projects that enable the foundation to provide critical support at key points in the development of a project or career. http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rfps/rfp5305-graham-foundation-for-advanced-studies-in-the- fine-arts-invites-applications?utm_campaign=rfps%7c2014-12- 31&utm_source=pnd&utm_medium=email 2
Program: Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics Agency: NEH Division of Public Programs Deadline: June 10, 2015 NEH s Division of Public Programs supports activities that engage millions of Americans in understanding significant humanities works and ideas. The Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics program supports films that examine international themes and subjects in the humanities. The films are meant to spark Americans engagement with the broader world by exploring countries and cultures outside of the United States. The Division of Public Programs encourages innovative nonfiction storytelling that presents multiple points of view in creative formats. At the center of every NEH-funded film is a core set of humanities ideas developed by scholars, matched to imaginative formats that bring the humanities alive for people of all ages and all walks of life. The proposed film must be analytical and deeply grounded in humanities scholarship. It may be as short as thirty minutes or as long as a feature-length film. We invite a wide range of approaches to international and transnational topics and themes, such as an examination of a critical issue in ethics, religion, literature, or history, viewed through an international lens; an exploration of a topic that transcends a single nation-state; a biography of a foreign leader, writer, artist, or historical figure; or an exploration of the history and culture(s) of a specific region, country, or community outside of the United States. http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/bridging-cultures-through-film-international-topics Program: Digital Projects for the Public Agency: NEH Division of Public Programs Deadline: June 10, 2015 NEH s Division of Public Programs supports activities that engage millions of Americans in understanding significant humanities works and ideas. At the center of every NEH-funded public humanities project is a core set of humanities ideas developed by scholars, matched to imaginative formats that bring humanities ideas alive for people of all ages and all walks of life. The Digital Projects for the Public program supports projects such as websites, mobile applications, games, and virtual environments that significantly contribute to the public s engagement with humanities ideas. Projects must be analytical and deeply grounded in humanities scholarship in a discipline such as history, religion, anthropology, jurisprudence, or art history. 3
Digital Projects for the Public grants support projects that are largely created for digital platforms. While these projects can take many forms, shapes, and sizes, you should apply to this program primarily to create digital projects or the digital components of a larger project. NEH is a national funding agency, so these projects should demonstrate the potential to attract a broad, general audience. Projects can have specific targeted audiences (including K-12 students), but they should also strive to cultivate a more inclusive audience. http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/digital-projects-the-public Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Agency: NEH Division of Preservation and Access Deadline: July 21, 2015 The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR) program supports projects that provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. Funding from this program strengthens efforts to extend the life of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology. Awards are also made to create various reference resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation. HCRR offers two kinds of awards: 1) for implementation and 2) for planning, assessment, and pilot efforts (HCRR Foundations grants). http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/humanities-collections-and-reference-resources Program: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants Agency: NEH Division of Digital Humanities Deadline: July 21, 2015 The Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program awards relatively small grants to support the planning stages of innovative projects that promise to benefit the humanities. Proposals should be for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives in any area of the humanities. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants may involve research that brings new approaches or documents best practices in the study of the digital humanities; planning and developing prototypes of new digital tools for preserving, analyzing, and making accessible digital resources, including libraries and museums digital assets; 4
