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Notice of Funding Opportunity

Dialogues on the Experiences of War

Funding Opportunity Number: 20240905-AV

Funding Opportunity Type: New

Federal Assistance Listing Number: 45.163

Application Deadline: September 17, 2024

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Executive Summary The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Education Programs is accepting applications for the Dialogues on the Experience of War program. This program supports the study and discussion of important humanities sources about war and military service, in the belief that these sources can help U.S. military veterans and others think deeply and in dialogue about the issues that they raise. Dialogues discussion groups may include exclusively veterans (including a subset of veterans such as students or residents of a group facility); nonveteran students or members of the public; military-affiliated persons; or any mix of these groups.

Funding Opportunity Title Dialogues on the Experience of War Funding Opportunity Number 20240905-AV Federal Assistance Listing Number 45.163

Deadline for Optional Draft August 1, 2024, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time Application Deadline September 17, 2024, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time Anticipated Award Announcement April 2025 Anticipated FY 2025 Funding Approximately $1,000,000 Estimated Number and Type of Awards Approximately 10 grants Award Amounts Up to $100,000 Cost Sharing/Match Required No Period of Performance 12 to 24 months

Projects must start between May 1, 2025, and September 1, 2025.

Eligible Applicants • nonprofit organizations recognized as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code

• accredited institutions of higher education (public or nonprofit)

• state and local governments and their agencies

• federally recognized Native American Tribal governments Program Resource Page https://www.neh.gov/grants/education/dialogues-the-experience-war Pre-Application Webinar Pre-recorded webinars will be posted to the program resource page by June 27, 2024, 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

Live Q&A session: July 2, 2024, at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

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Table of Contents

Executive Summary ................................................................................................ i Table of Contents ................................................................................................... ii A. Program Description

1. Purpose

2. Background

B. Federal Award Information

1. Type of Application and Award

2. Summary of Funding

C. Eligibility Information

1. Eligible Applicants

2. Cost Sharing

3. Other Eligibility Information

D. Application and Submission Information

1. Application Package

2. Content and Form of Application Submission

3. Unique Entity Identifier and System for Award Management

4. Submission Dates and Times

5. Intergovernmental Review

6. Funding Restrictions

E. Application Review Information

1. Review Criteria

2. Review and Selection Process

3. Assessment of Risk and Other Pre-Award Activities

4. Anticipated Announcement and Award Dates

F. Federal Award Administration Information

1. Federal Award Notices

2. Administrative and National Policy Requirements

3. Reporting

G. Agency Contacts H. Other Information

A. Program Description

1. Purpose This notice solicits applications for the Dialogues on the Experience of War program, which supports in-person, virtual, and hybrid-format projects that build a community (or communities) of inquiry to enhance veterans’ and nonveterans’ understanding of diverse experiences of military service and war, through professional development and guided group discussions of humanities sources.

Veterans currently comprise close to six percent of the adult population of the United States.

Additionally, there are just over two million people currently serving in the military on active duty or as reservists, another .4% of the wider adult population. Their experiences, activities, and influences remain understudied and not widely understood. While the forms and technologies of war and military engagement may change over time, deeper questions and connections persist and often find expression through the humanities. Dialogues projects enable veterans and civilians to consider their own experiences in light of these questions and within the broader context and perspectives such humanities methods and resources provide.

Dialogues projects create communities of inquiry by building and training a cohort of discussion leaders who will engage participants in recurring, in-depth group discussions of meaningful themes, sources, and issues. Dialogues projects thus offer especially transformative learning experiences for all who participate.

Dialogues Project Requirements Awards of up to $100,000 support two required components:

• Discussion programs: The convening of at least two sustained discussion series focused on humanities resources and themes that address the experiences of military service and war. Each group should comprise approximately fifteen participants who will attend all sessions. Sessions may vary in length and number, but the groups must convene for enough time to foster in-depth dialogue and for enough sessions to build community among the participants.

• Preparatory programs and planning: The creation of an in-person or virtual preparatory program to recruit, train, select, and mentor individuals to serve as discussion leaders, with a suggested minimum of one facilitator per fifteen discussion participants. Project teams may recruit these individuals in the course of the project’s period of performance or they may select a group prior to the start of that term. Projects may prepare a larger cohort of discussion leaders if they wish to have them serve as co-facilitators or as alternates. The program supports the inclusion of consultative and collaborative activities that strengthen the project team’s planning and guidance of their preparatory program.

