DLI-FEL 2023 and 2024 NOFO.pdf

Notice of Funding Opportunity

Dynamic Language Infrastructure – Documenting Endangered Languages Fellowships

Funding Opportunity Number: 20230913-FN

Funding Opportunity Type(s): New

Federal Assistance Listing Number: 45.160

Application Deadline:

September 13, 2023 September 11, 2024

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Executive Summary The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Research Programs is accepting applications for Dynamic Language Infrastructure – Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI- DEL) Fellowships program, offered in partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF). This program supports individual scholars pursuing research on documentation and analysis of one or more endangered languages. DLI-DEL Fellowships provide recipients with time for fieldwork to record languages; digital archiving; transcription and annotation; linguistic and ethnographic analysis of findings; and preparation of print or digital research publications. Anticipated products may include, but are not limited to, lexicons, grammars, databases, peer-reviewed articles, and monographs.

Funding Opportunity Title Dynamic Language Infrastructure – Documenting Endangered Languages Fellowships

Funding Opportunity Number 20230913-FN Federal Assistance Listing Number 45.160 Optional Draft Deadlines July 26, 2023, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time

July 10, 2024, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time Application Deadlines September 13, 2023, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time

September 11, 2024, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time Anticipated Award Announcements April 2024 and April 2025 Anticipated FY 2024 and 2025 Funding Approximately $300,000 per year Estimated Number and Type of Awards Approximately 5 grants per competition Award Amounts $30,000 to $60,000 Cost Sharing/Match Required No Period of Performance 6-12 months, full-time or up to twenty-four months part time. Applicants may work between half time and full time on a project, or in combination.

2023 applicants must start on or after May 1, 2024, but no later than September 1, 2025.

2024 applicants must start on or after May 1, 2025, but no later than September 1, 2026.

Eligible Applicants Individuals; see C. Eligibility Information.

Program Resource Page https://www.neh.gov/program/dli-del-fellowships Pre-Application Webinar There will be a pre-recorded webinar posted to the program resource page by July 7, 2023.

Meet With NEH Staff Schedule a 30-minute meeting with staff to chat about your project, answer your questions, and discuss suitable NEH programs you can apply for.

Weekly Q&A Meetings Interested applicants are welcome to join weekly Open Q&A meetings for DEL and other Research Programs, held every Tuesday from 3:00 pm-4:00 pm ET.

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Table of Contents

Executive Summary ................................................................................................ i

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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. Grants.gov Registration Process

4. Submission Dates and Times

5. Intergovernmental Review

6. Funding Restrictions

7. Other Submission Requirements

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

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A. Program Description

1. Purpose The Dynamic Language Infrastructure–Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL) program is an interdisciplinary partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to advance scholarly knowledge concerning endangered human languages.

Preserving the broad range of human languages is vital for understanding human behavior and cognition. Yet roughly half of the world's seven thousand languages are endangered and at risk of extinction. These endangered languages constitute an irreplaceable resource, not only for the communities who speak them, but also for scientists and scholars.

The great variety of these languages represents a vast, largely unmapped territory for which linguists, anthropologists, and cognitive scientists can chart and study the full capabilities and limits of the human mind. Each endangered language embodies unique local knowledge of the cultures and natural systems in the region in which it is spoken. These languages are important sources of evidence for filling in the record of the human past.

Since the discipline of linguistics is a responsibility of both NSF and NEH, addressing the imminent loss of linguistic knowledge is a major concern and a priority for both agencies, which have jointly supported this program since 2005. Learn more about the DLI-DEL initiative in H.

Other Information.

DLI-DEL Fellowships prioritize the collection, analysis, and publication of highly endangered language corpuses or extinct languages closely related to highly endangered languages. NEH funding supports fieldwork and other activities relevant to the digital recording, documenting, archiving, and scholarly analysis of endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, databases, peer-reviewed articles, and monographs. The program aims to leverage advances in information technology and contributes to the development of the next generation of researchers. NEH expects that recipients will archive and maintain language documentation to ensure its long-term availability.

