The Common Heritage grant is designed to preserve America’s cultural heritage found in homes, family histories, and life stories. This grant supports community cultural institutions in organizing public events for digitizing historical materials like photos, documents, and artifacts. Experienced staff will digitize items brought by the public, recording descriptive information, and providing contributors with a free digital copy. With permission, copies are added to institutional collections. The grant also funds public outreach programs, such as lectures or workshops, that explore and interpret these materials, deepening understanding of community history and culture. Institutions must plan and promote events, collaborating with other local organizations.
Opportunity ID: 292681
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | 20170601-PY |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Common Heritage |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Grant |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Humanities |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | – |
| Assistance Listings: | 45.149 — Promotion of the Humanities_Division of Preservation and Access |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Mar 23, 2017 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 01, 2017 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 01, 2017 |
| Archive Date: | – |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | $12,000 |
| Award Floor: | $1 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) State governments County governments Private institutions of higher education Public and State controlled institutions of higher education Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education City or township governments Special district governments |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | – |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | 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 Common Heritage program recognizes that members of the public—in partnership with libraries, museums, archives, and historical organizations—have much to contribute to the understanding of our cultural mosaic. Together, such institutions and the public can be effective partners in the appreciation and stewardship of our common heritage. 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 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 should provide a framework for a deeper understanding of the community members’ shared or divergent heritage. The programs may take place before, during, and/or after the day of the digitization event. Applicants may but need not include in their proposals a topic around which the event and the programs would be organized. Topics proposed for programs may also be proposed for the digitization event. The applicant institution must plan, promote, and organize the event and ensure that a wide range of historical materials can be digitized and also contextualized through public programming. Since the help of additional institutions and organizations in the community may be needed to accomplish this work, the applicant must take responsibility for enlisting appropriate organizations or institutions, such as local libraries and museums, to contribute to the project, as needed. |
| Link to Additional Information: | https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/common-heritage |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Common Heritage
National Endowment for the Humanities 400 Seventh Street, SW Washington, DC 20506 202-606-8570 or preservation@neh.gov preservation@neh.gov Email:preservation@neh.gov |
Version History
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Related Documents
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Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Common Heritage National Endowment for the Humanities 400 Seventh Street, SW Washington, DC 20506 202-606-8570 or preservation@neh.gov preservation@neh.gov Email: preservation@neh.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45.149 | PY2017 | Common Heritage | PKG00231595 | Mar 23, 2017 | Jun 01, 2017 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
292681 SF424_Short_1_1-1.1.pdf
292681 SupplementaryCoverSheetforNEHGrantPrograms_3_0-3.0.pdf
292681 Budget-1.0.pdf
292681 Attachments-1.0.pdf
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