Preparatory and Discussion programs may convene in person, virtually, or in a hybrid format.

Note: You may find it helpful to prepare a small number of discussion leaders to facilitate a smaller group of five to ten discussion participants for a pilot series, followed by one or more discussion programs for a full cohort of participants. Funds may support the project team’s evaluative work and revision between the pilot and subsequent offerings of the discussion series.

NEH does not prescribe a particular format or schedule for either the preparatory or discussion programs; you may tailor your design to the needs of your audience, project team (including discussion leaders), partners, and host sites. Dialogues projects may offer academic course credit for the preparatory and/or discussion programs or may integrate these programs into existing courses. For projects focused primarily on curricular development in higher education, consider the Humanities Initiatives, Spotlight, and Humanities Connections programs.

Dialogues projects may take a wide variety of forms. See the program resource page for examples.

Discussion programs Discussion programs must allow for deep engagement with the humanities sources. Discussions should engage all participants in shared explorations of open-ended questions about war and military service, such as the nature of service, the place of veterans and the military in society, the meaning of heroism, the ethics of war, or what defines patriotism. You should select humanities sources that enable participants to view their own experiences in relation to human experiences and perspectives distinct from their own. You may include sources that predate living memory and are drawn from different genres. You must engage and support participants in thorough and sustained dialogues.

Discussion programs must:

• treat at least two different conflicts comparatively

• focus on the close study of humanities sources with a diverse range of perspectives

(drawn from genres such as oral histories, visual art, memoirs, military biographies, speeches and letters, philosophical writings, documentary films, and fiction)

• engage participants in deep discussion of the selected humanities sources and the issues that they raise

• convene participants in person, virtually, or in hybrid formats for three or more linked, sequential sessions, providing enough time in the sessions to build trust and intellectual community and foster sustained and inclusive dialogue

Preparatory training programs You must develop and offer a preparatory program to train discussion leaders. The format, length, and methodology of the preparatory program may vary. You must tailor the recruitment, training, selection, and guidance of the discussion leaders to the needs and strengths of the group to be trained and to the goals of the program.

Depending on the needs of your group, preparatory programs may include:

• close study of the humanities sources at the heart of the discussions

• modeling and practice in leading humanities discussions (e.g., posing questions designed to explore texts and elicit discussion of the texts’ contemporary relevance; articulating rules of civil discourse; encouraging group inquiry; moderating disagreements)

• development of discussion leaders’ understanding of the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of military veterans and service members https://www.neh.gov/program/humanities-initiatives-colleges-and-universities https://www.neh.gov/program/spotlight-humanities-higher-education https://www.neh.gov/grants/education/humanities-connections

• criteria for the selection of preparatory program participants and of those who serve as discussion leaders

• plans to mentor, support, and evaluate discussion leaders throughout the period of performance

Evaluations Best practices show that an additional survey of the discussion leaders after they have led a discussion series serves the evaluation of the preparatory programs particularly well. At a minimum, each project must include at least two basic evaluations:

• A survey of discussion leaders after completion of the preparatory program

• A survey of participants in the discussion groups

Indicators of Success A successful Dialogues on the Experience of War project:

• shows how writers, artists, historians, philosophers, and others have portrayed military service and war from diverse points of view

• draws on humanities scholarship and understanding of military service in its approach to the selection and interpretation of humanities sources and themes

• considers universal as well as particular experiences of military service and war

• enables participants to consider their own perspectives in a broad and comparative context, guided by open-ended questions about the subject matter and themes

• fosters participants’ intellectual growth and self-understanding through sustained and interactive discussions

• involves humanities scholars and others with relevant experience or expertise in the core project team throughout the stages of the project

• encourages the respectful exchange of ideas and builds a community of inquiry, trust, and shared learning

Special guidance for prior recipients If you previously received a Dialogues award, you must indicate how the current proposal draws on insights gained and lessons learned from your prior project(s). Your current proposal may involve any of the following objectives:

• reprise, deepen, or refine thematic approaches, humanities sources, or conceptualization of the programs

• enhance recruitment, selection, or mentoring practices for the preparatory and discussion programs

• build capacity for smaller organizations or remote communities to offer Dialogues programs

• develop or extend a local, regional, or national network of Dialogues programs

• create and disseminate project resources for preparatory and discussion programs, such as training videos, facilitator resources, reading and resource lists, source materials, and evaluation forms and guidance

To these ends, you may use award funds to support activities that enable you to revise and enhance your project, such as: evaluation of program components; meetings and workshops;

travel and convening expenses; or other means of sharing resources and best practices with project partners or across a wider programming community.