NEH invites applications from individual linguists, linguistic anthropologists, or sociolinguists, and encourages submissions from independent scholars and junior scholars. Applicants should demonstrate a history of collaboration with other scholars and/or community members.

Competitive submissions employ state-of-the-art documentation methods; embody exceptional research and rigorous analysis; and clearly articulate the level of endangerment of the language or languages to be studied.

Examples of previously funded DLI-DEL Fellowships may be viewed here.

See C3. Other Eligibility Information for detailed information on the types of projects that are supported in this program.

See D6. Funding Restrictions for unallowable activities.

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

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2. Background NEH offers this funding opportunity under the authority of 20 U.S.C. § 956. Awards are subject to the Dynamic Language Infrastructure – Documenting Endangered Languages Fellowships Terms and Conditions.

Since 2005, NSF and NEH have promoted this joint funding opportunity, originally named Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL). In 2019, the program was retitled Dynamic Language Infrastructure – Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL). While previously all applications were solicited, submitted, and reviewed by NSF, NEH has now assumed these responsibilities for DLI – DEL Fellowships. For information about other funding opportunities through this NSF – NEH partnership, see H. Other Information

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.

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.

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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 – like 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.

B. Federal Award Information

1. Type of Application and Award NEH seeks new applications in response to this notice. You may revise and resubmit previously rejected applications.

NEH will provide funding in the form of grants.

2. Summary of Funding

Award amounts Successful applicants will receive a stipend of $5000 per full-time month. Stipends will be pro-rated for part-time work. The maximum award is $60,000 for the equivalent of twelve full-time months. The minimum award is $30,000, corresponding to the equivalent of six full-time months.

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

NEH anticipates approximately $300,000 to fund an estimated 5 recipients per competition.

NEH will not determine the amount available until Congress enacts the final budget for FY24 and FY25. This notice is subject to the availability of appropriated funds and is a contingency action taken to ensure that, should funds become available for this purpose, NEH can process applications and issue awards in a timely manner.

Period of performance The period of performance is the span of time during which you are committed to working on your NEH-supported project. You should request a period of performance that suits your schedule and the needs of your project. It should be determined by the complexity of the project, the amount of work to be completed, and the support of the speaker community. Requesting a shorter period of performance will not improve your chances of receiving an award.

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DLI-DEL fellowships support individuals who work between half time and full time, or a combination of both, on their projects. You may combine part- and full-time work and you can split your term into two separate active periods. The active periods must be at least three months each.

Your period of performance must:

• be the equivalent of between six to twelve months of full-time work. Your stipend will be pro-rated to reflect part-time work.

• be completed within 24 months of your start date.

You must:

• devote at least 50% of your time to the project if you work part time.

• carry a reduced class load when you are working part time if you teach while holding an award.

• forgo teaching and other major activities if you work full time.

Your period of performance must start on the first day of the month and end on the last day of a month.

If you apply for this deadline…. Your project must start between… 2023 May 1, 2024, but no later than September 1, 2025.

2024 May 1, 2025, but no later than September 1, 2026.

C. Eligibility Information

1. Eligible Applicants You must be one of the following to be eligible:

• A U.S. citizen residing domestically or abroad

• A foreign national who has lived in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least the three years prior to the application deadline

Foreign nationals who take up permanent residence outside the United States any time between the application deadline and the end of the period of performance will forfeit their eligibility.

Leaving the U.S. on a temporary basis is permitted.

2. Cost Sharing Cost sharing is not required in this program.

3. Other Eligibility Information

Resubmissions You may revise and resubmit previously rejected applications, which NEH will assess using the same review criteria it applies to the other applications in the current competition.

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Currently enrolled students While you do not need to have an advanced degree to apply, you are ineligible if you are currently enrolled in a degree granting program.

