NEH/ssrc humanities grantmaking: sustaining humanities infrastructure program (SHIP) [the social science research council, a nearly 100-year-old nonprofit with decades of experience in grantmaking…

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) was awarded a $2,499,953 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) program. The SSRC will administer the Sustaining Humanities Infrastructure Program (SHIP), providing approximately $100,000 subawards to 20 humanities organizations seeking relief and recovery planning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Subawards will prioritize projects and institutions emphasizing diversity, equity and inclusion topics as well as applications from minority-serving institutions. The SSRC will convene a grantmaking program to distribute subawards and support emergency relief for humanities organizations developing responsive infrastructure. This will restore and sustain critical humanities projects and infrastructure disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.

Activities

Administration of a grantmaking program comprised of approximately 20 subawards of $100,000. This program will prioritize projects and institutions that emphasize topics, themes, and approaches related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as applications from minority serving institutions.

Expected outcomes

Emergency relief to approximately 20 humanities organizations.

Intended beneficiaries

Universities and academic non-profit organizations.

Subrecipient activities

Development of programs, curricula, or research focused on issues of inequality and the role of the humanities in addressing them, as well as social and cultural changes in the nation due to the pandemic.]