Prior Dialogues recipients must respond to additional 27Treview criteria and must provide the evaluations conducted for their previous project in Attachment 6: Evaluations.

Program Outputs The outputs of a successful Dialogues on the Experience of War award may include, but are not limited to:

• The professional development for and preparation of a cohort of discussion facilitators.

• The creation of a discussion program that convenes two or more small groups for a series of linked humanities-based dialogues.

You will describe your project outcomes and outputs, and how they would support the overall purpose of the Dialogues on the Experience of War program, in Attachment 1: Narrative. If you receive an award, NEH will assess your performance based on the outputs you identify in the proposal. See F.3 Reporting.

See D6. Funding Restrictions for unallowable activities. Applications unrelated to the purpose of this program or that include unallowable costs or activities may be judged nonresponsive and returned without review.

See E1. Review Criteria for the standards NEH will use to evaluate applications under this notice.

2. Background NEH offers this funding opportunity under the authority of 20 U.S.C. § 956. Awards are subject to 2 CFR Part 200 Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards, and the General Terms and Conditions for Awards to Organizations (for grants and cooperative agreements issued January 1, 2022 or later).

Under Section 3(a) of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, “The term ‘humanities’ includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following:

language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy;

archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism and theory of the arts; those aspects of the social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods;

and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life.”

Use the Funded Projects Query Form to find examples of NEH-supported projects.

Learn more about NEH.

NEH Areas of Interest NEH is especially interested in supporting projects that advance humanities-related work in the following areas. NEH will give all applications equal consideration in accordance with the program’s review criteria.

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NEH encourages projects that include Native American organizations and communities as applicants and project partners.

American Tapestry: Weaving Together Past, Present, and Future American Tapestry: Weaving Together Past, Present, and Future is a wide-ranging special initiative at NEH that leverages the humanities to tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our time: strengthening our democracy, advancing equity for all, and addressing our changing climate. The initiative encourages humanities projects that elevate the role of civics in schools and public programs, advance knowledge of the country’s history and political institutions, and examine threats to its democratic principles. The initiative also encourages projects that explore the untold stories of historically underrepresented groups and build capacity at cultural and educational institutions to benefit underserved communities. Finally, the initiative welcomes projects that promote research into the historical roots and cultural effects of climate change and support the cultural and educational sectors in building climate resilience. By supporting humanities projects that align with these three themes – strengthening our democracy, advancing equity for all, and addressing our changing climate – the American Tapestry initiative seeks to tell our country’s history in all its complexity and diversity.

United We Stand: Connecting Through Culture Hate must have no safe harbor in America – especially when that hate fuels the kind of violence we’ve seen from Oak Creek to Pittsburgh, from El Paso to Poway, and from Atlanta to Buffalo.

When ordinary Americans cannot participate in the basic activities of everyday life – such as shopping at the grocery store or praying at their house of worship – without the fear of being targeted and killed for who they are, our security as well as democracy are at risk. In coordination with the White House “United We Stand” Summit in September 2022, NEH launched a new initiative titled United We Stand: Connecting Through Culture that uses the humanities to combat hate-motivated violence and promote civic engagement, social cohesion, and cross-cultural understanding. As a part of this initiative, NEH encourages humanities projects that further our understanding of the nation’s racial, ethnic, gender, and religious diversity; examine the sources of hate and intolerance in the United States; and explore progress towards greater inclusiveness. NEH especially welcomes projects that explore the Muslim American and/or the Jewish American experience, including the history of Islamophobia and/or antisemitism.

NEH’s Support for the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative As a part of NEH’s partnership with the Department of the Interior on the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, NEH encourages projects that further public understanding and knowledge of the Federal Indian boarding school system. From 1819 through the 1970s the government of the United States operated a system of schools for Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children premised on a policy of coerced cultural assimilation. Native children were forcibly separated from their families and sent to attend federal Indian boarding schools, where they were frequently subject to harsh treatment and abuse. A number of these students died, and others never returned to their families and communities. Many were also deprived of their cultural inheritance. NEH encourages projects that document and explore the history of the federal Indian boarding schools as well as projects that contribute to Native and Indigenous cultural and language revitalization.