If you have satisfied all the requirements for a degree and are awaiting its conferral, you are eligible, but you must include a letter from the dean of the conferring school or your department chair attesting to your status as of the application deadline in Attachment 9: Degree conferral.

Application limitations You may compete concurrently in the following NEH programs (though you may hold an award from only one of these programs at a time):

• Fellowships

• Public Scholars

• Summer Stipends

• Fellowships for Digital Publications

• Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges &

Universities, and Tribal Colleges & Universities

• Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan

• NEH-funded fellowships at independent research institutions

Each competition has distinct application requirements. Follow the instructions in the relevant Notice of Funding Opportunity.

Projects previously supported by NEH You may not apply for funding for activities previously supported by any of the following programs:

• Fellowships

• Fellowships for Digital Publication

• Public Scholars

• Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and

Universities, and Tribal Colleges and Universities

• Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan

However, you may apply for funding for a project previously supported by a DLI-DEL fellowship or any other NEH program not listed above. In such cases, NEH will review the accomplishments from the previous award to determine whether the project warrants additional funding. If the current application includes work proposed in the previously-funded project, you must address the overlap in activities.

An NEH award for one stage of a project does not commit NEH to continued support for the project. Applications for each stage are evaluated independently.

Dissertation revisions You may seek funding for a project based on your completed dissertation. You must state in your narrative that you intend to revise your dissertation and explain how the proposed project moves beyond the original.

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Continuation of long-term projects You may apply for funding to support a new phase of a project previously supported by NEH. In such a case, NEH will review the accomplishments from the previous award to determine whether the project warrants additional funding. If the current application includes work proposed in the previously-funded award, you must address the overlap.

Organizations NEH issues awards in this program to individuals. Organizations are not eligible. If you elect to have your stipend paid through your institution, it must remit all NEH funds to you and not take an institutional allowance or claim indirect costs.

Concurrent grants from other organizations You may simultaneously hold fellowships or grants from institutions other than NEH—including sabbaticals and grants from your own institution—in support of the same project during their period of performance, except for those listed in “Other restrictions” below.

Collaborative projects This program is designed for individual researchers; awards may not be divided. If you are seeking funding for more than one scholar in a collaborative project, each individual must:

• submit a separate application specifying their individual contribution (Peer reviewers will evaluate each application on its own merits.)

• independently meet the eligibility requirements

• clearly explain how the work will be divided and the extent to which each collaborator’s contribution depends on that of the other(s)

You are eligible to apply if you are working as part of a collaborative team but seeking funding only for yourself. Collaborating scholars affiliated with an eligible institution should consider applying for a Senior Research Grant through the DLI-DEL program offered by NSF in collaboration with NEH’s Division of Preservation & Access. See Related funding opportunities.

If more than one member of a collaborative project applies for this individual award, NEH will consider each application separately.

Other restrictions

• NEH will consider only one submission per applicant for each deadline.

• If you submit multiple applications (including submitting to the wrong funding opportunity number or making corrections/updates), NEH will accept your last validated submission, under the correct funding opportunity number, prior to the deadline as the final and only acceptable application.

• You may not accept or hold multiple NEH individual awards in the same fiscal year.

• You may not hold two or more NEH individual awards with overlapping periods of performance (for example, an Awards for Faculty and a Summer Stipend) or in support of the same activities. NEH will not delay the period of performance beyond the stated timelines of this NOFO to accommodate overlapping individual awards. See B2.

Summary of Funding.

• You may not serve as the project director or key personnel on a project supported by an NEH institutional award, an NSF DLI-DEL Senior Research Grant, or NSF DLI-DEL during the period of performance of an NEH individual award that you hold full time.

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• If you plan to work part time on your DLI fellowship, and you also work on a project supported by an NEH or any other organization’s institutional award as either a project director or participant, your activities must not exceed your regular, full-time load across all projects and activities (including non-NEH work activities).