scholarship that focuses on the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital culture and its impact on society; scholarship or studies that examine the philosophical or practical implications and impact of the use of emerging technologies in specific fields or disciplines of the humanities, or in interdisciplinary collaborations involving several fields or disciplines; innovative uses of technology for public programming and education incorporating both traditional and new media; and new digital modes of publication that facilitate the dissemination of humanities scholarship in advanced academic as well as informal or formal educational settings at all academic levels. Innovation is a hallmark of this grant category, which incorporates the high risk/high reward paradigm often used by funding agencies in the sciences. NEH is requesting proposals for projects that take some risks in the pursuit of innovation and excellence. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants should result in plans, prototypes, or proofs of concept for longterm digital humanities projects prior to implementation. http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/digital-humanities-start-grants Program: Access to Historical Records Agency: National Historical Public and Records Commission Deadline: June 17, 2015 The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks proposals that promote the preservation and use of the nation's most valuable archival resources. This grant program is designed to support archival repositories in preserving and processing primary source materials. The program emphasizes the creation of online tools that facilitate the public discovery of historical records. The Commission looks to fund projects that undertake one or more of the following activities: Preservation, arrangement, and online description of historical records in all formats Digital preservation of electronic records and unstable audio or moving image formats After completing arrangement and description activities, applicants may also propose to digitize materials to provide online access to collections. http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/access.html 5
Program: Publishing Historical Records in Documentary Editions Agency: National Historical Public and Records Commission Deadline: June 17, 2015; October 8, 2015 The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks proposals to publish documentary editions of historical records. Projects may focus on the papers of major figures from American history or cover broad historical movements in politics, military, business, social reform, the arts, and other aspects of the national experience. The historical value of the records and their expected usefulness to broad audiences must justify the costs of the project. The goal of this program is to provide access to, and editorial context for, the historical documents and records that tell the American story. The NHPRC encourages projects, whenever possible and appropriate, to provide access to these materials in a free and open online environment, without precluding other forms of publication. Grants are awarded for collecting, describing, preserving, compiling, editing, and publishing documentary source materials in print and online. Because of the focus on documentary sources, grants do not support preparation of critical editions of published works unless such works are just a small portion of the larger project. http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/editions.html Program: Clements Center-DeGolyer Library Research Travel Grants Agency: Clements Center for Southwest Studies Deadline: March 15, 2015 The sponsor offers travel assistance for periods of one to four weeks to help defray costs of travel, lodging, and research materials for those wishing to conduct research utilizing the DeGolyer Library's collections. Major subject strengths include the European exploration and discovery of America, the development of the Spanish and Mexican borderlands, and the history of the Trans-Mississippi West. The library also possesses significant collections in the fields of business, transportation, especially related to railroads, and science and technology with notable holdings in the history of geology. Other collections are devoted to major and minor figures in English and American literature and there is significant material related to tourism in Mexico. http://www.smu.edu/dedman/academics/institutescenters/swcenter/grants/clementsresearchtrave lgrants/clements%20degolyer%20grants 6
Program: Media Grantmaking Agency: MacArthur (John D. & Catherine T.) Foundation MacArthur's goal in media grantmaking is to provide the public with high-quality, professionallyproduced documentary films, deep and analytical journalism, and well-produced news and public affairs programming. In a media environment characterized by proliferating information sources of varying degrees of reliability, the Foundation seeks to support serious, fact-based journalism for television, radio and the web, the type of original reporting that is likely to be blogged about, linked to, tweeted, and otherwise circulated throughout the Internet. Programs supported by the Foundation inform and educate their viewers about important and under-reported topics, provide balance and accurate information, encourage global conversations, and use technology to tell stories in engaging and interactive ways. http://www.macfound.org/info-grantseekers/submit-letter-inquiry/ Program: Media Projects: Production Grants Agency: MacArthur (John D. & Catherine T.) Foundation Production grants support the production and distribution of films, television programs, radio programs, and related programs that promise to engage the public. Production grants may be used for: production and distribution of films, television programs, and radio programs; meeting with scholars; research and script refinement; and outreach activities and public engagement. http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=269414 Program: Grants Program Agency: Compton Foundation, Inc The Compton Foundation will support organizations building the long-term capacity to ignite change as well as providing rapid response and emerging opportunity funding in the areas of transformative leadership and courageous storytelling. Transformative Leadership--In this area, the Foundation expects to support: institutions that are training, convening, and coaching leaders; networks of leaders working across difference in issue, approach, or constituency; and, exemplary organizations that demonstrate new ways of working, creative collaboration, and transformative leadership qualities. 7
