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Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

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Grant Name: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

Sponsor: National Endowment For The Humanities: Division of Preservation and Access

Important Dates: 

  • Applications Available – May 15, 2020

  • Application Due: July 15, 2020
  • Project Start Date – June 1, 2021

Application: To gain more information and/or to apply, visit here.

Maximum Award Amount:

  • Implementation Projects: $350,000
  • Foundation Projects: $50,000

The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR) program supports projects that provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. Funding from this program strengthens efforts to extend the life of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology. Awards are also made to create various reference resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation.

The HCRR program includes two funding categories: Implementation and Foundations.