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B. Federal Award Information

1. Type of Application and Award NEH seeks new applications in response to this notice.

NEH will provide funding in the form of grants.

2. Summary of Funding

Award amounts You may request up to $100,000. This includes the sum of direct and indirect costs.

NEH anticipates awarding approximately $1,000,000 among an estimated 10 recipients.

NEH will award successful applicants outright funds, which are not contingent on additional funding from other sources.

NEH will not determine the exact amount available for funding until Congress makes official appropriations for FY 2025. NEH will issue awards subject to the availability of appropriated funds. NEH is publishing this notice as a contingency to ensure that NEH can process applications and issue awards in a timely manner, should sufficient funds become available.

Period of performance You may request a period of performance of 12 to 24 months with a start date between May 1, 2025, and September 1, 2025.

The period of performance is the time during which you may incur expenses to carry out the work under the award. It must start on the first day of the month and end on the last day of the month.

C. Eligibility Information

1. Eligible Applicants To be eligible to apply, your organization must be established in the United States or its jurisdictions as one of the following:

• a nonprofit organization recognized as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code

• an accredited institution of higher education (public or nonprofit)

• a state or local government or one of their agencies

• a federally recognized Native American Tribal government

Individuals and other organizations, including foreign and for-profit entities, are ineligible.

If your organization is eligible, you may apply on behalf of a consortium of collaborating organizations. If NEH selects your proposal for funding, you will be programmatically, legally, and fiscally responsible for the award.

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The recipient may not function solely as a fiscal agent but should make substantive contributions to the success of the project.

2. Cost Sharing NEH does not require cost sharing in this program.

Cost sharing refers to project costs that are covered with non-NEH funds. You may contribute voluntary cost share if the total project costs exceed the amount awarded by NEH. Voluntary cost share includes:

• cash contributions made to the project by you or a third party

• your unrecovered indirect costs

• in-kind contributions (non-cash contributions, such as property or services, that benefit the project and are contributed without charge) by you or a third party

While you may describe voluntary cost share in your budget justification, you should not include it on your Research and Related Budget. The Research and Related Budget should only include funds you are requesting from NEH.

Peer reviewers will not consider any voluntary cost share in their evaluation of applications.

You must maintain auditable records of the source and use of cost share. See 2 CFR § 200.306.

Learn about types of funds NEH offers.

3. Other Eligibility Information You may submit multiple applications for separate and distinct projects under this notice. An individual may not serve as project director for multiple proposed projects under this notice.

You may revise and resubmit previously rejected applications. Submissions are subject to the application requirements and review criteria of the current competition.

Per 2 CFR § 200.403(f), you must not include the same project costs in more than one application for federal funding or approved federal award budget. If one application to NEH is pending, a second application for the same project costs, even if to a different program, may be ruled ineligible. However, you may submit multiple proposals for complementary aspects of the same overall project. If you are submitting complementary proposals to other NEH programs or government agencies, specify when and to whom in the Supplementary Cover Sheet for NEH Grant Programs. NEH may disallow costs or reject applications that include overlapping project costs. An individual’s level of effort cannot exceed 100% across multiple active federally funded awards.

NEH does not issue awards to other federal entities. If your project is so closely intertwined with a federal entity that the project takes on characteristics of the federal entity’s own authorized activities, it is ineligible. You may use funds from, or sites and materials controlled by, other federal entities in your project, but you may not use them as gifts to release federal matching funds.

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NEH does not provide financial assistance to foreign institutions or organizations. If you are an eligible domestic entity, you may apply for collaborative projects involving foreign organizations provided you do not use NEH funds for the purpose of issuing subawards to any foreign organization, as defined in 2 CFR §§ 200.1 and .331(a). You may obtain the services of foreign individuals and consultants to carry out programmatic activities on a fee-for-service basis, as specified in 2 CFR § 200.459. You may obtain goods and services from foreign vendors, such as in-country transportation services, in accordance with 2 CFR § 200.331(b). If you plan to submit an application involving international collaboration, contact program staff at dew@neh.gov.

Except for the rare cases covered by its late submission policy, NEH will not consider applications submitted after the deadline.

