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Building Common Ground | Rural Community Support Designing rural futures, together We support small-town leaders to imagine, develop, design, and build social infrastructure that reflects local culture and strengthens community life in rural, Indigenous, and remote places. Building Common Ground is a group of designers, leaders, and advocates working to strengthen the built environment of rural communities.
We search for common ground across differences, helping rural, tribal, and remote communities build places that strengthen connection, resilience, and community life. Social infrastructure includes the places where community life happens—community centers, libraries, clinics, cultural facilities, food co-ops, and other shared spaces that foster connection, celebration, and care.
When these spaces are purpose-built and rooted in local culture, they strengthen community resilience and help communities weather change. We work with small rural communities to provide the same quality of planning, design, and development support as urban areas, delivered in ways that are culturally grounded, context-specific, and led by local priorities. Epicenter Summit, Green River UT.
PC TBD We believe rural and Tribal communities deserve access to high-quality design support that honors local knowledge, strengthens cultural infrastructure, and builds long-term capacity. Eastern Shoshone Powwow, Ft. Washakie WY.
PC TBD Communities are experts in their own places. BCG supports—not replaces—local leadership and decision-making. Projects begin with stories, history, and cultural meaning before moving into design, planning, or technical solutions.
Mt. Zion Black Cultural Center, Athens, OH. PC TBD Design Workshop, Grenada, MS. PC Rory Doyle Mural In Frederiksted, St.
Croix, PC TBD Experience Learning, Spruce Knob, WV. PC TBD Our work produces practical tools - plans, design concepts, development strategies, and funding pathways that communities can actually use to move projects forward. BCG’s program, Fieldwork, puts this approach into practice by supporting a national cohort of rural and Tribal communities in developing real projects from early ideas through implementation.
Mt. Zion Black Cultural Center, Athens, OH. PC TBD Mural In Frederiksted, St.
Croix, PC TBD Fieldwork is a new national program for rural and Tribal communities that provides customized design, planning, and project development support. Through workshops, coaching, and technical design support, Fieldwork helps communities develop real projects—from early vision to clear plans for design, funding, and implementation.
Rather than delivering preset solutions, Fieldwork works alongside communities to clarify goals, organize ideas, and develop a shared roadmap to move projects forward at a pace that reflects local capacity and priorities. Fieldwork has selected 20 rural and Tribal communities from across the country for its inaugural fellowship cohort.
Representing six time zones, from Hawai’i and Alaska to Maryland and Mississippi, the selected projects reflect the important work communities are doing to preserve cultural knowledge, strengthen public memory, create gathering spaces, and shape more resilient futures rooted in place. The cohort includes projects focused on cultural centers, archives, public landscapes, exhibitions, main streets, and Indigenous cultural preservation.
Over the next 18 months, Fieldwork will work alongside these communities and Tribes through place-based design support, technical assistance, peer learning, coaching, site visits, workshops, and a national Summit to help move projects from vision toward implementation. The selected rural and Tribal communities, along with their project descriptions, are listed below.
Native Village of Eyak, Eyak, AK The Native Village of Eyak is creating a permanent cultural center dedicated to preserving and revitalizing the languages, stories, arts, and knowledge systems of the Eyak, Chugach, Tlingit, and Ahtna peoples. The project represents a powerful investment in Indigenous cultural continuity, healing, and self-determination.
Perseverance Theatre, Douglas, AK Perseverance Theatre is advancing Indigenous-centered performance and storytelling in Alaska through a model rooted in cultural revitalization, artistic rigor, and community collaboration. Located on Tlingít homelands, the project uses theatre to create spaces for dialogue, reflection, and collective healing across generations and communities.
Pacific Birth Collective, Wai’ele, HI Pacific Birth Collective is creating a community resiliency hub that supports Native Hawaiian families through pregnancy, birth, postpartum care, food access, cultural practice, and intergenerational learning. Rooted in ʻohana and ʻāina, the project strengthens maternal health while cultivating the next generation of Native Hawaiian cultural and healing practitioners.