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.

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.

NEH will not consider applications that exceed 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 20230913-FN. 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 to submit your application. See D3.

Grants.gov Registration Process.

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

If you are deaf or hard of hearing, you can contact NEH using telecommunications relay at 7-1-1.

2. Content and Form of Application Submission Your application will consist of a series of forms included in Grants.gov Workspace and other components that you will prepare and upload to the Attachments Form. The Application Components Table below will help you prepare a complete application. You are not required to submit a budget.

You must submit all required and relevant conditionally required components. NEH will not review applications missing any required documents or relevant conditionally required documents.

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

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Do not include attachments other than those required or conditionally required in this notice. If you do, NEH will reject your application.

Unless the instructions specify otherwise, your attachments must conform to the following formatting requirements:

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

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

• a font size no smaller than 11-points

• single-spacing

• recommended fonts: Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, or Times New Roman

• any standard citation style is acceptable; citations are included in page counts.

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.

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.

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Application Component Table Application Component File Name Designation Page limits Grants.gov forms SF-424 Application for Federal Assistance - Individual

Required

NEH Supplemental Information for Individuals Form

Required

Project/Performance Site(s) Location Form

Required

Attachments Form Required Attachments 1: Narrative narrative.pdf Required 3 (mandatory) 2: Work plan workplan.pdf Required 1 (mandatory) 3: Bibliography bibliography.pdf Required 1 (mandatory) 4: Résumé resume.pdf Required 2 (suggested) 5: Samples samples.pdf Required 2 (suggested) 6: Speaker community support speakercommunity.pdf Conditionally required 2 (suggested)

7: Data management plan dmp.pdf Conditionally required

1 (suggested)

8: Archive support archive.pdf Conditionally required

1 (suggested)

9: Degree conferral degreeconferral.pdf Conditionally required

10: Explanation of delinquent federal debt delinquentdebt.pdf Conditionally required

SF-424 Application for Federal Assistance – Individual This form requests basic information about you and your proposed project. Items 1, 2, and 4 will be automatically filled in; leave item 3 blank.

5a-d. Applicant Information a.-c. Provide your name, telephone number, email address, and mailing address. You must include an email address in the “Email” field, even though it is not highlighted as a required field. NEH will use this address to notify you of the outcome of your application.

Provide your mailing address. Note: Your ZIP code must include the four-digit extension preceded by a hyphen. If you do not know your four-digit extension, use “-0000” (four zeros).

Indicate your citizenship status with an “X.”

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

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institution is outside the U.S., enter “00-000.” If you do not have an institutional affiliation, enter your primary congressional district.

6. Project Information

a. Project Title: Provide your project’s title. It should be brief (no more than 125 characters, including spaces). Successful applications typically have titles that are descriptive of the project and easily understood by the general public. Avoid using a title that requires clarification by the subtitle. When possible, include places and dates indicating a project’s scope. NEH reserves the right to retitle funded projects for clarity when announcing its funding decisions and in its own reports and communications, but you may use your preferred title for any award products.

b. “Project Description.” Provide a brief overview of your project for a nonspecialist audience and explain the intellectual merit of the proposed work to linguistics and the broader humanities. Include no more than three ISO language codes, if applicable, (https://www.ethnologue.com/codes) and identify the most general family (or families) to which the specific languages(s) belong. If applicable, mention the location where the data will be archived. This description will appear on your application cover sheet and will serve as a project abstract during the review process. Do not exceed one thousand characters, including spaces. If you exceed one thousand characters, Grants.gov may reject your application or cut off your project description at the thousand-character limit.

c. Proposed Project: List the start and end dates for your project. Your period of performance must start on the first day of the month and end on the last day of the month. Because award amounts depend on the number of months of work that you specify, the dates that you enter here will determine the maximum amount of your award. Your period of performance must be the equivalent of between six and twelve months. You can work full time, part time, or a combination, but you must finish within 24 months of your start date. If you are splitting your period of performance into two separate active periods, each period must be at least three months in duration.