Courageous Storytelling--In this area, the Foundation expects to support: creative media (art, music, drama, writing, photography) that captures imagination, expands our understanding of critical social and environmental problems, and articulates a positive vision for the future; and organizations that help creative artists engage with social and environmental change. http://www.comptonfoundation.org/what-we-support/ Program: Funding Program (Philosophy) Agency: Schalkenbach (Robert) Foundation The Foundation is looking for two types of projects: research and policy applications. TYPE 1: Research Projects: Deepening the Georgist Perspective - The Foundation funds research projects that deepen understanding of how Georgist principles are connected with issues and debates in the social science or humanities disciplines. Applications which seek to expand theoretical and empirical knowledge about issues such as history, sociology and urban planning, development studies, critical theory, philosophy and jurisprudence, political theory and economics, and other relevant topics will be considered. This may be done either by expanding upon the implications of Georgist thought on these issues or by showing how Georgist thought relates to another intellectual tradition (pragmatism, republicanism, socialism, romanticism, conflict theories of society, postmodernism, or any of dozens of other traditions). The Foundation has only a weak interest in research that pertains to Henry George as a writer, speaker, mayoral candidate, etc. The aim is to build upon his ideas, not to celebrate his life. TYPE 2. Policy-oriented projects: Promoting Georgism as a Practical Philosophy - The Foundation funds policy-oriented projects that demonstrate how Georgist philosophy yields practical results in a variety of policy settings. Traditionally, the Foundation has primarily supported projects which advocate a gradual tax shift from buildings to land within the context of local property tax reform. At present, the Foundation wishes to expand the areas in which it will consider policy-oriented applications. Proposals of this type should demonstrate the capacity not only to evaluate the likely consequences of a policy but also to identify the businesses, advocacy groups, and other organizations that might be mobilized on its behalf, and the arguments that might be used to persuade them to join a coalition. The Foundation would like to support projects that focus on: property tax issues, natural resources and the environment, fiscal policy, intellectual property and the commons, poverty, and international development. http://schalkenbach.org/rsf-2/application-for-funding/how-to-apply-for-funding/ 8
Program: Initiative on Philosophy in Education Policy and Practice Agency: Spencer Foundation Applicants are encouraged to understand educational policy and practice in broad terms, including issues that directly relate to K-12 schools and higher education institutions, but also concerning policies that influence children s growth and development in the family and in other areas of social life including children s upbringings, educational issues in family life and in the workplace, the educational effects of welfare policy. The Foundation also encourages diverse kinds of philosophical research ranging from the highly abstract to the highly applied. Proposals might concern any of the following topics: the proper content of moral education and of the rights of parents to constrain it; the place of religion in schools; justice and efficiency in the allocation of public funds across schools and school districts; the content of the curriculum; assessment of competing conceptions of equality in educational resources and outcomes; the commercialization of schools and childhoods generally; the obligations to students with special educational needs; the proper content of sex education in particular and "education for living" more generally (concerning, eg, parenting, financial selfmanagement, etc) and the extent to which it is right for schools to defer to parental preferences regarding these matters; the moral rights of school students to privacy, to freedom of expression, to freedom of association, etc.; the rights and obligations of teachers with respect to abusive or violent children; and the distribution and content of higher education. http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/philosophy-in-educational-policy--practice-rfp Program: Grants Program (Music) Agency: Fender Music Foundation The Fender Music Foundation awards instruments and equipment to eligible music instruction programs. These items are lightly used, blemished or otherwise imperfect and have been collected from manufacturers and retailers. Descriptions regarding the specific imperfections of each instrument will be available to selected programs. The organization is currently awarding acoustic guitars, electric guitars, acoustic-electric guitars, bass guitars and the equipment necessary to play these instruments. However, other traditional music instruments are sometimes available. Traditional instruments include string instruments, woodwind instruments, brass instruments, percussion instruments, keyboards and voice. http://www.fendermusicfoundation.org/grants/grants-info/ 9
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