Grants
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Philosophy of Funding
When working on major grants, we encourage DSG projects to create proposals building infrastructure that could potentially support multiple projects, and keep re-use and shared results in mind.
Grant Calendar
Grant Trello
Areas of Focus
- Funding the development of infrastructure through grant proposals that will let us build layers onto the DRS Project Toolkit
- Picking those layers so they will serve a wide range of projects
- Thinking about layers 2,3 and 5 years out
- Professional development for graduate students and librarians
- Projects building on deep TEI and XML expertise.
National Grants
Federal
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Collaborative Research (CR) " grants support interpretive humanities research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars, for full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years" -- generally December deadline
- Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR), can be for implementation or planning/pilot/assessment -- generally July deadline
- Research and Development (RD; formerly PARD) "grants support projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources" -- generally June deadline
- Digital Humanities Implementation (DHI) "fund the implementation of innovative digital-humanities projects that have successfully completed a start-up phase and demonstrated their value to the field" -- generally February deadline
- Digital Humanities Start-up "relatively small grants to support the planning stages of digital projects that promise to benefit the humanities. The program supports both new projects in early stages of development and efforts to reinvigorate existing or dormant projects in innovative ways" -- generally September deadline
- Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities "support national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities" -- generally March deadline
- Digital Projects for the Public "support projects that significantly contribute to the public’s engagement with the humanities" -- generally June deadline
- Documenting Endangered Languages "to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages... this effort aims also to exploit advances in information technology" -- generally September deadline
- Humanities Open Book Program "designed to make outstanding out-of-print humanities books available to a wide audience. By taking advantage of low-cost “ebook” technology" -- generally September deadline
- Scholarly Editions and Translations "support the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts and documents of value to the humanities that are currently inaccessible or available in inadequate editions" -- generally December deadline
- NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program "National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in the United States and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V., DFG) are working together to offer support for projects that contribute to developing and implementing digital infrastructures and services for humanities research" -- generally September deadline
- Institute for Library and Museum Services
- Logistical notes about IMLS applications
- Laura Bush "supports projects to recruit and educate the next generation of librarians, faculty, and library leaders; and to support early career research. It also assists in the professional development of librarians and library staff" -- presumed September 15, 2015
- Sparks! "encourage libraries and archives to test and evaluate specific innovations in the ways they operate and the services they provide. Sparks Grants support the deployment, testing, and evaluation of promising and groundbreaking new tools, products, services, or organizational practices" -- presumed early February 2016
Foundations and Non-profits
- Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
- Hidden Collections -- April 30, 2015
- The Spencer Foundation
- The Ford Foundation
Fellowships
http://www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/fellrecipients.html
Regional and Local Grants
- Search grants databases like Pivot for opportunities related to project content or theme (Catskills, ECDA others have strong content focus that might be of interest to foundations or specialized grants)
Contacts (Northeastern)
Marybeth Savicki (corporate and foundation relations)
Hillary Corbett (campus Pivot expert)
Liz Bucar (Dean's Leadership Fellow, help with grants)
Application Boilerplate
- Institutional context language
- About the DSG language
Recommendations for Projects
- Experiment with internal grants first, such as Tier 1 grants from the Provost's Office.
- DSG will build a checklist for new awardees.
- DSG will build advice and suggestions for good practices for DSG projects: what to expect, and what to expect if you want our help. Include template /typical grant timeline (i.e., it takes 8 weeks to develop a proposal, based on our experience.)
Grant Ideas
- Visualization tools for OJS, Bookworm perhaps?
- Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities: building off the proposed 2015 summer institute event; potential collaboration with the NULab in 2016?