NEH will not consider incomplete, nonresponsive, or ineligible applications for funding.

NEH will not consider applications that exceed mandatory page limits or deviate from formatting instructions. See the Application Components Table.

D. Application and Submission Information

1. Application Package You must apply using Grants.gov Workspace or a Grants.gov system-to-system solution. You can find this funding opportunity in Grants.gov under number 20240905-AV. There is also a link on the program resource page.

Once you have located the funding opportunity in Grants.gov, you will find the application package under the “Package” tab. It includes a series of required and conditionally required forms. You will upload additional application components using the Attachments Form.

You must complete a multistep registration process prior to submitting your application. See D3. Unique Entity Identifier and System for Award Management.

Contact dew@neh.gov to request a paper copy of this notice.

2. Content and Form of Application Submission Your application will include a narrative, budget, and other forms and attachments. You will complete the forms within Grants.gov Workspace and upload other components into the Attachments Form. See the Application Component Table.

Application formatting Your application components must conform to the following formatting requirements, unless otherwise indicated:

• pages no larger than standard letter (8 ½" x 11”)

• at least one-inch margins on all sides for all pages

• a font no smaller than 11 points

In addition, NEH encourages you to format your components consistent with the following:

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• single-spacing

• a readable font such as Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, or Times New Roman

• any standard citation style (include citations in page counts)

Application Component Table NEH has assigned each application component one of the following designations:

• Required: You must submit this component.

• Conditionally Required: You must submit this component if your proposal meets the specified conditions.

• Recommended: NEH encourages, but does not require, you to submit this component.

• Conditionally required for recipients: You are encouraged but not required to submit this component when you apply. You may submit it if you receive an award.

NEH will not review applications missing any required documents or relevant conditionally required documents.

Do not include attachments other than those listed in the table in this notice. If you do, NEH will reject your application.

In addition, NEH has established page limits for some application components:

• Mandatory: You must not exceed the page limit.

• Suggested: NEH encourages, but does not require, you to abide by the page limit.

Note page limits and formatting instructions in this notice. NEH will not review applications that exceed mandatory page limits or deviate from formatting instructions.

Application Component File Name Designation Page limit Attachments 1: Narrative narrative.pdf Required 10

(mandatory) 2: Discussion program schedule and syllabus discussion.pdf Required 2 (suggested)

3: Preparatory program schedule and syllabus preparatory.pdf Required 2 (suggested)

4: Work plan workplan.pdf Required 5: Résumés of key project personnel resumes.pdf Required 2 pages per resume (suggested)

6: Evaluations evaluations.pdf Required for prior recipients

7: Letters of commitment commitment.pdf Recommended 8: Other supporting materials materials.pdf Recommended 50 (suggested) 9: Subrecipient budget(s) subrecipient.pdf Conditionally required

10: Federally negotiated indirect cost rate agreement agreement.pdf Conditionally required

11: Explanation of delinquent federal debt delinquentdebt.pdf Conditionally required for recipients

Grants.gov forms SF-424 Application for Federal Assistance - Short Organizational

Required

Supplementary Cover Sheet for NEH Grant Programs

Required

Project/Performance Site(s) Location Form

Required

Research and Related Budget and Budget Justification

Required

Attachments Form Required

Application Components: Attachments Each attachment must be a single PDF file. See the Attachments Form instructions for further guidance about file requirements. Read those instructions carefully, as Grants.gov will not accept files that do not meet the requirements.

Narrative Compose a comprehensive description of your proposed project. Your narrative should be succinct, well organized, and free of technical terms and jargon so that peer reviewers can understand the proposed project.

You must limit the narrative to ten single-spaced pages. Do not include an executive summary, cover page, or a table of contents. You may include images, charts, diagrams, footnotes, or endnotes if they fit within the page limit.

Organize your narrative using the following headings. Each section aligns with one or more review criteria NEH will use to evaluate your proposal.

Organize your narrative using the following section headings. Each section aligns with one or more review criteria NEH will use to evaluate your proposal.

