NEH Grants

Social Justice & Civic Affairs (Local) is sponsored by Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation. Supports organizations addressing social justice, affordable housing, homelessness, and related issues. Eligible applicants are organizations that received a Foundation grant in the previous year and submit a narrative and financial report on activities supported by the Foundation's most recent grant.

Retail Flexible Funding Model (RFFM) Grant Program is sponsored by National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This program provides funding to state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) retail food regulatory agencies to advance conformance with food safety standards and reduce foodborne illness risk factors.

NEH Public Humanities Projects is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). NEH offers various funding opportunities to support research, education, preservation, capacity building, and public programming in the humanities. This includes projects that foster a deeper knowledge of communities and the world, and initiatives related to American history and culture.

Landmarks of American History and Culture is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) — Division of Lifelong Learning. This grant program supports dynamic professional development workshops for educators centered on historic sites and cultural landmarks. Nonprofits and cultural institutions can apply to host or design immersive programs exploring significant historical moments, places, and communities within American history, including African diaspora milestones.

Landmarks of American History and Culture and Summer Institutes for Higher Education Faculty is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Division of Lifelong Learning. These are residential professional development programs that offer higher education faculty opportunities to deepen their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching. Successful applicants will convene the same project in two consecutive summers.

Landmarks of American History and Culture and Summer Institutes for K-12 Educators is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Division of Lifelong Learning. This NEH program supports professional development programs for K-12 educators. While focused on American history and culture, it can be relevant if arts and music education are integrated into these humanities topics, promoting a deeper understanding of the history and culture of the United States.

Public Humanities Projects is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Public Programs. This program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. It welcomes projects tailored to particular groups, such as youth (including K-12 students in informal educational settings). Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes.

Public Humanities Projects is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) — Division of Lifelong Learning. Supports projects that bring the humanities to life for broad public audiences through public programming, historic site interpretation, exhibitions, and digital media. Nonprofits can utilize this funding to create community-driven cultural heritage programming, local histories, and interpretive exhibits highlighting African diaspora histories.

Landmarks of American History and Culture and Summer Institutes for Higher Education Faculty is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). This program supports humanities education through professional development for higher education faculty members. Projects should strengthen humanities teaching and learning, consider how topics engage scholarship, teaching, and curricula, and build lasting communities for intellectual and professional collaboration.

Institutes for Higher Education Faculty is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). These are residential, virtual, and combined format professional development programs that convene higher education faculty from across the nation to deepen their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching.

Public Humanities Projects is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Division of Lifelong Learning. The NEH offers grant programs to support museums, historic sites, colleges, universities, K-12 teachers, libraries, public television and radio stations, research institutions, independent scholars, and nonprofits nationwide. Public Humanities Projects grants specifically support projects that engage general audiences with humanities topics.

Collections Stewardship is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Division of Collections & Infrastructure. NEH's Collections Stewardship program funds planning and implementation projects to preserve and improve access to humanities collections, both physical and digital. This could be relevant for projects involving the preservation and accessibility of original texts for scholarly editions and translations.

Collections Stewardship is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) — Division of Collections & Infrastructure. Funds projects that preserve and make available physical and digital collections important for research and public engagement in the humanities. Eligible activities include conducting digital preservation assessments, rehousing audio/visual materials, cataloging rare sound recordings, and digitizing or reformatting collections for web-accessible digital repositories.

National Digital Newspaper Program is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and Library of Congress (LOC). This program is a partnership between the NEH and the Library of Congress to create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963 from all U.S. states and jurisdictions. The digitized newspapers are permanently maintained at the Library of Congress and are freely accessible online through Chronicling America. The program supports the conversion of approximately 100,000 pages into digital files over two years.

National Digital Newspaper Program is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). This program is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress to create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963. The searchable database will be permanently maintained at the Library of Congress and will be freely accessible online. The program seeks to digitize newspapers and create web resources.

NEHA-FDA Retail Flexible Funding Model (RFFM) Grant Program (GY 2027-28) is sponsored by National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This program provides funding to state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) retail food regulatory agencies to advance conformance with the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards. It aims to reduce foodborne illness risk factors.

NEHA-FDA Retail Flexible Funding Model (RFFM) Grant Program is sponsored by National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This program provides funding to state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) retail food regulatory agencies to advance conformance with the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards. Funds can be used for projects that reduce foodborne illness risk factors.

NEHA-FDA Retail Flexible Funding Model (RFFM) Grant Program (Grant Year 2027-28) is sponsored by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) / National Environmental Health Association (NEHA). This program provides funding to state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) retail food regulatory agencies to advance conformance with the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program Standards).

Fellowships (for individuals pursuing projects in American history and culture and Western civilization) is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Projects may be at any stage of development. The 2026 competition will only accept projects for research in American history and culture and Western civilization.

Fellowships (NEH) is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). NEH Fellowships are competitive awards for individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. These fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, born-digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development, and submissions from independent scholars and junior scholars are encouraged. The 2026 Fellowships competition will accept projects for research in American history and culture and Western civilization.

Fellowships (Individual Programs) is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Grants to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional humanistic research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Designed to provide recipients with dedicated time to write, travel, conduct research, and perform other project-related activities valuable to humanities scholars and/or general audiences.

Media Projects: Development and Production Grants is sponsored by U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). This program supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, and documentary films that engage general audiences with humanities ideas. Projects must be grounded in humanities scholarship and demonstrate a thoughtful, balanced, and analytical approach. The program offers two levels of funding: Development (for film scripts or detailed treatments) and Production (for full production and post-production).

Media Projects is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) — Division of Lifelong Learning. Supports the development, production, and distribution of public-facing media projects—including podcasts, radio broadcasts, documentary films, and online video series—that engage general audiences with humanities ideas. Nonprofits producing analytical, scholarly digital publications or multimedia series dealing with cultural histories can apply.