IATDH NOFO 2025.pdf

Notice of Funding Opportunity

Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities

Funding Opportunity Number: 20250213-HT

Funding Opportunity Type: New

Federal Assistance Listing Number: 45.169

Application Deadline: February 13, 2025

Applicants to NEH for awards with expected issuance dates on or after October 1, 2024, should be aware of revisions to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (2 CFR Part 200) effective from that date. All NEH awards issued on or after October 1, 2024, will be subject to the revised regulations. You may incorporate these changes into your applications now. Additional information is available at https://www.neh.gov/grants/manage/2024-Revisions-to-2-CFR-200.

Ensure your SAM.gov and Grants.gov registrations and passwords are current.

It may take several weeks to register with SAM.gov and Grants.gov.

NEH will not grant deadline extensions for lack of registration.

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20250213-HT

Executive Summary The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities is accepting applications for the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program. The program supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through this program, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars and practitioners using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities.

Funding Opportunity Title Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities

Funding Opportunity Number 20250213-HT Federal Assistance Listing Number 45.169 Deadline for Optional Draft December 12, 2024, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time Application Deadline February 13, 2025, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time Anticipated Award Announcement August 2025 Anticipated FY 2025 Funding Approximately $850,000 Estimated Number and Type of Awards Approximately 5 grants Award Amounts Up to $250,000 Cost Sharing/Match Required No Period of Performance Up to 36 months. Projects must start between

October 1, 2025, and September 1, 2026.

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

See C. Eligibility Information for additional information.

Program Resource Page https://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/institutes-advanced-topics-in-the-digital-humanities

Pre-Application Webinar Pre-recorded webinars will be posted to the program resource page by December 2, 2024, 5:00 p.m.

Eastern Time.

Published November 25, 2024 https://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/institutes-advanced-topics-in-the-digital-humanities

Table of Contents 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 The Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH) program supports national or regional (multistate) training opportunities for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities.

Through this program, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars and practitioners using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities.

The IATDH program funds institutes that:

• share ideas and methods that advance humanities research and teaching through the use of digital technologies by bringing together humanities scholars and digital technology specialists from different disciplines

• introduce digital humanities topics to scholars who lack digital expertise, resources, or capacity in their home institutions

• encourage reflection on, and the interpretation and analysis of, new digital media, multimedia, and text-based computing technologies, as well as their integration into humanities scholarship and teaching

• build inclusive communities of inquiry and contribute to participants’ intellectual vitality and professional development

• teach current and future generations of humanities scholars to ethically design, develop, and use digital tools and environments for scholarship

• devise and apply new and creative uses for technology that offer valuable models for research in the humanities and sharing these methodologies and approaches with scholars and teachers

• consider how digital scholarship and tools can enhance access and create more equitable and inclusive approaches to community engagement, including for people of color and others who have been historically underserved and marginalized

This program aims to bring together humanities scholars, advanced graduate students, librarians, archivists, museum staff, computer scientists, information specialists, and others to learn about new tools, approaches, and technologies, and to foster relationships for future collaborations in the humanities. NEH encourages you to develop proposals for multidisciplinary teams that include the necessary range of intellectual, technical, and practical expertise. You may draw partners and collaborators from outside of your institution, from the private and public sectors, and may include appropriate specialists from within and outside the United States. You should consider the practical applications of the institute topic and the ethical implications of its subject for humanities research, teaching, or public programming.

You must host your institutes in the United States or its jurisdictions and must provide facilities for scholarship and collegial interaction. Host organizations include, but are not limited to, colleges, universities, learned societies, centers for advanced study, libraries or other repositories, as well as cultural or professional organizations.

There is wide latitude in the content, form, and audiences of institutes. They may focus on a particular computational method, such as network or spatial analysis, or target the needs of a particular humanities discipline or audience. You could offer it only once or multiple times to different audiences or cohorts. They may be as short as a few days or as long as six weeks. You may host it at a single site, multiples sites, or virtually. The format and duration should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic and be appropriate for the intended audience. The institute’s topic may be targeted for novice audiences or be for participants with some background and expertise in the proposed topic. All participants must be engaged in the same format simultaneously unless modifications are needed for accessibility accommodations.

You may schedule your institutes before or after regularly occurring scholarly meetings, during the summer months, or during appropriate times of the academic year. You may include compensation and travel expenses for the institute faculty and staff as well as stipends and/or travel expenses to the participants in your budget, as appropriate.