Lincoln Heights Legacy Project, Weed, CA The Lincoln Heights Legacy Project is preserving the history and cultural memory of one of the American West’s oldest Black neighborhoods. Following the 2022 Mill Fire, residents are leading efforts to safeguard artifacts, document oral histories, and ensure their community’s story remains visible, protected, and community-owned.
Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, Mantako, MN The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe is transforming the site of the 1862 Dakota mass hanging in Mankato into a Living Memorial and Cultural Education Center. Rooted in healing, truth-telling, and reconciliation, the project creates space for Dakota cultural continuity while inviting Native and non-Native communities into deeper understanding and remembrance.
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, Cass Lake, MN The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe is advancing long-term efforts to revitalize Ojibwe language and culture through education, preservation, and intergenerational teaching. Grounded in responsibility to future generations, the project strengthens cultural identity while ensuring traditional knowledge continues to live through community practice and everyday life.
Berry Medicine Native BirthWork Initiatives, Havre, MT Berry Medicine Native BirthWork Initiatives is restoring Indigenous birthing knowledge and maternal care practices across Native communities in Montana. By reconnecting birthwork to culture, ceremony, language, and family, the organization is advancing community health while strengthening intergenerational care and cultural continuity.
Project49, Livingston, MT Project49 is transforming a historic 1906 grain elevator into a permanent community makerspace, arts hub, and gathering place in rural Montana. Rooted in creativity, access, and shared learning, the project creates space for people across generations to connect, build skills, and strengthen community through hands-on cultural and creative exchange.
Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, Port Angeles, WA The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe is planning a cultural longhouse that will serve as a regional space for Indigenous art, dance, song, gathering, and education. Rooted in cultural sovereignty and inter-tribal connection, the project creates an enduring place for Native traditions to be practiced, shared, and carried forward.
The Merc Playhouse Society, Twisp, WA The Merc Playhouse Society is reimagining a century-old landmark in Twisp, Washington, as a resilient cultural anchor for the Methow Valley. Through community-led planning, the project explores how rural arts spaces can strengthen civic life, deepen belonging, and support the cultural vitality of remote communities.
Mid-Atlantic, South, and Southeast Regions Bayou Youth Leadership Project, Dulac, LA Bayou Youth Leadership Project is creating an intergenerational gathering space shaped by Indigenous youth, elders, storytelling, and cultural exchange in coastal Louisiana. Inspired by the former Dulac Community Center, the project reconnects community members to land, culture, and resilience in the face of environmental and cultural change.
Opelousas Museum, Opelousas, LA The Opelousas Museum is preserving and elevating the stories of a culturally rich Louisiana community often overlooked in broader historical narratives. Through community-centered interpretation and cultural preservation, the museum is strengthening local identity while expanding access to the region’s deeply layered histories and traditions.
Harriet Tubman Center, Cambridge, MD Underground Underwater explores the intersection of African American history, cultural memory, and climate change across Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Through oral histories, mapping, and storytelling, the project documents landscapes connected to Harriet Tubman’s legacy that are increasingly threatened by sea level rise and environmental change.
Lighthouse | Black Girl Project, Jackson, MS The Lighthouse | Black Girl Projects is building an ecosystem of care, leadership, and cultural power for Black girls and women in Jackson, Mississippi and beyond. Through storytelling, climate justice, research, and community organizing, the organization is reshaping whose lives, histories, and futures are recognized, protected, and invested in.
McComb Arts & Entertainment District, McComb, MS The McComb Arts & Entertainment District is reclaiming underused downtown spaces through music, storytelling, murals, and public gathering. Rooted in Mississippi’s deep cultural and civil rights history, the project reconnects residents to place while building a more vibrant and connected civic and cultural future.