For more information on allowable time periods and on how NEH calculates awards, see B2.

Summary of Funding. You may change your start and end dates if you receive an award, but the change must not increase the approved amount.

7. Signature By clicking on the “I Agree” box, you certify the following:

1) You are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, declared ineligible, or voluntarily excluded from participation in covered transactions by any federal department or agency, and have not—within the three years preceding the submission of this application— been convicted of or had a civil judgment rendered against you for commission of fraud or a criminal offense in connection with a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or a contract under a public transaction; for violation of federal or state antitrust statutes; for commission of embezzlement, theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false statements, or receiving stolen property; had any public transactions terminated for cause or default; and are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a governmental entity with any of the preceding offenses. See 2 CFR 180 and 3369.

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taxes, delinquent child support payments, and delinquent payroll taxes for household or other employees. See OMB Circular A-129.

3) You will comply with the Dynamic Language Infrastructure - Documenting Endangered Languages Fellowships Terms and Conditions.

Click the “Save” button at the top of the form to save your work and return to the main menu.

NEH Supplemental Information for Individuals Form This form requests additional professional information about you, your institution (if affiliated), and your references.

Field of Project Using the drop-down menu, indicate the field(s) of your project. You may select one, two, or three fields. If you select more than one, list the primary field first. Program staff will consider this information when assigning your application to a review panel.

Project Director Field of Study Using the drop-down menu, choose the field of study that best describes your area of expertise.

Address Information Indicate whether the address that you provided on the Application for Federal Assistance SF 424

– Individual form is your home or work address.

Institutional Affiliation If you are not affiliated with an institution of higher education, click “No” and continue to the Status section.

If you are affiliated with an institution of higher education, provide the information for that institution. Include your institution’s Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), omitting hyphens. You can request this number from your institution’s sponsored research office. NEH uses it to identify your institution to peer reviewers.

Status NEH does not require applicants in this program to be professional scholars. However, for processing, indicate your status as a junior scholar or senior scholar. NEH uses the following definition of junior and senior scholars.

• You are a junior scholar if you received your highest formal degree fewer than seven years ago.

• You are a senior scholar if you are more than seven years beyond the day you received your highest degree.

Reference Letters Provide the name, email address, and affiliation of your letter writer. Enter only one email address. If you provide two email addresses for your reference, NEH will be unable to contact them. You are responsible for providing accurate email addresses. NEH’s grants management system will use the addresses exactly as you enter them.

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See D7. Other Submission Requirements for instructions and deadlines for submitting reference letters and confirming NEH has received them.

Nominating Official Leave this section blank.

Project/Performance Site Location(s) Form Provide the primary location and any other locations where the project activity will occur during the period of performance. This form allows for the collection of multiple performance sites. If you need to add more project/performance site locations than the form allows, enter the information in a separate file and add it to the "Additional Locations" section. Instructions for each requested data element may be viewed by positioning your cursor over the blank field.

Include only sites where you are reasonably certain at the time of application that you will conduct project activities. It is possible to add sites later. For “Organization,” you may substitute a brief description of locations that do not have a formal organizational name (e.g., "Residence of applicant” or “Interview site in Chicago to be determined”).

Enter congressional districts using the two letter state abbreviation followed by your three-character district number. For example, if your work site is in the 5th congressional district of Alabama, enter “AL-005.” If it 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.

The form has space for 300 sites. If your project includes additional locations, list them in a separate document. Save the document as a PDF named additionallocations.pdf and attach it under “Additional Locations.”

Attachments Form This form accommodates up to fifteen attachments. Attachments must be in Portable Document Format (.pdf). Convert all non-PDF files (e.g., Word, Excel, images) to PDFs. If an attachment contains multiple documents, merge them into a single file. Occasionally, converting a document to PDF may alter its length. Ensure that all attachments are within the mandatory page limits, if applicable.