Institutes may address a wide range of topics, such as, but not limited to:

• digital scholarly communication and publishing

• advanced geospatial applications

• artificial intelligence and its appropriate use in text, sound, or image analysis

• physical computing, such as three-dimensional printing and wearable computing, and its implications for humanities research and public engagement

• immersive and virtual environment design for humanities research, or for computer gaming or simulations as applied to the humanities

• data design and visualization of humanities topics and research

• creative approaches to implementing digital humanities methods at institutions with specific needs, such as community colleges, liberal arts colleges, or minority-serving institutions

• innovative approaches for engaging public audiences with digital humanities

• high-performance computing or supercomputing applicable for humanities research and teaching

• critical algorithm studies

• analysis of and research on the impact of digital media and culture on society, including the intersection of digital methodologies and race, gender, class, and ability

You may consider working with the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. If you are interested in working with the National Library of Medicine you must contact Jeffrey Reznick, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, at jeffrey.reznick@nih.gov and include a letter of commitment in your application.

Your budget must not include costs to support federal agencies or employees in any capacity (for example, fees paid to or travel expenses for NIH staff).

If NEH funds your project, you must submit a “lessons learned” white paper. See F3. 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.

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Program Outputs and Outcomes The outputs of a successful Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities award may include, but are not limited to:

• A cohort of humanities scholars and practitioners trained to use digital technology in their research

• Related curriculum and open educational resources that were developed for and used in the professional development opportunity

The outcomes of a successful IADTH project will be an increase the number of humanities scholars and practitioners using digital technology in their research and broad dissemination of knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities.

Describe your project’s outcomes and outputs in the “Impact and evaluation” section of the Narrative attachment. If you receive an award, NEH will assess your performance based on the outputs you identify in the proposal. See F3. Reporting.

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.

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 https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?hl=false&edition=prelim&req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title20-section956 https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=236bb02f01d2e050f7a5b60c88a67066&mc=true&node=pt2.1.200&rgn=div5 https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=236bb02f01d2e050f7a5b60c88a67066&mc=true&node=pt2.1.200&rgn=div5 https://www.neh.gov/general-terms-and-conditions-awards-organizations-grants-and-cooperative-agreements-issued-january-2022 https://www.neh.gov/general-terms-and-conditions-awards-organizations-grants-and-cooperative-agreements-issued-january-2022 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-1998-title20/pdf/USCODE-1998-title20-chap26-subchapI-sec952.pdf https://securegrants.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx https://www.neh.gov/about https://www.neh.gov/news/american-tapestry-weaving-together-past-present-and-future 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 study antisemitism and/or Islamophobia in the context of the digital age and specifically the spread of online antisemitism and/or Islamophobia.

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.

Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most powerful technologies of our time and will have profound consequences for civil rights and civil liberties, safety and security, and democratic values. Questions about the ethical, legal, and societal implications of AI are fundamentally rooted in the humanities, which include ethics, law, history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, media studies, and cultural studies. Indeed, NEH’s founding legislation tasks the agency with making the American people “masters of their technology and not its unthinking servants.” In October 2023, NEH launched a new agency-wide initiative, Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence, to support research projects that seek to understand and address the ethical, legal, and societal implications of AI. NEH is particularly interested in https://www.neh.gov/unitedwestand https://www.neh.gov/bsi https://www.neh.gov/bsi https://www.neh.gov/AI https://www.neh.gov/AI projects that explore the impacts of AI-related technologies on truth, trust, and democracy;

safety and security; and privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties. This grant program is one of eight NEH programs that are part of NEH’s Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence initiative. To learn more about the initiative, and to ensure you are applying for the most appropriate program, please see our page about the AI initiative.

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 $250,000. This includes the sum of direct and indirect costs.

NEH anticipates awarding approximately $850,000 among an estimated 5 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 up to 36 months with a start date between October 1, 2025, and September 1, 2026.

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 https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/search-for-tax-exempt-organizations https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/search-for-tax-exempt-organizations https://ope.ed.gov/dapip/#/home https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/01/28/2022-01789/indian-entities-recognized-by-and-eligible-to-receive-services-from-the-united-states-bureau-of

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.

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

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

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

Voluntary cost sharing 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, do not include it on your Research and Related Budget. The Research and Related Budget should include only 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 Institutions may submit multiple applications for separate and distinct projects under this notice.

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Project directors and co-directors may submit only one application to this program per deadline.

Degree candidates may not serve as project directors or co-directors, but may serve in other project roles. Individuals may serve as team members in more than one IATDH application per deadline.

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.

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 odh@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 20250213-HT. 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.

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

Contact odh@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 attachments must be PDFs and 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 attachments consistent with the following:

• 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.

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. List of project personnel personnel.pdf Required 2: Narrative narrative.pdf Required 10

(mandatory) 3: Work plan and course outline workplan.pdf Required 5 (suggested)

4: Biographies biographies.pdf Required One paragraph per person (mandatory)

5: Letters of Commitment letters.pdf Conditionally required

One page per letter (suggested)

6: Evaluations and description of updates evaluations.pdf Conditionally required

7. Data management and sharing plan datamanagement.pdf Required 2 (suggested)

8: Subrecipient budget(s) subrecipient.pdf Conditionally

9: Federally negotiated indirect cost rate agreement agreement.pdf Conditionally

10: Explanation of delinquent federal debt delinquentdebt.pdf Conditionally

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 Certification Regarding Lobbying

Conditionally

Standard Form-LLL “Disclosure of Lobbying Activities”

Conditionally

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.

