From: "Joan K. Lippincott joan@cni.org" Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 09:10:00 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [108.48.127.9] (account joan@cni.org HELO [192.168.1.81]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.2.1) with ESMTPSA id 33842505 for cni-announce@cni.org; Sat, 03 Feb 2018 14:33:02 -0500 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_E62F0890-501B-41DF-BAD2-32C04E01E6C0" Subject: New NEH program to Support Humanities Infrastructure X-Original-Message-Id: <742146EC-45D1-44AB-9EDB-6157847CC565@cni.org> X-Original-Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2018 14:33:00 -0500 X-Original-To: "cni-announce@cni.org (cni-announce@cni.org)" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.6 \(1510\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1510) --Apple-Mail=_E62F0890-501B-41DF-BAD2-32C04E01E6C0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In preparing the ECAR Working Group Paper, co-sponsored by CNI, Building = Capacity for Digital Humanities: A Framework for Institutional Planning = https://library.educause.edu/resources/2017/5/building-capacity-for-digita= l-humanities-a-framework-for-institutional-planning, one of the things = we noted was the paucity of grants available for digital humanities and = the need for better support. Recently, the US National Endowment for the = Humanities (NEH) announced a new challenge grant program to support = humanities infrastructure. The announcement states "the mission of this = Challenge Grants program is to strengthen the institutional base of the = humanities by enabling infrastructure development and capacity building. = Grants aim to help institutions secure long-term support for their core = activities and expand efforts to preserve and create access to = outstanding humanities materials." Details are at = https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/infrastructure-and-capacity-buildi= ng-challenge-grants=20 --Joan Lippincott, CNI= --Apple-Mail=_E62F0890-501B-41DF-BAD2-32C04E01E6C0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii In preparing the ECAR Working Group Paper, co-sponsored by CNI, Building Capacity for Digital Humanities: A Framework for Institutional Planning https://library.educause.edu/resources/2017/5/building-capacity-for-digital-humanities-a-framework-for-institutional-planning, one of the things we noted was the paucity of grants available for digital humanities and the need for better support. Recently, the US National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced a new challenge grant program to support humanities infrastructure. The announcement states "the mission of this Challenge Grants program is to strengthen the institutional base of the humanities by enabling infrastructure development and capacity building. Grants aim to help institutions secure long-term support for their core activities and expand efforts to preserve and create access to outstanding humanities materials." --Apple-Mail=_E62F0890-501B-41DF-BAD2-32C04E01E6C0--