Ray Kinsland Leadership Institute, Cherokee, NC The Ray Kinsland Leadership Institute is creating an outdoor classroom rooted in Cherokee cultural practice, storytelling, and land-based learning. Designed as a shared gathering space for youth, families, and knowledge keepers, the project strengthens cultural transmission, language revitalization, and intergenerational connection through place-based education. Project G.
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is developing community-driven pathways for leadership, economic opportunity, and long-term resilience. Grounded in lived experience, the organization is building programs and spaces that respond directly to local needs while helping break cycles of poverty through connection, capacity building, and collective growth.
Gauley Bridge is reimagining its historic riverfront, public spaces, and museum as part of a broader community revitalization effort. Located at the confluence of the New and Gauley Rivers, the project connects Appalachian history, outdoor recreation, and cultural identity while building new momentum for a small rural town.
West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, Matewan, WV The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum preserves and interprets the history of Appalachian labor struggles, including the Battle of Blair Mountain. Built through collaboration among historians, artists, miners, and descendants, the museum honors coalfield communities while connecting local stories of resistance to broader movements for dignity and workers’ rights.
Learn More June 4, 2026 Press Release Fieldwork is supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place program. Our approach is grounded in trust, partnership, and long-term commitment. We meet communities where they are and stay with them as projects evolve—often over years, not months.
We combine coaching, technical expertise, and shared learning to reduce risk, build local capacity, and help communities carry projects from early ideas to implementation. We’re in this together and we both have to show up ready to work. We search for commonalities and strive to work across the differences that divide us.
We’re in it for the long-haul, we build trust and accompany our partners long term. We show up, working alongside you and your community even through difficult times. We’re in this together and we both have to show up ready to work.
We search for commonalities and strive to work across the differences that divide us. We’re in it for the long-haul, we build trust and accompany our partners long term. We show up, working alongside you and your community even through difficult times.
Chip Thomas mural in Green River, UT PC Danny Baxter Our work centers people, place, and long-term partnership. We support communities not just to imagine what’s possible, but to carry it forward. Design is how we help rural and Indigenous communities turn stories, history, and values into tangible, community-owned places.
We use design as both a practical and cultural tool—clarifying ideas, building readiness, and creating fundable pathways from vision to implementation. Through participatory, place-based design, we strengthen local leadership, honor identity, and shape spaces that support connection, resilience, and long-term community life. Housing and Park Space Master Plan, Sunnyside, WA.
PC OB Cruz BCG brings together core organizations alongside a wide circle of advisors spanning rural advocacy, design, and community development. To Be Done Studio (TBD), based in Washington, D. C.
, and co-lead for Building Common Ground: Fieldwork, is a mission-driven architecture and design firm with deep experience in participatory design across rural America. As the national design lead for the National Endowment for the Arts’ Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design, TBD supported dozens of communities in shaping inclusive, actionable strategies for public space, cultural projects, and housing.
Epicenter, a rural 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Green River, Utah (pop. 847), will serve as a co-lead for Building Common Ground: Fieldwork, and host the national Summit. For over 16 years, Epicenter has demonstrated what it means to do design with care—deeply rooted in place, built on trust, and sustained through creative persistence.
Their award-winning work in housing, the arts, and community development has become a national model for what is possible in politically conservative, economically under-resourced rural communities. A wide circle of BCG advisors amplifies the impact and capabilities of Building Common Ground’s core team members, programs, and communities.
Composed of a hand-picked group of rural activists, advocates, artists, organizers, and technical specialists, advisors provide their unique expertise and experience to inform approach, business development, fundraising, governance, programming, or project strategy. To Be Done Studio (TBD), based in Washington, D. C.
, and co-lead for Building Common Ground: Fieldwork, is a mission-driven architecture and design firm with deep experience in participatory design across rural America. As the national design lead for the National Endowment for the Arts’ Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design, TBD supported dozens of communities in shaping inclusive, actionable strategies for public space, cultural projects, and housing.
Epicenter, a rural 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Green River, Utah (pop. 847), will serve as a co-lead for Building Common Ground: Fieldwork, and host the national Summit. For over 16 years, Epicenter has demonstrated what it means to do design with care—deeply rooted in place, built on trust, and sustained through creative persistence.