Attachment 1: List of project personnel (required) List all project personnel and visiting faculty along with their institutional affiliations, if any, and clearly identify the project director and any co-directors (i.e., J.B. Smith, Smallville College, Project Co-Director). Project directors are responsible for the programmatic aspects and day-to-day management of the proposed institute. Project personnel are members of the team, such as institute faculty, who carry out programmatic activities. The names on this list should match the names mentioned in the Staff, faculty, and consultants section of the narrative. NEH uses this list to ensure that prospective reviewers have no conflict of interest with the proposals that they will evaluate.

Name the file personnel.pdf.

Attachment 2: Narrative (required) 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 a table of contents. You may include images, charts, diagrams, footnotes, and endnotes if they fit within the page limit.

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

Nature of the request Provide a one-paragraph summary at the start of your application that includes:

• The project title and its thematic or topical focus.

• The institute’s format (in-person, hybrid, or virtual) and duration (e.g. one or two weeks).

• The specific number of participants the program will accommodate.

Significance (aligns with review criteria 1 and 3)

• Describe the institute’s intellectual significance for the humanities for a general audience.

• Discuss the national or regional needs that the institute will serve.

• Include the institute’s intended audience, its potential impact on digital humanities practices, and the ultimate audience that it will benefit.

• Clarify the degree to which this institute will build on past work or break new ground.

Describe how this institute relates to others of a similar nature that currently exist or have occurred in the past, including ones not supported by this funding opportunity.

Consult the white papers from past NEH-funded institutes for information and context.

Curriculum and work plan (aligns with review criterion 2)

• Describe the curriculum’s design and content and explain how it will achieve the institute’s stated goals.

• Explain how the institute’s curriculum and duration reflect the subjects taught and the educational needs or levels of the participants.

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• Summarize discussion topics and presentations, include assigned and recommended readings, and identify other resources and materials you will use.

• Indicate the attendance requirements; the time, location, duration, and structure of the program; and required facilities.

• Considering the variety of academic and professional schedules across the country, justify the proposed dates and location for your institute as related to your targeted participants.

• Describe how you will provide appropriate resources, including stipends and/or travel expenses for and communicate with participants before, during, and after the institute.

• Identify risks, such as staff attrition and travel restrictions, and note how they might affect the overall schedule. Describe strategies to mitigate these risks, such as moving from an in-person to an online institute.

Participants (aligns with review criteria 1 and 3)

• Provide details about your recruitment strategies, including your planned use of social media, as well as any outreach activities to particular communities of humanities faculty members and professionals.

• Describe how you will ensure that the institute attracts a diverse applicant pool, including those from historically underrepresented communities and individuals with disabilities.

• Describe how you will select participants for the institute.

• Prior IADTH recipients only: Indicate the number of applications received and number of participants selected for your most recent institute. Provide copies of all participants’ final evaluations from that institute in Attachment 6: Evaluations and Description of Updates.

Institutional profile (aligns with review criterion 4)

• Provide general information about your institution(s) and explain the chosen venues.

• Describe any special facilities—such as laboratories, humanities centers, libraries, or collections—available to participants.

• For all-virtual or hybrid institutes with a virtual component, describe the digital resources, such as digitized research collections, databases, virtual laboratory space, and online toolsets that the participants will have access to.

• If all or a component of the proposed institute will be residential, discuss provisions for housing. Describe your plans to accommodate the needs of participants with disabilities.

• If all or a component of the proposed institute will be virtual, describe the learning platform and other technical requirements needed to facilitate the teaching and learning environment. Describe your plans to accommodate the needs of participants with disabilities.

Staff, faculty, and consultants (aligns with review criterion 4)

• Identify the principal faculty, visiting lecturers, technical experts, and support staff.

Describe their roles, responsibilities, and qualifications.

• If the institute involves undergraduate or graduate students as staff, describe how it will provide opportunities for them to participate in the intellectual activities of the institute.

Applicants proposing institutes with virtual components should describe the team members’ experience with designing and delivering online learning.

• In Attachment 4: Biographies, include one-paragraph biographies from all staff and visiting faculty.

• In Attachment 5: Letters of commitment, include letters of commitment from institute instructors other than the project director or co-project director, regardless of institutional affiliation.

• Prior IADTH recipients only: Explain how your prior experience has shaped the current proposal. This may be woven into your narrative or included in Attachment 6:

Evaluations and description of updates.

