Opportunity Information: Apply for ENGAGEMENT 201910
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), part of the National Archives and Records Administration, offers the Public Engagement with Historical Records grant program to support projects that help more people discover, understand, and use historical records. The central goal is public-facing engagement, especially efforts that make primary sources easier to explore and interpret, including through new online tools. NHPRC is particularly interested in projects that produce reusable models, methods, or technologies that other libraries, archives, museums, schools, and community organizations can adopt freely, rather than one-off efforts that only benefit a single institution.
Competitive projects tend to be collaborative and interdisciplinary, bringing together combinations of archivists, documentary editors, historians, educators, technologists, and community-based partners. The program also favors proposals that try new approaches for introducing primary sources and teaching people how to use them across multiple settings or locations. In practice, that can mean designing participatory programs that connect the public to records for learning, local history, family research, civic understanding, or creative work, while also documenting workflows and producing shareable tools or guidance that can scale beyond the host organization.
The opportunity highlights several example approaches. One is recruiting and coordinating volunteers or "citizen archivists" to speed up access to historical materials online, such as by tagging, identifying people or places, transcribing handwritten documents, adding annotations, or otherwise enriching digitized content so it becomes more searchable and usable. Another is building educational programs for K-12 students, college classes, or community learners that actively use records held by repositories or collected through the project itself. The grant can also support projects that gather new primary sources directly from the public through events or community collecting days and then share results through public discussions, exhibits, or websites. In addition, NHPRC is open to arts-based engagement that uses historical records as raw material for creative interpretation, such as performances based on life stories, visual art using record facsimiles, audiovisual collages, or music projects that turn historical text into lyrics or composition. The program also encourages the development of technologies that help people share information about historical records, reinforcing the emphasis on tools and approaches that others can reuse.
Funding is provided as a discretionary grant, typically supporting projects lasting one to three years. NHPRC expects to make up to three awards, generally ranging from $50,000 to $150,000 each, with a total program allocation of up to $275,000. For this particular cycle, awards are expected to start no earlier than July 1, 2020. The original application deadline listed for the opportunity was October 3, 2019. Recipients must acknowledge NHPRC support in publications and other products created with grant assistance.
Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations (including 501(c)(3) entities), colleges and universities (public or private), state and local government agencies, and federally acknowledged or state-recognized Native American tribes or groups. The program requires cost sharing: NHPRC will cover no more than 50 percent of total project costs under this category, so applicants must provide the remaining share through a combination of allowable direct costs, indirect costs contributed by the applicant (listed as part of the match rather than charged to the grant), in-kind contributions, non-federal third-party support, and any program income earned directly by the project. A key budgeting restriction is that NHPRC funds cannot be used for indirect costs, consistent with 2 CFR 2600.101, meaning overhead must be covered through the applicant share.
Administrative requirements include maintaining active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) before applying and throughout the review and award process, and providing a valid DUNS number in the application (per the notice language, with registration guidance at sam.gov). A complete submission must include the required federal forms and core narrative materials: Standard Form 424 (Application for Federal Assistance), Standard Form 424B (Assurances for Non-Construction Programs), a project narrative and summary, supplementary materials, and a detailed budget. Applications missing required components, or proposals composed entirely of activities NHPRC deems ineligible under its published "What we do and do not fund" guidelines, will not be reviewed.Apply for ENGAGEMENT 201910
- The National Archives and Records Administration in the humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Public Engagement with Historical Records" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 89.003.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 16, 2019.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Oct 03, 2019. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $150,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 3 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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