FUNDING-NEH
- Common Heritage; May 31, 2018
Agency
National
Endowment for the Humanities
Description
America’s
cultural heritage is preserved not only in libraries, museums, archives, and
other community organizations, but also in all of our homes, family histories,
and life stories. The Common Heritage program aims to capture this vitally
important part of our country’s heritage and preserve it for future
generations. Common Heritage will support both the digitization of cultural
heritage materials and the organization of outreach through community events
that explore and interpret these materials as a window on the community’s
history and culture. The
program supports events organized by community cultural institutions, which
members of the public will be invited to attend. At these events experienced
staff will digitize the community historical materials brought in by the
public. Project staff will also record descriptive information—provided by
community attendees—about the historical materials. Contributors will be given
a free digital copy of their items to take home, along with the original
materials. With the owner’s permission, digital copies of these materials would
be included in the institutions’ collections. Historical photographs,
artifacts, documents, family letters, art works, and audiovisual recordings are
among the many items eligible for digitization and public
commemoration.
Projects
must also provide community outreach via public events that would expand
understanding of the community’s history or heritage. Public programs could
include lectures, panels, reading and discussion groups, special gallery tours,
screening and discussion of relevant films, presentations by a historian,
special initiatives for families and children, interpretation by curators about
items brought in by the public, workshops on preserving heritage materials, or
other activities that bring humanities perspectives on heritage materials to
community audiences. These activities must be rooted in the analysis of and
engagement with humanities questions.
Announcement
Number:
20180531-PY
Closing
Date:
May
31, 2018
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/common-heritage
Contact
Information
202-606-8570