Impact and evaluation (aligns with review criterion 5)

• Discuss the institute’s intended results, its impact on digital humanities scholarship or teaching, and plans for wider dissemination.

• Describe plans to facilitate discussion and collaboration among participants after the initial learning opportunity, including listservs, channels, websites, or forums.

• Explain how you will make the curriculum available to an audience beyond the institute participants.

• Describe your evaluation strategy (before, during, and after it takes place), including the use of qualitative and quantitative measures, and how it will involve the participants and the participating organizations. Evaluation activities should measure how the project addresses its broader goals as defined in the “Significance” section. (For information on evaluating professional development programs, consult the Guide to Evaluating Professional Development from the Centers for Disease Control.)

You must limit the narrative to ten single spaced pages. Name the file narrative.pdf.

Attachment 3: Work plan and course outline (required) Your work plan should reflect major activities described in your narrative and the project dates identified on the SF-424 Application for Federal Assistance - Short Organizational and the Research and Related Budget.

Describe the planning and implementation of all institute activities and identify who is responsible for completing those tasks. Include a schedule and a course outline for the institute.

Depending on the project, the work plan could be organized by type of activity or by period of time (for example, three-month periods). Include enough detail to demonstrate that you have thoroughly considered each step necessary to host a successful institute, such as participant recruitment, application review, curriculum development, preparation of materials, program evaluation, and post-institute activities. The course outline should identify the major topics of instruction for each session, with faculty leaders, possible readings, activities, or assignments.

Your work plan has a suggested limit of five pages. Name the file workplan.pdf.

Attachment 4: Biographies (required) Provide a one paragraph biography for personnel identified in Attachment 1: List of project personnel. Explain how each individual’s technical competence and/or humanities qualifications will enable them to fulfill their responsibilities. You must not submit CVs or resumes, or NEH will deem your application nonresponsive and reject it.

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If you plan to hire new staff using grant funds, provide a detailed job description for any open positions.

Your biographies must not exceed one paragraph per person. Name the file biographies.pdf.

Attachment 5: Letters of commitment (conditionally required) NEH strongly recommends that you include letters of commitment from institute instructors and cooperating institutions.

If you are collaborating with National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health you must include a letter of commitment from an appropriate official. The project director does not need to provide a letter of commitment. Elected government officials, NEH staff, and current members of NEH’S National Council on the Humanities may not serve as letter writers.

Letters of commitment have a suggested length of one page each. Name the file letters.pdf.

Attachment 6: Evaluations and description of updates (conditionally required) Project directors of previously funded IATDH awards must provide a detailed summary of the project team’s evaluation plans from their previous offering. Assess the effectiveness of those plans for achieving goals of their institute and for advancing participant learning.

Provide an explanation of how your experience as directors has shaped the institute currently being proposed (unless this explanation is included in the narrative). Include copies of all participants’ final or summative evaluations of the most recent institute. You do not need to include the interim or formative evaluations of the prior offering in this attachment.

Name the file evaluations.pdf.

Attachment 7: Data management and sharing plan (required) Prepare a data management and sharing plan (DMSP) for your project team to consult during and beyond the project’s period of performance that expands upon the Impact and evaluation section in Attachment 2: Narrative. IATDH projects may generate data such as curriculum, bibliographies, reports, articles, websites, or open educational resources. Individual research projects produced by the participants in the IATDH do not need to be included in the DMSP.

Address the following topics in the DMSP:

• Identify the types of data that your project might generate and/or collect and eventually share with others, and under what conditions it will be generated and collected. Discuss, as relevant, policies about public access and sharing provisions to ensure protection of privacy, confidentiality, security, intellectual property, and other rights or requirements.

• Describe who will manage and maintain data and metadata, and how they will do it, including the physical and cyber resources and facilities. (These can include third-party facilities and repositories.)

• For projects involving partnerships with industry or other user communities, discuss how you will share and manage data with partners, institutional affiliates, and other major stakeholders.

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• Explain any factors that might impinge on your ability to manage data, such as legal or ethical restrictions on access to non-aggregated data.

• Describe the mechanism(s) for sharing data and/or making it accessible to others, including how you will assure timely access to data.

• Discuss other types of data-related information you will maintain and share (for example, how it was generated, analytical and procedural information, and the metadata).

Include and explain costs stemming from data management in your budget justification.

Your data management and sharing plan has a suggested length of 2 pages. Name the file datamanagement.pdf.

Attachment 8: 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 they may 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 combine all subrecipients’ budget forms and related documents into a single document. Do not attach portfolios containing multiple PDFs. Name the file subrecipient.pdf.

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 9: 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.

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

Name the file agreement.pdf.

Attachment 10: Explanation of delinquent federal debt (conditionally required) 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.”

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 the month and end on the last day of the month. See B2. Summary of Funding for allowable periods of performance.

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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…