Name the file narrative.pdf.

a. Summary of the project (aligns with all review criteria) Provide a one-paragraph summary of the scope, structure, format, and setting of the proposed preparatory and discussion programs. Briefly describe the wars you will cover, the topics and themes you will address, and the genres of humanities sources you will consider (such as historical writings, memoirs, military biographies, speeches and letters, philosophical writings, documentaries, fiction, and artworks). If you have previously received a Dialogues award, state that here.

b. Project development – prior recipients only (aligns with all review criteria) If you have previously received a Dialogues award, you must include this section in your narrative. Provide copies of the evaluations conducted of your previous project in Attachment 6:

Evaluations. All other applicants should skip this section.

Describe how the proposed project builds on past Dialogues work in its conceptual approach, design, and content, including lessons learned in earlier implementation of the project, and revisions based on discussion leader and participant evaluations. If needed, explain any revisions more fully in the relevant sections of the narrative.

c. Intellectual rationale (aligns with review criteria Intellectual quality and Design quality) State the project’s goals and intended outcomes. Discuss how the outputs will support the overall purpose of the Dialogues program. Explain the rationale for selecting the conflicts, themes, and humanities sources, and how they form a connected program of study. Identify the intended audiences and describe how the project’s format supports its aims.

d. Discussion programs for military veterans and others (aligns with review criteria Intellectual quality, Design quality, and Impact) Discuss the specific humanities content of the programs. Elaborate on the topics, themes, conflicts, and sources at the heart of the discussions. Identify the humanities sources and other resources you will provide the participants. Specify how you will use the humanities sources to address the central themes of the discussion programs. Indicate how multiple viewpoints, dialogic methods, and selected themes will enrich the discussions. Include examples of how you will use open-ended questions and sources.

Describe the intended participants of the discussion groups. The discussion groups could include solely veterans (including a subset of veterans such as students or residents of a group facility); civilians; military-affiliated persons; or any mix of these groups.

Describe the discussion program format, including the frequency and length of the sessions and the number of participants (per group and in total). If you plan to offer a pilot series, explain how you will design the pilot and then the subsequent discussion series.

Describe how you will publicize the discussion groups and how you will recruit the participants.

Describe the facilities for either in-person or virtual discussion programs, and any accommodations to address participants’ needs (such as mobility or child-care) for in-person convenings.

In Attachment 2: Discussion program schedule and syllabus, provide a schedule and syllabus for the discussion groups.

e. Preparatory program for discussion leaders (aligns with review criteria Design quality and Impact) Describe the specific goals, organization, and content of the preparatory program, and who will participate in it. Explain how you will recruit, select, train, and mentor or guide them throughout the preparatory and discussion programs. You may include more participants in your preparatory program than you ultimately select to lead your discussion programs. Include specific selection criteria, activities, and sufficient time and resources to ensure discussion leaders are well-prepared to guide deep and sustained discussion of the proposed themes and sources. Explain plans for the mentoring and guidance of discussion leaders, including how the project team would provide oversight and support to the selected discussion leaders during the discussion programs.

Outline the resources and preparation that would enhance discussion leaders’ understanding of the diversity of veteran and military experience. Discuss how you will model the practice of facilitating discussion and what methods and sources (including proposed sources for the discussion programs) you would use. Identify study guides or other resources you will make available to preparatory program participants. In Attachment 3: Preparatory program schedule and syllabus, provide a detailed schedule and syllabus for the preparatory program.

f. Project team (aligns with review criteria Intellectual quality and Design quality) Identify the roles and the expertise or experiential qualifications of the members of the project team, including the project director, scholars, consultants, and staff providing logistical or administrative support. If the project has an advisory board, identify the humanities scholars, veterans, and other individuals who will serve and describe how they would support the project.

You are required to submit résumés in Attachment 5: Resumes of key personnel.

Letters of commitment from leaders of the preparatory program and any key individual collaborators on the project are recommended as Attachment 7: Letters of commitment.

g. Institutional context (aligns with review criteria Design quality and Impact) Describe your mission, resources, and capacity to support the proposed activities. You may provide a letter of support from your institution in Attachment 7: Letters of commitment, but it is not required. If the project involves an academic course or the offering of course credit, NEH recommends you include a letter of support from the institution.