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 (“flatten” these files) before uploading to Grants.gov.

Consult the Application Components Table to name and sequence your attachments so that NEH can easily identify them. Grants.gov may reject your application if:

• file names exceed 50 characters

• multiple files have the same name

• file names include characters other than the following: A-Z, a-z, 0-9, underscore, hyphen, space, period, parentheses, curly braces, square brackets, ampersand, tilde, exclamation point, comma, semicolon, apostrophe, at sign, number sign, dollar sign, percent sign, plus sign, and equal sign https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

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Grants.gov may accept and validate your application even if you are missing required components or have formatted them incorrectly. You must ensure that you have formatted, attached, and submitted all required components correctly. If you have not, NEH may reject your application as incomplete or nonresponsive.

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Attachment 1: Narrative (required) Compose a narrative to provide 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 your proposed research project.

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

Use the following section headings for your narrative. NEH has aligned each section of the narrative with a corresponding review criterion. Refer to E1. Review Criteria.

Significance, impact, and endangerment (corresponds primarily to Review Criterion 1)

Describe the intellectual merit and significance of the proposed project, including its value to linguistics and humanities scholarship. State the project’s goals and its expected impact. Explain how your analysis and publication(s) will complement, challenge, or expand relevant existing studies in the field.

Discuss the level of endangerment of the language(s) you will investigate and the urgency of the need for documentation and analysis. Discuss any special linguistic, historical, cognitive, cultural, or social significance of the language(s).

Organization, concepts, and methods (corresponds primarily to Review Criterion 2)

Describe the research design of your project. Explain the basic ideas, problems, or questions examined by the study and how your research will address them. Describe and justify the methods employed for documentation and analysis. Discuss the theoretical framework of your project and explain how your proposed analysis will advance it.

Explain your concepts and your terminology. Where appropriate, describe and discuss primary and secondary sources. Use Attachment 5: Samples to illustrate the content and presentation of the final product.

Describe and explain what parts of the study you will conduct on-site with speaker communities and what parts will be conducted elsewhere. If relevant, discuss collaboration and other arrangements made with the speaker community and refer to the related documentation of support included in Attachment 6: Speaker community support. Such arrangements may include the training of native speakers in the practice of linguistics and the production of resources useful to their community.

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Identify the data your project will generate and include, if relevant, a statement about public access and sharing provisions to ensure the protection of privacy, confidentiality, security, intellectual property, and other rights or requirements.

If you are proposing a dissertation revision, state this and explain the changes, revisions, and expansions you plan, and how they will improve the original work.

If you are seeking support for a subsequent phase of a project previously supported by NEH or NSF, NEH will review the accomplishments from the previous award to determine whether the project warrants additional funding. If the current application includes work proposed in the previously-funded award, this overlap in the work plans must be addressed.

Competencies, skills, and access (corresponds primarily to Review Criterion 3)

Explain your competence or background in the area of your project. Where appropriate, include a brief overview of the results of previous related work supported by NEH or NSF, with or without collaborators.

If the proposed project includes parts that were supported by a prior NEH award, explain in the work plan what you accomplished during the previous award, how this project differs from past proposals, or from your dissertation, and identify the new areas of research and investigation.

NEH will review the previous award to determine whether the project warrants additional funding. If the current application includes work proposed in the previously funded project, explain and justify this overlap.

If the area of inquiry is new to you, explain your reasons for working in it and your qualifications to do so. Specify your level of competence in any language needed for the study.

Where relevant, specify the arrangements for access to archives, collections, or institutions that contain resources necessary for your work.

Check C3. Other Eligibility Information for additional information on eligibility.