Their award-winning work in housing, the arts, and community development has become a national model for what is possible in politically conservative, economically under-resourced rural communities. A wide circle of BCG advisors amplifies the impact and capabilities of Building Common Ground’s core team members, programs, and communities.
Composed of a hand-picked group of rural activists, advocates, artists, organizers, and technical specialists, advisors provide their unique expertise and experience to inform approach, business development, fundraising, governance, programming, or project strategy. We're builders, designers, and advocates working alongside rural and Indigenous communities to turn shared visions into lasting places.
Building Common Ground brings together practitioners who believe small towns deserve the same quality of planning, design, and development support as anywhere else, delivered with care, rooted in place, and led by local priorities Award-winning architect Omar Hakeem works alongside rural, Tribal and frontline communities—from the Gulf Coast to Tribal Land in Wyoming—advancing affordable housing, disaster recovery, and climate-ready design.
He is Founder and Principal of To Be Done Studio. Award-winning architect Omar Hakeem works alongside rural, Tribal and frontline communities—from the Gulf Coast to Tribal Land in Wyoming—advancing affordable housing, disaster recovery, and climate-ready design. He is Founder and Principal of To Be Done Studio.
Brandon is a designer exploring architecture’s social and environmental stakes, centering community stewardship in practice. Their work spans affordable housing and civic projects, pairing new construction methods with care for the places and people they serve. Caitlin helps rural and Tribal communities turn locally driven ideas into funded, buildable projects.
Blending capital strategy, facilitation, and design, she moves community projects from vision to ribbon-cutting—grounded in trust and local leadership. Natalya applies architectural research and strategy to environmental, social, and water justice. Her work spans housing, arts spaces, and large mixed-income developments across the U.S. and Germany, grounded in equity and systems thinking.
Jamie is an artist in rural Nebraska. She helps communities, artists, and organizations bring ideas to life through process design and facilitation. Her work helps people gather well and create together.
Brandon is a designer exploring architecture’s social and environmental stakes, centering community stewardship in practice. Their work spans affordable housing and civic projects, pairing new construction methods with care for the places and people they serve. Caitlin helps rural and Tribal communities turn locally driven ideas into funded, buildable projects.
Blending capital strategy, facilitation, and design, she moves community projects from vision to ribbon-cutting—grounded in trust and local leadership. Natalya applies architectural research and strategy to environmental, social, and water justice. Her work spans housing, arts spaces, and large mixed-income developments across the U.S. and Germany, grounded in equity and systems thinking.
Jamie is an artist in rural Nebraska. She helps communities, artists, and organizations bring ideas to life through process design and facilitation. Her work helps people gather well and create together.
Our advisors are rural activists, artists, organizers, and technical specialists who bring unique expertise and expand what's possible in the communities we serve. This hand-picked circle of practitioners brings deep expertise across design, advocacy, and community development, informing our approach, amplifying our impact, and strengthening the work we do alongside communities.
Matt Smith advises mission-driven organizations on strategy and operations. As COO at Mazzetti, a Loeb Fellow at Harvard and former Managing Director of MASS Design Group, he strengthens the systems behind community-centered design. Dr. Alyssa Kreikemeier is an environmental historian at the University of Idaho working across Indigenous studies, public history, and cultural landscapes.
Her scholarship connects environmental humanities with community-engaged practice. Joseph Kunkel, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, is a community designer advancing sustainable development in Indigenous communities. At MASS, he leads the Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab in Santa Fe.
Lisbet Portman is a cross-media communicator with 15 years in nonprofits at the intersections of health, education, and environmental justice. At Ashoka US, she identifies and supports social entrepreneurs driving systemic change. Chris Lezama is a design strategist shaped by years in rural Green River, Utah, where he co-led a design-driven nonprofit.