If the project involves collaboration or partnership with organizations, describe how their mission and resources would support the project. NEH recommends you include a letter of commitment from any individual consultant(s) or collaborating organization(s) in Attachment 7: Letters of commitment.

h. Evaluation (aligns with review criteria Intellectual quality, Design quality and Impact) Describe your plans for formative and summative evaluation of the preparatory and discussion programs, and the methods you intend to use. Your evaluation plan should address the thematic approach, humanities content, and other key elements of the program (e.g., structure, the host facilities). Discuss how your formative evaluation will inform the project. For instance, you might alter repeated discussion sessions based on feedback from participant surveys or other evaluative methods. If you plan to offer a pilot series, explain your plans for evaluating and building on it.

Attachment 2: Discussion program schedule and syllabus (required) Format this document as a chart or narrative. Indicate the specific themes and humanities sources to be discussed and any guiding questions for each session of your discussion series.

Outline the number, duration, format, and location of the discussion sessions.

This attachment has a suggested length of two pages. Name the file discussion.pdf.

Attachment 3: Preparatory program schedule and syllabus (required) Format this document as a chart or narrative. Describe the schedule (duration of the program and its sessions), activities, and readings/resources for the preparatory program for discussion leaders. Include activities and resources for modeling and practicing the facilitation of discussions of humanities sources.

This attachment has a suggested length of two pages. Name the file preparatory.pdf.

Attachment 4: Work plan (required) Your work plan should reflect major activities described in your narrative, the project dates identified on the SF-424 Application for Federal Assistance - Short Organizational, and the Research and Related Budget.

Describe the activities or steps that you will undertake during the period of performance to achieve your stated objectives. Include such activities as the planning phases of the project, the recruitment and selection of both discussion leaders and participants, and the implementation and evaluation of the preparatory and discussion programs. Use a timeline that includes each activity and identifies responsible staff. Explain how outcomes from one activity will carry over into the next. For each activity, specify the roles of the project team members involved, and if applicable, those of any external organizational partners.

Your work plan may be formatted as a narrative, chart, or timeline. Name the file workplan.pdf.

Attachment 5: Résumé(s) of key project personnel (required) Include a résumé for the project director(s), the leaders of the preparatory program, and any consultants on the project. Include the following information, as relevant:

• 14Texperience organizing and/or leading humanities-based discussion groups

• 14Texperience serving in the military and/or working with veterans and members of the military

• 14Tother relevant humanities work, professional activities, experience as an educator, and publications

14TThis attachment has a suggested length of two pages per 14Trésumé14T. Name the file resumes.pdf.

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Attachment 6: Evaluations (required for prior recipients) Prior Dialogues recipients must include evaluations and/or surveys from the prior project’s preparatory and discussion programs.

Name the file evaluations.pdf.

Attachment 7: Letters of commitment (recommended) Include letters of commitment from consultants, leaders of the preparatory program, and organizational partners. This attachment may also include a letter of support from the applicant institution. If you are proposing the adoption of an academic course, NEH recommends that you include this optional letter of support.

Name the file commitment.pdf.

Attachment 8: Other supporting materials (recommended) You may include any additional information, such as syllabi for courses, supporting research, or other relevant information here. This attachment has a suggested length of no more than 50 pages. Name the file materials.pdf.

Attachment 9: Subrecipient budget(s) (conditionally required) If your project includes subawards, you must provide a separate Research and Related Budget and budget justification for each subrecipient.

Download a fillable PDF of the Research and Related Budget form from the NEH website for each subrecipient. You must open and complete this form in Adobe Reader 8.0 or higher rather than in your web browser.

Prepare a budget and budget justification for each subrecipient using the same instructions in this notice, with a few exceptions:

• Enter the subrecipient’s Unique Entity Identifier, organization name, and period of performance start and end date (these fields will not prepopulate).

• For “budget type,” check “Subaward/Consortium.”

If your subrecipients have a federally negotiated indirect cost rate, you must honor it. If they do not have a federally negotiated indirect cost rate, they may negotiate a rate with you consistent with 2 CFR § 200.414 or use the de minimis rate.

Rather than attaching related documents (budget justification, additional personnel, additional equipment) to the form itself, you will separately convert each document into a PDF and https://www.neh.gov/sites/default/files/inline-files/RR_Budget10_3_0-V3.0.pdf https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=d22b09774a679ad264cf0098635dabb8&mc=true&node=pt2.1.200&rgn=div5#se2.1.200_1414 combine all subrecipients’ budget forms and related documents into a single document. Do not attach portfolios containing multiple PDFs.

