Cultural and Community Resilience

Background
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access is accepting applications for the Cultural and Community Resilience program. This program supports community-based efforts to address the impacts of climate change and COVID-19 by safeguarding cultural resources and fostering cultural resilience through identifying, documenting, and/or collecting cultural heritage and community experiences. The program prioritizes projects from disadvantaged communities in the United States or its jurisdictions, and NEH encourages applications that employ inclusive methodologies.

Grant Details
The CCR program helps communities address the impacts of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic by safeguarding cultural resources and fostering cultural resilience through the identification, documentation, and/or collection of cultural heritage and community experience. Projects should fall into one of two categories: community collecting initiatives or oral history programs. Project activities may take many forms including but not limited to collaborative planning to identify cultural and historical resources, documentation of cultural and historical resources through digital means, recording oral histories, preserving Traditional Knowledge, practices, or technologies, establishing shared resources and protocols for rapid response collecting. NEH welcomes applications at all stages of project development and encourages the use of inclusive methodologies.

Eligibility Requirements
To be eligible to apply, organizations must be nonprofit organizations recognized as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, accredited institutions of higher education (public or nonprofit), state and local governments and their agencies, or federally recognized Native American Tribal governments. The program also encourages applications from Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian organizations; minority-serving institutions such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), Hispanic Serving Institutions of higher education (HSIs); community colleges; community archives; and organizations that have not previously received NEH support.

Period of Performance
Projects must start between February 1, 2025, and September 1, 2025 with a period of performance up to two years.

Grant Value
Approximately $2,500,000 will be awarded among an estimated fifteen to twenty recipients per deadline with individual grant awards up to $150,000.