Now at CivicMakers, he advances user-centered social innovation with curiosity and edge. Matt Smith advises mission-driven organizations on strategy and operations. As COO at Mazzetti, a Loeb Fellow at Harvard and former Managing Director of MASS Design Group, he strengthens the systems behind community-centered design.
Dr. Alyssa Kreikemeier is an environmental historian at the University of Idaho working across Indigenous studies, public history, and cultural landscapes. Her scholarship connects environmental humanities with community-engaged practice. Joseph Kunkel, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, is a community designer advancing sustainable development in Indigenous communities.
At MASS, he leads the Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab in Santa Fe. Lisbet Portman is a cross-media communicator with 15 years in nonprofits at the intersections of health, education, and environmental justice. At Ashoka US, she identifies and supports social entrepreneurs driving systemic change.
Chris Lezama is a design strategist shaped by years in rural Green River, Utah, where he co-led a design-driven nonprofit. Now at CivicMakers, he advances user-centered social innovation with curiosity and edge. Whether you're a community leader with a project in mind, a potential Fieldwork applicant, or someone interested in partnering with our team, we'd love to hear from you.
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Developing managed aquifer recharge techniques (MAR) in a rural context is sponsored by European Commission — Horizon Europe. Expected Outcome: Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: farmers have access to water supply from managed aquifer recharge systems and to appropriate business models to cope with longer and more intense periods of water scarcity due to climate change, while preserving the good status of ground water bodies; water ecosystems are healthier and more resilient to climate change, and water related ecosystem services are protected and strengthened, while water resilience of farming systems is increased; policy makers are provided with improved insights on mechanisms and instruments to improve the water resilience of the agricultural sector to cope with climate change effects. Scope: Droughts in the EU are increasing in frequency, magnitude and impact, and the affected area is expanding. Water storage systems can limit abstractions from surface waters and groundwater reducing the environmental footprint of agriculture and food systems, and bring the demand and supply of water better in balance, strengthening the resilience of EU agriculture. Proposals should: extend, improve and customize managed aquifer recharge (MAR) techniques at farm, basin and catchment level, covering most representative EU agricultural contexts in view of climate change; develop a methodology to help assessing the most suitable location or situations to implement these MAR techniques and validate with a representative sample of case-study regions, taking into account for the differential impact of climate change; develop a user-friendly monitoring, reporting and verification system (MRV) to follow the impact on ground water quality and quantity, as well as associated water ecosystems and dependent terrestrial ecosystems; evaluate the potential impact and sustainability of managed aquifer recharge techniques in rural areas, including on the groundwater ecosystems, associated water ecosystems and dependent terrestrial ecosystems, and drinking water from a multi-objective approach, and its integration with evidence-based engineered and Nature-based Solutions to reduce runoff, soil erosion and improve landscape climatic resilience; calculate the cost-benefits of MAR techniques and propose different business models for the compensation or remuneration of individual farmers or land managers (payments schemes, nature, carbon or water credits, …) for hosting MAR initiatives; demonstrate the feasibility of these business models at local level (catchment, river basin, ...) by at least 2 case studies in different pedoclimatic zones and evaluate the possible barriers for adoption by farmers or land managers; provide a framework of governance models that could fit the different local socio-economic, regulatory and pedo-climatic conditions. The actions funded under this topic are relevant to the EU policies related to the EU Vision for Agriculture and Food, as well as to the European Water Resilience Strategy and the EU Climate Adaptation Strategy. Proposals must implement the multi-actor approach and ensure adequate involvement of relevant stakeholders, including farmers, land managers, water governance bodies and local authorities. Proposals are encouraged to build on the results of relevant projects funded under Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe and ensure collaboration with relevant ongoing and forthcoming projects from the Mission Soil and the Mission Ocean & Waters. Proposals should follow the Guidance document on managed aquifer recharge techniques of the CIS Working Group on Groundwater [1] . Technology Readiness Level - Technology readiness level expected from completed projects Activities are expected to achieve TRL 4-5 by the end of the project – see General Annex B. [1] Common implementation