You are invited to participate in a free grant workshop October 1 on the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI) of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Brett Bobley, DHI Director and NEH Chief Information Officer will lead the workshop. Registration begins at 9:00 and the workshop starts promptly at 9:30. Please RSVP to rita.hallows@asu.edu (or 480-965-5775) or norma.villa@asu.edu (or 480-965-5779) so that we have enough materials and seating available for those attending—we need your name and e-mail address.)
This workshop will explore grant support available from NEH for projects that utilize or study the impact of digital technology. NEH is interested in supporting a wide variety of projects that (a) digitize important materials thereby increasing the public’s ability to search and access humanities information; (b) deploy digital technologies and methods to enhance our understanding or a topic or issues; (c) study the impact of digital technology on the humanities. Grants begin at $5,000 with greater funding available depending on the project. The DHI includes joint grants with IMLS and other government agencies. (More information is available at www.neh.gov/grants/digitalhumanities.html)
The workshop will highlight projects NEH hopes to fund, discuss successfully funded proposals, offer suggestions on writing a good proposal, discuss budgeting, note the different funding streams for digital projects at NEH, and highlight the review process. Following the NEH presentation and discussion, the morning will close with a short session conducted by the Arizona Humanities Council highlighting its grants. The workshop concludes by 12:15. Pueblo Grande Museum, 4619 E. Washington, Phoenix (located west of the Washington exit on SR 143.
