Opportunity Information: Apply for 20220517 CHA
The Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants program is a discretionary grant opportunity offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through its Office of Challenge Grants. It is designed to strengthen the physical and digital foundations that support humanities work, with an emphasis on improvements that will last and continue delivering value over time. The program sits within the Humanities funding activity area (CFDA 45.130) and supports projects that enhance an institution's ability to carry out humanities activities and serve broader humanities audiences.
The opportunity supports two main types of projects. The first is Capital Projects, which can include the design, purchase, construction, restoration, or renovation of facilities used for humanities activities. In practical terms, this could involve upgrading or expanding spaces where humanities research, preservation, exhibitions, public programs, teaching, or collections-based work takes place, as long as the investments are clearly tied to humanities use. The second category is Digital Infrastructure, focused on keeping existing digital scholarly projects and platforms viable. Rather than funding brand-new digital projects, this track emphasizes maintaining, modernizing, and ensuring the long-term sustainability of established digital resources, such as scholarly databases, digital editions, online collections platforms, or other mature humanities-oriented digital environments.
A key expectation across both categories is that applicants must demonstrate that proposed expenditures will produce long-term benefits, not only for the applying institution but also for the humanities more broadly. This means proposals should make a persuasive case that the project will strengthen capacity, reduce long-term risk, improve reliability or access, and provide enduring support for humanities scholarship, education, preservation, or public engagement. The challenge-grant framing also signals that NEH is looking for institutional commitment and durable impact, so the overall narrative typically needs to show how the project fits into a longer-term strategy for humanities infrastructure and organizational resilience.
Eligible applicants include a wide range of public and nonprofit entities. This includes state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; and nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (excluding higher education institutions, which are listed separately). The award ceiling for this opportunity is $1,000,000, and NEH anticipated making about 15 awards under this competition. The opportunity was created on March 14, 2022, with an original application closing date of May 17, 2022, under funding opportunity number 20220517-CHA.Apply for 20220517 CHA
- The National Endowment for the Humanities in the humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.130.
- This funding opportunity was created on Mar 14, 2022.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 17, 2022. (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 $1,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 15 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district 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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