strategy for the water framework directive and the floods directive: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/e827bbe4-fe33-11ef-b7db-01aa75ed71a1/language-en Programme areas: Horizon Europe (HORIZON), Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment, Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Areas Keywords: Business analysis, Business governance, Business models, Catchment scale planning, Environmental engineering and geotechnics, Environmental impact assessment, Human impacts and other stressors, Hydrology (Water science), Natural resources and environmental economics, Nature-based solutions, Water management, Water recycling and re-use, Water technology, MAR, MRV, business model, climate adaptation, drought, groundwater, impact analysis, managed aquifer recharge, monitoring, reporting and verification system, multi-actor approach, nature-based solutions, sustainable agriculture, water ecosystem, water management, water resilience, water storage
This funding opportunity is authorized under the “Legislative Branch Appropriations Act of 2023” (Pub. L. 117-389 (H.R. 8237)), subject to availability of funding. The resulting awards will be subject to the Library of Congress Regulation (LCR) 7-310. In addition, while the Library, as a legislative agency, is not subject to 2 CFR 200 – Uniform Administrative Requirements, Costs Principles and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards, the resulting awards will be subject to selective provisions of 2 CFR 200 as determined by the Library and indicated in this NOFO. About the Library of Congress The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, films and video, audio recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress. It is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution. The Library’s mission is to engage, inspire, and inform Congress and the American people with a universal and enduring source of knowledge and creativity. About the Teaching with Primary Sources Program (TPS) The Teaching with Primary Sources program (www.loc.gov/teachers) has been the Library of Congress’s premier educational grant program since 2006. The goals of the program have included providing instructional materials, tools, education and professional development that enhance teachers’ ability to integrate digitized primary sources from the Library of Congress into instruction that builds student literacy, critical thinking skills, content knowledge and ability to conduct original research. Since the establishment of the Center for Learning, Literacy and Engagement in 2018, and the release of the Library’s 2024-2028 Strategic Plan, the TPS goals both influence and reflect the Library’s broader outreach goals. About the Lewis-Houghton Civics and Democracy Initiative (LHI) Named in honor of Rep. John R. Lewis (D-GA) and Rep. Amo Houghton (R-NY), the Lewis-Houghton Civics and Democracy Initiative (LHI) is included under the Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program. In the joint explanatory statement for the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2023, Congress established the Lewis-Houghton Civics and Democracy Initiative and appropriated funds to the Library of Congress to award grants to eligible organizations within the United States (U.S.) and its territories to develop digitally-enabled, creative arts-driven projects focused on using the digitized primary sources of the Library of Congress to teach history, civics and/or democracy. More information and a description of past LHI-funded projects can be found at: https://www.loc.gov/programs/teachers/about-this-program/teaching-with-primary-sources-partner-program/lewis-houghton/. TPS Educational Consortium Grantee organizations become members of the TPS Educational Consortium. They include a wide variety of educational organizations including school districts, libraries, cultural institutions, universities and technology firms that have received Library funding to deliver teacher professional development, create teaching materials and develop apps and online interactives, based on Library of Congress materials. TPS Consortium members are valued as “Connectors” who help the Library achieve its vision of connecting to all Americans. TPS Consortium members extend the Library’s reach by connecting hundreds of thousands of American educators and learners, including K-12 teachers and their students, to Library of Congress methods and materials. Consortium members collaborate, co-create, share ideas, network and actively participate as an educational community. Purpose The purpose of this notice is for the Library of Congress to solicit project proposals from eligible organizations and select awardee organizations that will design and implement educational projects in which the Library’s music or creative arts-related digitized primary sources and other online materials are central to teaching and learning about history, civics, and/or democracy. Awards made under Lewis-Houghton Civics and Democracy Initiative must include rights-free materials from the Library’s music or creative arts digital collections, to develop curriculum, teaching materials, educational programs, pedagogical approaches, and/or other tools for history, civic and democracy instruction targeted toward middle and high