NEH cannot accept security-enhanced PDFs (e.g., XFA files, PDFs that include password-protection, encryption, digital signatures). Remove these features (or “flatten” these files) before merging them into a single PDF and uploading it to the Attachments Form.

Name the file subrecipient.pdf.

Attachment 10: Federally negotiated indirect cost rate agreement (conditionally required) If your organization is claiming indirect costs and has a current federally negotiated indirect cost rate agreement, provide a copy of the agreement. If applicable, provide the indirect cost rate agreements for subrecipients claiming indirect costs. If you and your subrecipients are requesting the de minimis rate, you do not need to submit this attachment.

Name the file agreement.pdf.

Attachment 11: Explanation of delinquent federal debt (conditionally required for recipients) If your organization is delinquent in the repayment of any federal debt, explain why. Provide evidence that you have entered into a repayment agreement with the Internal Revenue Service, if applicable, and that you are current on all payments due. Examples of relevant debt include delinquent payroll or other taxes, audit disallowances, and benefit overpayments. See OMB Circular A-129.

Name the file delinquentdebt.pdf.

Application Components: Grants.gov Forms

SF-424 Application for Federal Assistance – Short Organizational (Grants.gov form) This form requests basic information about your institution, the proposed project, and key contacts. Items 1, 2, and 4 will be automatically filled in; leave item 3 blank.

5. Applicant Information a-d. Provide your organization’s legal name, address, and web address. Select the applicant type that best describes your organization from the drop-down menu.

e-f. Provide your organization’s employer/taxpayer identification number (EIN/TIN), and Unique Entity Identifier assigned by the System for Award Management. If you do not know your identifier, contact your grant administrator or chief financial officer. See D3. Unique Entity Identifier and System for Award Management.

g. Provide your congressional district with your two-character state abbreviation followed by your three-character district number. For example, if your institution is located in the 5th congressional district of Alabama, enter “AL-005.” If your institution is in a state or U.S.

jurisdiction that does not have districts, enter “000” in place of the district number. If your institution is outside the U.S., enter “00-000.”

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6. Project Information

a. Provide your project’s title. It should be brief (no more than 125 characters, including spaces), descriptive of the project, and easily understood by the general public. If NEH funds your project, the agency may retitle your project for clarity in internal and external communications, including the public announcement of awards. Regardless, you may use your preferred title when carrying out the project.

b. Provide a brief description of your project (no more than 1,000 characters, including spaces).

You should write the description for a nonspecialist audience, clearly stating the importance of the proposed work and its relation to larger issues in the humanities. This description will appear on the cover sheet of your application and will serve as a project abstract during the review process. If funded, this description will also appear in NEH’s database of funded projects.

c. State your project’s period of performance start and end dates. Your project must start on the first day of a month and end on the last day of a month. See B2. Summary of Funding for allowable periods of performance.

7. Project Director Provide the project director’s name, title, and contact information. The project director is responsible for the programmatic aspects and day-to-day management of the proposed project.

You must notify the NEH Office of Grant Management immediately if you need to change project directors.

If the project director is not employed by the applicant organization, you must have a formal written agreement with the project director that specifies an official relationship between the parties even if the relationship does not involve a salary or other form of remuneration.

8. Primary Contact/Grant Administrator Provide the name, title, and contact information for the official responsible for the administration of the award (e.g., negotiating the budget and ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions of the award).

As a matter of NEH policy, the project director and primary contact/grant administrator must not be the same person.

The grant administrator (also called the “institutional grant administrator”) functions as the representative of the recipient organization. This individual should have authority to act on the organization’s behalf in matters related to the administration of the award. The institutional grant administrator must sign or countersign financial reports and prior approval requests such as budget revisions, extensions to the period of performance, and changes in key personnel.

NEH will address official correspondence (for example, the offer letter or Notice of Action) to the institutional grant administrator and copy the project director.

9. Authorized Representative Provide the name, title, and contact information for the authorized organization representative (AOR) who is submitting the application on behalf of the institution. This person, often called an “authorizing official,” is typically someone from the Office of Sponsored Projects, or the institution’s president, vice president, executive director, or board chair. The institution’s Grants.gov E-Business Point of Contact must designate the AOR. The AOR’s signature must match the contact’s name. See the Grants.gov Online User Guide.

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Supplementary Cover Sheet for NEH Grant Programs (Grants.gov form)

1. Project Director Select the project director’s major field of study…