Final product and dissemination (corresponds primarily to Review Criterion 4)

Describe your plans for research publication(s) and any archived documentation. Explain how your work will be evaluated prior to publication, such as through peer review. Discuss how the grant products will reach and benefit the intended audience(s). Describe the dissemination of the publication(s) and other materials (e.g., in print or digitally) and how they can be accessed.

You must provide a rationale for projects resulting in publications that will be written in a language other than English and explain how this will affect access and dissemination.

If the project has a website, provide the URL. If the research during the fellowship includes language documentation, indicate the repository for the newly generated data. If applicable, refer to the documentation of support from the relevant archive (Attachment 8: Archive support) and the data management plan (Attachment 7: Data management plan).

You must limit your narrative to three pages. Name the file narrative.pdf.

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Attachment 2: Work plan (required)

• Provide a work plan (in three-month or fewer increments) describing what will be accomplished during the period of performance, where you work, and how you will spend your time. Indicate the current state of the project and the part or stage of it that will be supported by the fellowship.

• Indicate how many months of support you are requesting and whether you propose full-or part-time work, or a combination of the two, during the period of performance. You must work at least half time on the NEH project. If you describe activities beyond the period of performance, clearly delineate what you will do during the time that will be funded by NEH.

• If you are proposing part-time work, specify the fraction of time you will devote to the project (e.g., half-time or three-quarters time) during the period of performance.

Indicate if you will receive course releases.

• Indicate if you are proposing a non-continuous period of performance with two active periods of at least three months.

• Describe the part or stage of the project that the award will support. Indicate if any parts are complete. If you will not finish the project during the period of performance, state when you expect to complete it. For example, if you are proposing a publication (e.g., book or article), indicate when you plan to submit it for publication and when you expect it to appear.

• Indicate where you will work and, if more than one location is involved, how long you will spend in each place.

• If you are seeking funds as part of a larger collaborative project, clearly explain how the work will be divided and the extent to which each collaborator’s contribution depends on that of the other(s).

If you will be relying on institutional support or other sources to assist your work, describe this and whether funding is in place. If you and another researcher are seeking funds for the same project, clearly explain how the work will be divided and the extent to which each collaborator’s contribution depends on that of the other.

Your work plan should not depend heavily on factors beyond your control, such as the receipt of outside reviewers’ reports from a publisher. If you plan to submit a publication manuscript before the end of the period of performance, explain what additional work will be required and why it merits support. The work plan will be primarily considered under review criterion 5.

The work plan must not exceed one page. Name the file workplan.pdf.

Attachment 3: Bibliography (required) Your bibliography should consist of primary and secondary sources that relate directly to the project. Include works that pertain to both the project’s substance and its theoretical or methodological approaches to give a well-rounded representation. Reviewers will use the bibliography to assess your knowledge of the subject area. The bibliography will be primarily considered under review criterion 2.

Any standard bibliographic format is acceptable. Items referenced in the narrative should appear in the bibliography.

The bibliography must not exceed a single page. Name the file bibliography.pdf.

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Attachment 4: Résumé (required) Do not submit a narrative biographical statement instead of a résumé. Include the following information:

• current and past positions

• education: list degrees, dates awarded, and titles of theses or dissertations

• fieldwork and language documentation experience

• awards and honors: include dates. If you have received prior support from NEH or from the DLI-DEL program (formerly the DEL program), indicate the dates of these awards and the products that resulted from them

• publications: include full citations for publications and presentations

Your résumé will be considered primarily under review criterion 3.

The suggested length of this attachment is two pages. Name the file resume.pdf.

Attachment 5: Samples (required) Append examples that illustrate the methods and results of your linguistic work, such as: sample dictionary or grammar entries; interlinear glossing; questionnaires; task protocols; records; or other materials. Samples will be considered primarily under review criterion 2.

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

Attachment 6: Speaker community support (conditionally required) For projects focused on living or moribund languages, include documentation demonstrating that you have consulted with and requested the appropriate permissions from the relevant parties in the communities where research.