school educators and learners. LHI awards should center on inquiry-driven analysis of primary sources, build learners’ civic skills and foster participation in our nation’s democracy. In addition to highlighting primary sources from the Library’s collections of music, dance, theater, visual arts, folk arts, film, photography, book arts, arts and literary manuscripts, and/or other creative arts, proposals may also include the use of arts-based pedagogies and other creative approaches. All proposals must expand the body of innovative strategies, tools, and materials for meaningful teaching and learning with Library of Congress materials. The focus of LHI awards includes the design of educational projects using Library of Congress materials for use in and outside of formal classroom settings. In addition to using Library primary sources to deliver history, civics, and/or democracy learning experiences integrating the arts, projects must address demonstrated educational needs of specific recipient populations and provide solutions that standard practice, documented experience, or research suggest would be effective. Organizations that receive LHI awards make up a subset of the TPS Educational Consortium whose work spans areas of interest including but not limited to arts integration, civics education, multimodal learning, and teaching with audiovisual primary sources. Funded projects will support the Library’s mission to use its collections to connect with all Americans, including those representing multiple communities, beliefs and endeavors, to engage, inspire and inform Congress and the American people with a universal and enduring source of knowledge and creativity. Projects must use the Library’s digital collections for one or more of the following approaches: a) Deliver educational programming to various categories of educators and learners in secondary education (middle and high school); b) Create and distribute educational materials or tools for teaching specific content in history, civics, and/or democracy; c) Convene meetings of like organizations to devise strategies for furthering common learning and teaching goals with Library of Congress materials related to music and/or the arts; and/or d) Conduct research with significant practitioner involvement that investigates the impact of incorporating Library of Congress music and/or creative arts collections into history, civics, and/or democracy educational initiatives. Questions and Answers General Questions and Answers: All questions relating to this Notice must be submitted via email to tps-grant@loc.gov no later than the date stated in Section B of the Notice (“General Questions Submission Deadline”). “The subject of each e-mail must read as follows: Notice 030ADV26R0050 – Lewis-Houghton Initiative New Awards – 2027.” Answers will be provided in a Q&A document uploaded to grants.gov. Questions received after the deadline(s) stated in Section B above may not be answered. Technical Questions Submission: Applicants experiencing problems with submitting proposals can request technical assistance until the date specified in Section B above (“Technical Questions Submission Deadline”). Funding Opportunity Number: 030ADV26R0050. Assistance Listing: 42.015. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: ED. Award Amount: Up to $100K per award.
This Digital Europe Programme topic funds the design and delivery of advanced digital and AI skills training for healthcare organisations, with a topic budget of EUR 7.8 million and a deadline of 1 October 2026. It sits under the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform, which signals that the Commission treats healthcare AI capability as a strategic sovereignty matter rather than a routine training exercise. The distinguishing requirement is the pairing: universities, research bodies and industry partners must jointly design AI training aimed at healthcare organisations, so a proposal from an academic consortium with no clinical deployment partner, or from a vendor with no educational partner, is structurally weak. Substantively, the work covers building competence among clinical and administrative staff in the use, procurement, governance and evaluation of AI systems in care settings - the workforce layer that European health systems consistently identify as the real bottleneck to deploying medical AI, rather than model quality. For AI researchers, the relevant framing is that this is a skills and capacity instrument, not a research instrument: deliverables are curricula, training programmes, certification pathways and trained cohorts, and the evaluation criteria reward reach and sustainability of the training offer over scientific novelty. Groups with strong medical AI research but no training track record should partner with an established education provider rather than lead.
With Forms J in FY2027, NIH will no longer accept letters of support — the boilerplate endorsements applicants have padded proposals with for decades. Notice NOT-OD-26-094 replaces them with letters of collaboration, aligning NIH with NSF. Here is exactly what changes, what a compliant letter must now contain, who can no longer write one, and how this fits the broader re-engineering of the NIH application package.
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