Chair’s Disaster Recovery Grants for Humanities Collections

Chair’s Disaster Recovery Grants for Humanities Collections is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities. Assists humanities organizations in responding to and recovering from disasters affecting their collections.

Chair’s Disaster Recovery Grants for Humanities Collections Chair’s Disaster Recovery Grants for Humanities Collections applications accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis The deadline for this cycle has passed. Updated guidelines will be posted in advance of the next deadline. In the meantime, please use these guidelines to get a sense of what is involved in assembling an application.

The Chair’s Disaster Recovery Grants for Humanities Collections program helps humanities organizations that steward collections respond to and recover from local, state, regional, and federally declared disasters, including fires, floods, hurricanes, mudslides, and climate-related disasters.

NEH will consider applications only if the NEH Chair specifically invites an organization affected by a disaster to apply or issues an open call for applications from organizations affected by a disaster. This page is an open call for applications from organizations affected by the floods in Central Texas in July 2025.

Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis for six months from organizations in or serving the counties covered by the Federal disaster declaration . No other applications will be considered. Emergency response and recovery activities may include salvaging humanities collections such as rare books, documents, photographs, artwork, sculptures, historical objects, audiovisual media, and digital collections.

Preservation field services networks and consortia that support collecting institutions’ efforts to respond to and recover from emergencies impacting cultural heritage collections are also eligible to apply. Chair’s Disaster Recovery Grants for Humanities Collections Notice of Funding Opportunity Grants. gov application package for Chair’s Disaster Recovery Grants for Humanities Collections If submitting your proposal through Grants.

gov represents a hardship to your organization, you may apply directly to NEH. If you have not yet registered with SAM at the time of application or have not obtained a Unique Entity Identifier, you may apply directly to NEH. However, you must have a Unique Entity Identifier and active SAM.

before NEH can issue an award to your organization. Either download the Grants. gov forms from the Grants.

gov forms library or contact NEH staff at preservation@neh. gov to receive forms. Attach the forms and other application components described in this notice to an email addressed to NEH at preservation@neh.

gov. The subject of the email should be “Chair’s Emergency Grants application: [Your Organization’s Legal Name]. ” NEH staff are available to provide technical assistance. Chair’s Disaster Recovery Grants for Humanities Collections Notice of Funding Opportunity Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence for NEH Grant Proposals